Tag Archives: Hacking

The crypto market has just witnessed its worst month in 2023 in terms of exploits, with criminals carting away assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars through various attacks. Blockchain security firm CertiK revealed in a tweet that bad actors stole approximately $363 million across more than 14 incidents. #CertiKStatsAlert🚨 Combining all the incidents in November we’ve confirmed ~$363M lost to exploits, hacks and scams This makes November the most damaging month this...

Amid efforts to reclaim over $46 million in stolen assets, DeFi platform Kyber Network has received a stunning ultimatum: forfeit total control of both the company and protocol, and all stakeholders will be made whole. Via-on chain messaging on Thursday, the platform’s anonymous hacker demanded “complete executive control over Kyber,” alongside temporary ownership and control of its governance mechanism, KyberDAO, to enact governance changes at will. The New ‘Kyber Director’...

After being robbed of $26 million in crypto earlier this month, trading firm Kronos Research is reaching out to their hacker to negotiate. The company has offered to drop all legal charges if the hacker returns 90% of the stolen funds, leaving him ~$2.5 million to keep. The Kronos Research Hack Kronos made its offer through an Ethereum transaction message to the hacker’s blockchain address on Monday – a common method for directly negotiating with anonymous crypto thieves. “We...

South Korean law enforcement revealed that hackers from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), also known as North Korea, impersonated government agencies and journalists in South Korea to steal crypto. The hackers were said to employ email phishing techniques to carry out the dubious act on unsuspecting victims. DPRK Hackers Reportedly Focused on Stealing Crypto The South Korean National Police Agency said that North Korean hackers seemed to target people’s crypto...

Crypto cybersecurity firm Unciphered has unearthed a decade-old crypto wallet bug affecting browser-based wallets generated between 2011 and 2015. The bug may allow nefarious actors to steal up to $2.1 billion from wallets on various networks, including Bitcoin (BTC), Dogecoin (DOGE), Litecoin (LTC), and Zcash (ZEC). Discovering An Ancient Bug In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the Unciphered team explained that they’d accidentally discovered the bug during a...

Over 175 different tokens with valuations exceeding $10,000 were stolen as part of a massive hack against the U.S.-based crypto exchange Poloniex on Friday, according to on-chain data. Since earlier today, estimates of the funds stolen in the hack have expanded to $125 million. What Hackers Took From Poloniex According to an X post from Nansen, some of the largest Ethereum-based outflows from Poloniex in the past 24 hours have included $11 million in Tether USD (USDT), and...

According to the latest report from Immunefi, from January to October 2023, over $1.41 billion has been lost to hacking and fraudulent activities in 292 specific incidents. In October 2023 alone, losses amounted to approximately $22.2 million, primarily attributed to hacking and fraud. The most frequently targeted blockchain networks during the period were BNB Chain and Ethereum, accounting for 83.3% of the total losses among targeted chains. Immunefi disclosed that BNB Chain...

In a recent revelation, Elastic Security Labs has uncovered a sophisticated cyber intrusion by North Korean hackers believed to be associated with the Lazarus group. This incident, tracked as REF7001, involved the use of a new macOS malware named Kandykorn, which has been specifically designed to target blockchain engineers involved in cryptocurrency exchange platforms. North Korean Hackers Target Crypto Engineers with Discord-Distributed Malware Elastic Security Labs has...

In response to a substantial hacking incident on October 31, Unibot, a decentralized trading platform, has confirmed total compensation for users negatively impacted by the event. Despite a recent decrease in the value of Unibot tokens, the company remains confident of a strong recovery. Unibot Makes Traders Full As per reports, the attack led to a loss of approximately $600K, which Unibot has fully covered, incurring a significant cost of $1.78M for the company. The exploit...

Frax Finance, a prominent decentralized cross-chain protocol, has warned its users, urging them not to use the frax.finance and frax.com domains until further notice. The company’s founder, Sam Kazemian, has advised caution, emphasizing resolving the domain name issue before resuming normal operations. Frax Finance Faces Domain Hijacking The incident occurred early Wednesday when Frax Finance’s domain was hijacked. While the website currently points to the correct nameserver...