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Signature Bank in particular served the likes of Paxos Trust and Celsius and other major crypto firms that suffered as a result of the decisions taken by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and New York State Department of Financial Services.Meanwhile Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) reportedly handled over $5 billion of
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Coinbase said its Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) quickly stepped into the situation. Crypto company Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) confirmed a cybersecurity attack targeted at its employees. The company said it was briefly compromised by the so-called “0ktapus” hackers who struck many organizations in 2022. Some of the hackers’ victims
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Cryptocurrency scam sites are being targeted by other scammers to hijack their traffic and their possible earnings. A recently detected threat actor, named Water Labbu, is manipulating the users that are drawn to these sites as a source of revenue, injecting a malicious script as a tool for interacting with
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DeFi, and the decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) that govern it, “should also be subject to Union [anti-money laundering / counter terrorist financing] rules where they are controlled directly or indirectly, including through smart contracts or voting protocols, by natural and legal persons,” the text said. Source
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Thailand’s largest crypto exchange Bitkub has come under regulatory scrutiny from the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over falsifying and creating artificial trading volume on its platform.Thai SEC ordered legal action against the crypto exchange and two individuals alleging the crypto platform was involved in wash trading, a process
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This is the second part of my column about the crackdown on insider trading involving crypto. In the first part, I discussed the criminal indictment of Nathaniel Chastain, a former product manager at the OpenSea NFT marketplace. I also discussed the SEC’s allegations against former Coinbase employee Ishan Wahi, his
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It took a few years, but government crackdowns on “insider trading” involving digital assets have finally arrived. It’s about time! Insider trading occurs often in our securities markets, so it was only a matter of time before crypto and other digital assets would be exploited improperly by miscreants for financial
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Some users suspect the hack could be related to transactions on Magic Eden’s Solana-based non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, though the source of the exploit has yet to be confirmed. Magic Eden did not respond to CoinDesk’s request for comment, but tweeted a warning for users to revoke permissions from their
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Digital artist and popular non-fungible token (NFT) creator Mike Winkelmann, more commonly known as Beeple, had his Twitter account hacked on Sunday, May 22 as part of a phishing scam.Harry Denley, a Security Analyst at MetaMask, alerted users that Beeple’s tweets at the time containing a link to a raffle
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