The founders of the Friendsies NFT collection have pulled the rug. The rug pull comes less than a year after the project raised $5 million at an auction hosted by Christie’s on OpenSea.
The hype surrounding crypto just keeps on growing. But as always, with increasing public attention, those looking to capitalize on the ignorant are following close behind. Not to fear, however: government agencies are close behind. With the US and Canada’s joint Operation Cryptosweep targeting unregistered ICOs, the crypto community is...
A US federal grand jury recently indicted a former Amazon software engineer, who is accused of hacking into the data servers of Capital One. Paige Thompson is being charged with wire fraud and computer fraud, as well as abuse for the intrusion into data of over 30 companies, including Capital...
Harmony Protocol’s Horizon Bridge has been hacked, with about $100 million stolen. The team has contacted authorities and shut down the bridge. This is not the first time that a bridge has been hacked this year, with Ronin and Wormhole both suffering very expensive hacks. Harmony Protocol’s Horizon bridge has...
Crypto-related companies in China are being targeted by an espionage operator during various government-backed campaigns, according to a recently published FireEye Threat Intelligence report. The intelligence firm has determined with “high confidence” that a group of hackers known as APT41 is working cooperatively with the Chinese government. Previously, APT41 members...
Popular digital artist Beeple’s Twitter account was recently hacked The hackers managed to steal $400,000 worth of crypto funds by posting dubious phishing links via Beeple’s Twitter account Famous NFT artist Mike Winkelman, popularly known as Beeple’s Twitter account was recently hacked, resulting in users losing funds worth $70,000. Beeple’s...
Anonymous has uploaded a new video that targets Terra Form labs founder Do Kwon Anonymous group has pledged to expose Do Kwon’s crimes and bring him to justice as soon as possible. Popular hacktivist group Anonymous is back again and has uploaded a new video that pledges to expose Do...
The DeFi lending protocol Moola Market was recently hacked and exploited for $10 million. The attacker has returned most of the funds back to the protocol post-successful negotiations conducted by the firm. The moola market has become the latest victim of the “hacktober” mania. The Celo protocol market was recently...
In summary: February 2020 saw IOTA’s Trinity wallet exploited by hackers. $1.6 Million in IOTA was stolen during the hack. The dust had not settled when the Coronavirus crash of mid-March hit. IOTA’s recent price developments point to the digital asset erasing losses due to the two events. IOTA (MIOTA)...
In summary: KuCoin CEO, Johnny Lyu, has informed the crypto-verse that they’ve identified suspects behind the recent hack He explained that KuCoin is working with authorities to apprehend the suspects Another additional $64 Million in digital assets is out of the control of the hackers This brings the total to...
Quick take: KuCoin’s risk management system detected unusual crypto withdrawal activity beginning today, 2:51 am (UTC +8) The exchange soon confirmed it was a hack KuCoin CEO, Johnny Lyu, confirmed KuCoin has an insurance fund to cover all losses $150 Million in Bitcoin, Ethereum and other ERC20 tokens was taken...
Kyber Network identified and fixed a vulnerability in the front-end. The attacker managed to steal $265,000 through malicious code that was discreetly inserted into the Google Tag Manager. The Kyber Network team has promised to reimburse victims. Kyber Network has revealed that it has been the victim of an exploit...
