Tag Archives: Tornado Cash

According to the case filed on April 5 in a Texas District Court, the plaintiffs, with support from Coinbase, want the OFAC to settle the first two counts from its original complaint, which was filed last September. Popular public listed exchange Coinbase is supporting the new class that seeks a reversal of the Tornado Cash ban. With this, the US Treasury is faced with a renewed legal case targeted at its move to sanction the crypto mixer. The motion to remove the Tornado Cash ban was...

On-chain analyst Lookonchain detected an address tied to the exploiter of the Ethereum-based lending protocol sent 100 Ether (approximately $171,700) to a wallet associated with Lazarus Group’s mammoth Ronin network hack. While it is still unclear if the Euler exploiter is affiliated with the North Korean state-sponsored cyber threat group linked to the North Korean Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), the interaction is peculiar as many community members had previously...

Lendhub, a relatively small cross-chain crypto lending platform operating on HECO, was exploited to the tune of $6 million dollars earlier this January. Attack Possible Solely Due to Poor Coding The attack was carried out due to a poorly-executed removal of a deprecated IBSV cToken. Its replacement, which was already active, had an identical price point at the time, which allowed the unknown bad actor to manipulate the pricing and drain around $6 million worth of crypto from...

Privacy tools have always been heralded as a key to financial freedom in the crypto industry. In the Ethereum ecosystem, discussions surrounding the subject matter have revolved mostly around privacy-preserving transfers of ETH and mainstream ERC20 tokens. In a bid to improve the state of privacy on the network, its co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a stealth address system. “Last Remaining Challenge for Ethereum” The concept of Stealth addresses using elliptic curve...

The Office of Foreign Assets Control’s (OFAC) tryst with the crypto industry dates back to 2018 when it designated two Iran-based individuals of malicious cyber activity. There has been no looking back since. More recently, the bombshell announcement that the US Treasury Department banned American citizens from using Tornado Cash, has had industry leaders abuzz. While sanctions did reduce Tornado Cash’s activity, a recent report by Chainalysis shows that it is not easy to...

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The crypto market behaving erratically is nothing new, but absolutely no one saw such epic levels of fund mismanagement coming from established giants. The young industry’s turn to a more sordid state of affairs hit everyone by surprise, especially after the heady rush of the bull run last year. 2022 was marred by corruption and fraudulent activity. An industry that claims to have traceable and public transactions saw big bucks being funneled maliciously with much audacity...

While investigations are still ongoing, the case is rapidly developing. So far, the aBNBc token has lost over 99% of its value.DeFi protocol, Ankr, has reported a breach by a hacker that resulted in an unlimited minting of its token aBNBc. After minting six quadrillions of the token, the attacker exchanged 20 trillion aBNBc for BNB.On-chain analysis firm Lookonchain notes that the attacker then used a combination of Uniswap, Tornado Cash and several bridges to swap the BNB and get $5 million...

Alexey Pertsev – developer of the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash – will reportedly remain in jail until late February 2023. The Dutch Crime Agency (FIOD) arrested the man in August this year after the US Treasury Department previously sanctioned Tornado Cash for enabling money-laundering procedures. According to a recent CoinDesk coverage, Pertsev will stay in prison until at least February 20, 2023. The Dutch authorities were supposed to release the Russian software...