Tag Archives: Hacking

A large chunk of the bitcoins stolen from the infamous 2016 Bitfinex hack was moved by the hackers to an unknown wallet earlier today. Bitfinex 2016 Hacked Funds on the Move According to data from the live cryptocurrency transactions monitor Whale Alert, the hackers have moved over 64,000 BTC in 21 separate transactions. The first transfer was of 1 BTC, worth $38,750 at the time, perhaps as a test transaction. The hackers then made subsequent transfers of varying amounts. The...

NYC-based entrepreneur Dan Reich has recently regained access to more than $2 million worth of crypto left in a Trezor One hardware wallet with the help of renowned computer engineer and hardware hacker Joe Grand. In a YouTube video uploaded recently, the Portland-based hacker popularly known by his pseudonym “Kingpin” gave a comprehensive narration of how he cracked the wallet to recover the “lost” crypto assets. How it all Started Earlier in 2018, Dan Reich and his friend...

Earlier this morning, a mysterious video called “One World Cryptocurrency” was posted across numerous popular crypto/ finance YouTube channels – without the owners’ permission. The video has all the appearances of a giveaway scam. “One World Cryptocurrency” The minute-long video features promotion of a supposedly new BSC token called “One World Cryptocurrency” (Ticker: OWCY). It features a “contact address”, and a listed pre-sale price of “0.0001’ (no unit of account was...

The users of cross-chain protocol lashed out over an unsolved security vulnerability that appeared earlier this week and the platform’s failure to act. Later on, though, Multichain revealed that one whitehat hacker returned 259 ETH, worth approximately $813,000. The Multichain Exploit It all started when Multichain announced the existence of a flaw that made several accounts vulnerable to malicious entities. The team behind the protocol urged its users to revoke approvals for...

The digital asset exchange – CryptoCom – came up with an official statement regarding the latest attack on its platform. The company revealed that the incident affected nearly 500 people, but they were fully refunded. The Saga Had a Happy End In its most recent report, CryptoCom disclosed that it first found out about the issue in the early hours on Monday (January 17). The monitoring systems of the trading venue detected unauthorized activity on a small number of user...

A recent report by blockchain forensics company Chainalysis stated that cybercriminals in North Korea stole bitcoin and Ether, worth almost $400 million but still have millions worth of stolen cryptocurrency funds unlaundered. Almost $400 Million Theft Recorded in 2021 The Chainalysis report published January 13, 2022, stated that the funds were stolen following attacks on a minimum of seven crypto exchanges. Also, the company believes most of the attacks were possibly...

The rumors of a potential MetaMask governance token airdrop have been going rampant on Crypto Twitter for quite some time now. it appears that scammers are taking full advantage and have managed to lure several hundred users in their schemes. MetaMask is the most popular non-custodial wallet for Ethereum and it played a huge role in the DeFi summer of 2020. Ever since Uniswap airdropped its governance tokens, many decentralized projects are doing the same. Now, users are...

Visor – a Uniswap-based protocol specializing in NFT smart vaults – was recently exploited by hackers to withdraw 8.8 million vVISR tokens. The Visor team appears to be addressing the issue, but the token’s price has collapsed in the aftermath. Hacked For Millions Visor Finance called attention to the exploit over Twitter earlier today. Apparently, the hack targeted the vVISR staking contract. Flaws in the contract include a re-entry hack to double mint vVISR tokens,...

The self-described compounding yield optimizer – Grim Finance – has reported being hacked in a reentrancy exploit with the attacker swiping up to $30 million worth of Fantom tokens. The DeFi protocol took it to Twitter on Sunday to inform its users about the hack. The team described it as an “advanced attack,” in which the perpetrator exploited the project’s vault contract through five reentrancy loops. This enabled the attacker to fake five additional deposits into a vault...

Over the weekend, BitMart suffered a large-scale security breach. It can be counted as one of the most devastating attacks to date wherein the hackers managed to siphon off $196 million worth of cryptocurrencies after compromising a private key that opened two hot wallets. But the communities of Seychelles-based Huobi and Shiba Inu (SHIB) have announced support to assist BitMart. Huobi, Shiba Inu Communities Lends Support According to a recent development, Huobi has vowed to...