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CZ Says Binance Users’ Assets are Not Affected by Multichain Hack

Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the CEO and founder of leading crypto exchange Binance, announced that his company’s users, assets, and platform were unaffected by the recent hack on the cross-chain router protocol Multichain. The Binance boss tweeted that the exchange had finalized all asset swaps and closed deposits a while before the incident occurred. Binance Unaffected by Multichain Exploit On July 6, Multichain experienced abnormal outflows from its bridge contracts to an unknown...

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Bitfinex Returns Portion Of Assets Stolen From 2016 Hack

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has recovered some of the funds it lost after being hacked in August 2016. The recovered assets will be used to compensate holders of the exchange’s Recovery Right Tokens (RRTs), which were issued to impacted creditors after the security breach. How Much Was Recovered? As announced by Bitfinex on Thursday, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has returned $312,219.71 in cash and 6.917 in Bitcoin Cash (BCH) accumulated from...

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Canadian Teens Busted for Stealing $4M in BTC and ETH Pretenting to Be Coinbase Support: Report

Two teenage boys from Hamilton, Ontario, have been busted for allegedly stealing over $4 million worth of bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) from an American man through what authorities described as a “spear phishing attack.” According to local reports, Hamilton police started working with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force to investigate the boys in June 2023. A Spear Phishing Attack Const. Krista-Lee...

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Fraudsters Stole $2.27M Worth NFTs in June: PeckShield

NFTs continue to attract not only more users but also capture the eyes of fraudulent entities. Web3 threat actors have set their sights on digital collectibles, with millions of funds being lost through different scams and attacks. A new report suggested that such thefts in the NFT space declined in June but remain rampant. NFT Theft: June Edition Shedding light into the NFT crime landscape for the month, PeckShield’s analysis revealed that fraudsters stole approximately...

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$7.8 Billion Lost to Crypto Ponzi Schemes in 2022: Report

TRM Labs, a leading blockchain analysis firm focused on preventing cybercrime, has released a comprehensive report on the illicit sums lost to bad actors in the crypto space in 2022. The figures are quite notable, especially given the declining prices and interest in the market last year. Improved Cybersecurity Measures In spite of the plummeting value of various digital assets due to crypto winter and the myriad collapses that accompanied it, the number of scams and thefts...

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Arbitrum-Based DeFi Project Chibi Finance Rug Pulled: Over $1 Million Drained

In yet another case of a rug pull, Arbitrum-based Chibi Finance reportedly siphoned more than $1 million worth of various crypto assets. Notably, the protocol went live on Tuesday, but the developers managed to launder the stolen funds to other networks shortly after. On-chain analysis conducted by blockchain security platform CertiK revealed that Chibi devs deployed a malicious contract that enabled them to steal user funds from the protocol’s smart contracts. These funds...

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Man Involved in Twitter’s Infamous 2020 Hack Bags Five Years Jail Term for Crypto Theft

Joseph James O’Connor, a U.K. citizen and one of the perpetrators of the 2020 Twitter hack, has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in several cybercrime offenses. According to a press release by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Judge Jed S. Rakoff sentenced O’Connor for two sets of charges: conspiracy to commit computer hacking and the theft of cryptocurrencies via a SIM swap attack; his role in the 2020 Twitter hack,...

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Millions of XRP Stolen in Atomic Wallet Hack Leaking to Exchanges (Analysis)

Hackers who targeted Atomic Wallet earlier this month are laundering large sums of stolen XRP through centralized exchanges, on-chain data shows. According to xrpforensics on Twitter, the hackers began “heavily laundering funds,” on Monday, spawning new blockchain addresses to avoid blocklists established by crypto exchanges.  “We’re monitoring and working closely with exchanges to try and seize as much as possible,” said the team.  At least 280,000 XRP were sent to Binance,...

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Atomic Wallet Hackers Take Advantage of THORChain to Hide $35M

After making off with $35 million worth of ill-gotten crypto, the hackers who targeted Atomic Wallet earlier this month have covered their on-chain tracks using the cross-chain liquidity protocol THORChain. According to the crypto tracking platform MistTrack, the hacker’s address transferred 503 Ether (ETH) to THORChain over the past two days.  Those funds were then swapped for Bitcoin (BTC) and bridged into a Bitcoin address. In addition, much of the stolen ETH was converted...

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Atomic Wallet Hackers Used OFAC-Sanctioned Garantex to Launder Stolen $35M: Report

The crypto assets stolen during the Atomic Wallet hack have found their way to the sanctioned Russia-based cryptocurrency exchange Garantex, with the attackers trading the tokens for Bitcoin (BTC). According to a tweet from blockchain analytics provider Elliptic, the hackers, believed to be part of the North Korean notorious Lazarus Group, have turned to Garantex as several crypto exchanges are working together to freeze funds related to the hack. Atomic Wallet Hackers Turn...

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