Tag: hacks

Ledger was also targeted by hackers in Shopify's data breach.

A ransomware has affected users of over three apps in the past year and drained their wallets of hundreds of Bitcoin. The rat wants Bitcoin A new bug identified by researchers that mimics a crypto trading program is said to have affected thousands of users in the past year, a report on security publication...

If you were around in 2017, you likely remember the Parity wallet hack. Here's some context if you don't. Parity is an Ethereum infrastructure provider that was in 2017 known for its multi-signature wallet. Multisig is a technology that requires multiple key holders to sign off on transactions to verify them, preventing the stealing of one key to lead to the loss of...

EXMO says it is "assuming" the attacker had prior access to some of its hot wallet keys.

The incident saw losses of bitcoin, XRP, zcash, tether, ether and ethereum classic, according to early analysis.

Ledger, the popular hardware wallet, said today that data belonging to over 1 million customers was leaked on a hacker forum. Ledger users endure data leak Hardware wallet Ledger said today that details of a database compromised in June were dumped on RaidForums, an infamous online hacking forum, over the weekend....

The company has "regularly waved profits" for three years, the firm's CEO wrote Thursday.

In what seems to be a never-ending story, today the court-appointed Mt. Gox trustee, Nobuaki Kobayashi, announced the filing of a draft rehabilitation plan. Details on the plan have not been shared but are now being reviewed by the Tokyo District Court, according to a document posted on mtgox.com. This has been the first update to the site since March 2019, and...

Nexus Mutual's CEO, Hugh Karp, lost the tokens after an attacker gained remote access to his computer.

Hackers responsible for a 2016 Bitfinex theft moved close to $100 million of Bitcoin today after crypto prices reached an all-time high. Nearly $100 Million Moved The hackers responsible for this transfer stole a total of 120,000 BTC from Bitfinex in August 2016. At the time, the British Virgin Island-based exchange lost $72 million in the hack. At 2 pm ET on Nov....

The cybersecurity specialist foresees a rise in crypto crime ahead in 2021, as the COVID-19 epidemic hits national economies.

It appears we just saw our latest DeFi exploit/attack, but this one was much different than all the rest. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the rest of the crypto market spiked dramatically lower on Wednesday evening as buying pressure finally abated. The running theory is that due to it being Thanksgiving, the buying pressure that had come from institutional pressures was temporarily taken offline. Whatever...

Call it a hack or call it an exploit, yesterday an unknown attacker managed to drain $20 million from an Ethereum-based yield aggregator called Pickle Finance into their own address. This attack was quite different and much more complex than the previous DeFi exploits, though, leaving some to ask if it was an inside hack. What is Pickle...

Popular decentralized finance protocol Pickle Finance was hacked on Saturday.

Tokens could be included in a users traffic request, which would allow websites accessible through the Tor network to “intelligently prioritize which requests it answers.”

The exchange said customer funds are safe.

No one is safe from the ever-growing wave of decentralized finance (DeFi) exploits, not even prominent technologists and investors. Today, an up-and- coming DeFi protocol built on Ethereum by prominent Silicon Valley developers such as Yu Pan, a founding member of PayPal and the earliest Youtube employee, was attacked with a flash loan. This is the fifth flash loan attack of the past...

According to reports within the crypto community, Akropolis, an Ethereum-based DeFi lending platform, was attacked this week. The...

DeFi is nothing short of a revolution. Automated blockchain-based financial primitives open a world of possibilities to disrupt traditional finance and make it more accessible. This immense potential attracted a massive wave of users and investors to the space. In a matter of months, the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi protocols reached more than...

Some token projects say they're left holding the bag following a hack that drained the KuCoin crypto exchange of $280 million.