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ONE Keeps Trending Lower while Harmony Offers Hacker USD 1M in Bounty for Return of Funds
27.6.2022
The team behind the layer-1 blockchain Harmony (ONE) has offered the Horizon Bridge hacker USD 1m in bounty for the return of some USD 100m in stolen funds.
"We commit to a [USD] 1M bounty for the return of Horizon bridge funds and sharing exploit information," Harmony said in a Twitter post...
Anonymous vows to bring Do Kwon’s ‘crimes’ to light
27.6.2022
“There is no doubt that there are many more crimes to be discovered in your trail of destruction,” hacktivist group Anonymous said on its YouTube channel
White hat hacker attempts to recover 'millions' in lost Bitcoin, finds only $105
24.6.2022
“We didn’t make money, but we definitely made new friends," said Lavar Sanders, who originally purchased the Bitcoin in 2016
Call Of Duty Cheaters Are Getting Their Guns Taken Away
21.6.2022
Call of Duty is plagued with cheaters, but Activision’s Team Ricochet is always developing new tools to stop bad actors from exploiting Vanguard and Warzone to cheat. Now, Ricochet has implemented another anti-cheat measure as part of its “mitigation toolbox” that steals cheaters’ guns right from...
Anonymous hacker served with restraining order via NFT
9.6.2022
International law firm Holland & Knight served a defendant in a hacking case with an NFT that was created and airdropped by its asset recovery team
Don't click links: Crypto community responds to alleged Telegram ‘exposé’
8.6.2022
Telegram announced that the anonymous account's claims are “baseless” and are made to "get users to download malware."
Aurora pays $6M bug bounty to ethical security hacker through Immunefi
7.6.2022
Over $200 million worth of users' funds could have been at risk if the whitehat chose to exploit the vulnerability for personal gain instead of reporting it to developers
Hacker Used ‘Social Media Data Leak’ to Steal USD 660K in Crypto from 90 Victims - Police
4.6.2022
Police in Seoul, South Korea, have arrested and charged a 30-year-old man after officers reportedly found evidence that he may have stolen some USD 660,000 worth of crypto using data he harvested from a popular social media network....
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Hacker tastes own medicine as community gets back stolen NFTs
27.5.2022
The dev partner of the Solana-based NFT game raised the royalty to 98% from the usual 5%, resulting in the scammer listing the 25 stolen NFTs for sale, which were then bought back and returned
Report: Two South Koreans Paid in Bitcoin to Spy for North Korea
4.5.2022
South Korean law enforcement recently announced the arrest of a serving military captain and an operator of a cryptocurrency exchange on charges of spying for a North Korean hacker. In return for the acts of espionage, the two South Korean individuals were allegedly paid bitcoins worth a total...
Rari Fuze hacker offered $10M bounty by Fei Protocol to return $80M loot
1.5.2022
DeFi investigator BlockSec’s monitoring system detected a loss of more than $80 million — citing the root cause as a typical reentrancy vulnerability
Finance Redefined: Hacker bungles DeFi exploit, dYdx's decentralization goals, and more
22.4.2022
DeFi space saw the resurgence of Andre Cronje nearly a month after his departure announcement while dYdX has pledged to go fully decentralized by the end of the year
Hacker bungles DeFi exploit: Leaves stolen $1M in contract set to self destruct
22.4.2022
A hacker apparently so thrilled by a successful theft left behind over $1 million in a smart contract that was set to destruct, permanently ensuring the crypto could never be moved
Beanstalk Farms offers plea deal to perpetrators of $76M exploit
20.4.2022
Beanstalk Farms offered a whitehat bounty to exploiters and outlined its plans moving forward should it be unsuccessful in its plea
FBI Issues Alert Concerning Malicious State-Sponsored North Korean Hackers Targeting Crypto Firms
19.4.2022
On April 18, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Treasury Department, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) report concerning malicious North Korean state-sponsored cryptocurrency activity. According to the U.S....
FBI and CSIA issue alert over North Korean cyberattacks on crypto targets
19.4.2022
The cybersecurity agency believes that the threat from North Korean hackers will not go away unless crypto firms take necessary but simple steps to ensure their security
Beanstalk Hacker Drains USD 182M from Project, But Nets Only USD 80M
18.4.2022
Beanstalk, a decentralized credit-based stablecoin protocol, fell victim to a flash-loan attack over the weekend that saw the protocol exploited for USD 182m worth of crypto. However, the attacker managed to cash out 'only' USD 80m.
According to blockchain security firm PeckShield, the attacker...
OFAC Update Claims Ronin Hack Is Tethered to North Korea’s Hacker Syndicate Lazarus Group
15.4.2022
According to the U.S. Treasury and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the recent Ronin bridge hack may have been tied to the North Korean hacker syndicate called Lazarus Group. Federal law enforcement officials have tied the flagged ethereum address connected with the Ronin bridge exploit...
US Officials Tie North Korean Hacker Group to Axie's Ronin Exploit
14.4.2022
The U.S. Treasury Department alleged the North Korean hacking group called Lazarus is tied to a more-than-$600 million theft of cryptocurrency from the Axie Infinity-tied Ronin bridge
Call Of Duty Cheating Accusations Lead To Controversial 'Hacking Exam'
8.4.2022
Before YouTuber IShowSpeed was put under the spotlight for his toxicity, Jake Lucky, an esports commentator and the person responsible for highlighting Speed’s behavior, was also under public scrutiny. Lucky, who tried to exonerate an alleged Call of Duty: Warzone hacker with a lie detector test...