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Jun 1, 2021
2 min

Belt Finance Becomes The Latest DeFi Protocol To Lose Millions To An Opportunistic Hacker

Belt Finance, the platform that provides automated market making for decentralized finance (DeFi), has become the latest Binance Smart Chain-based decentralized finance protocol to lose millions to an opportunistic hacker. It has been reported by Rekt Blog that an attacker exploited a flaw in the way the protocol’s vaults calculate the value of its collateral, which helped to “add another notch to the now infamous flash loan exploit season on the BSC.” Rekt added: “Yet anothe

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Livecoin Halted Operations In The Aftermath Of Alleged Hacker Attack On Christmas

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Dec 29, 2020
2 min

Livecoin Halted Operations In The Aftermath Of Alleged Hacker Attack On Christmas

Livecoin, the Russian crypto exchange, has halted operations in the aftermath of an alleged hacker attack on Christmas day. It has been reported according to Livecoin’s main page that the exchange has suffered a “carefully planned attack” causing the platform to lose control of all of its servers, backend, and nodes. However, the exchange urged its customers to stop using its services including deposits, trading, and API. Livecoin’s main page reads: “We were not able to stop

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A Hacker Releases Personal Data For Thousands Of Users

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Dec 21, 2020
2 min

A Hacker Releases Personal Data For Thousands Of Users

A hacker, who breached hardware wallet provider Ledger’s marketing database earlier this year, has released personal data for thousands of users by prompting many to threaten the firm with a class-action lawsuit. It has been reported that the hacker has made all the information they obtained available online. This reportedly includes 1,075,382 e-mail addresses from users subscribed to the Ledger newsletter, and 272,853 hardware wallet orders with information including e-mail

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Hacker Steals $8 Million From The Personal Wallet Of Nexus Mutual CEO

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Dec 15, 2020
2 min

Hacker Steals $8 Million From The Personal Wallet Of Nexus Mutual CEO

Hugh Karp, the CEO of DeFi coverage platform Nexus Mutual, got hacked by an unknown hacker who stole $8 million from his personal wallet. It has been reported by disclosure by Nexus Mutual that the funds were drained on Monday (December 14) morning UTC by compromising Karp’s personal device, as the hacker managed to install a compromised version of MetaMask that tricked Karp into signing a transaction that redirected all his NXM tokens to an attacker-controlled address. At 9:

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An Unreleased Project Has Been Drained Of $15 Million

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Sep 29, 2020
2 min

An Unreleased Project Has Been Drained Of $15 Million

Eminence, an unreleased project being built by Yearn’s Andre Cronje has been drained of $15 million, as the decentralized finance (DeFi) community’s insatiable appetite for unaudited code has once again ended in tears and the loss of millions. It has been reported that Eminence was discovered by DeFi sleuths after the developer posted art teasers for the project to Twitter. He then headed to bed on September 28. However, excitement for the upcoming project quickly reached a f

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FBI, NY DFS, US HR Scrutinizing Massive Twitter Hack of Prominent Figures

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Jul 17, 2020
6 min

FBI, NY DFS, US HR Scrutinizing Massive Twitter Hack of Prominent Figures

The Federal Bureau of Investigation or FBI is leading an inquiry into the massive Twitter hack. According to a recent WSJ report, FBI’s San Francisco office said on Thursday that it has initiated an investigation after hackers accessed Twitter’s internal systems to hijack accounts of prominent figures such as US presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, former US President Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk and used them to solicit digital assets.

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A Ukrainian Hacker Got Caught Selling Information Gathered From Government Databases For Crypto

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Jul 11, 2020
1 min

A Ukrainian Hacker Got Caught Selling Information Gathered From Government Databases For Crypto

A Ukrainian hacker got caught selling confidential information gathered from Ukrainian central government databases for crypto. It has been reported by the Ukrainian Cyberpolice that a hacker whose identity was not disclosed was able to break into many government databases by compromising personal accounts of authorized staff. However, the hacker used brute force approaches to break into e-mail addresses and social media accounts. Through this simple method, he appears to hav

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Jul 8, 2020
2 min

Hacker Gang “Keeper” Establishes Interconnected Network To Steal Credit Card Data From Over 570 E-Co

A hacker gang named “Keeper” has established an interconnected network to steal credit card data from over 570 e-commerce sites, as they have profited around $7 million in crypto by selling card information through the dark web since 2017. On July 7, it has been reported by threat intelligence firm Gemini Advisory that the hacker group managed to create 64 attacker domains and 73 exfiltration domains. However, these domains were used to retrieve user credit card data from num

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Balancer DeFit Protocol Hacked Twice Within 24 Hours

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Jun 30, 2020
2 min

Balancer DeFit Protocol Hacked Twice Within 24 Hours

The Balancer DeFit protocol hacked twice within 24 hours, as first, it suffered a $500,000 attack, where the second attack claimed about $2,300 worth of Compound tokens (COMP). It has been reported that Hao, an engineer at DeBank, tweeted that an attacker was able to fool the Balancer system into thinking he was owed a significant portion of the COMP tokens stored in the decentralized exchange’s pool. Apparently this happened an hour ago, someone used dydx flashloan(again) an

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Jun 2, 2020
2 min

Hacker Steals And Leaks Database Of Daniel’s Hosting On The Dark Web

A hacker has stolen and leaked the database of Daniel’s Hosting (DH), the largest free web hosting provider in the darknet, and the home of several crypto-related forums and stores on the dark web. On May 31, it has been reported that the hacker, named “KingNull” claims to be part of the Anonymous collective and reportedly got the information after the second hacking suffered by DH on March 10, which resulted in 7,600 dark websites taken down. However, the fact forced the hos

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Hackers Attacking Multiple Supercomputers Across Europe To Mine Crypto

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May 18, 2020
2 min

Hackers Attacking Multiple Supercomputers Across Europe To Mine Crypto

Hackers have attacked multiple supercomputers across Europe last week to mine cryptocurrency, as clusters of supercomputers have been forced to shut down in order to investigate the intrusions. On May 16, it has been reported by ZDNet news report that these security incidents were reported in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland. Another possible attack occurred in a high-performance computer center in Spain. However, most of the attacks appear to have targeted universities. As p

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Hackers Encrypt Data of 5 US Law Firms While Demanding Crypto Ransoms

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Feb 4, 2020
2 min

Hackers Encrypt Data of 5 US Law Firms While Demanding Crypto Ransoms

Hackers compromised five United States law firms and demanded two 100 Bitcoin (over $933,000 at press time) ransoms from each firm. one to restore access to the data one to delete their copy instead of selling it According to data shared by cybersecurity firm Emsisoft, the hacker group called Maze already started publishing part of the data stolen from the aforementioned firms. Two of the five law firms were hacked within the 24 hours leading to Feb. 1. The hackers published

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Nathan Wyatt Extradited To US To Face Charges Over Corporate Extortion Racket

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Dec 21, 2019
2 min

Nathan Wyatt Extradited To US To Face Charges Over Corporate Extortion Racket

Nathan Wyatt, an alleged member of “The Dark Overlord” hacking collective, has been extradited to the United States to face charges over extortion racket. Great success story of capturing & extraditing cybercriminal from another country. In many cases, the suspect is in a different country than the victim so cooperation between law enforcement of both countries is crucial. https://t.co/fR631zzMGp #cybercrime #extortion #justiceporn — CipherBlade (@cipher_blade) December 20,

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Hackers Launched New Cryptojacking Campaign To Find Docker Platforms

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Nov 28, 2019
2 min

Hackers Launched New Cryptojacking Campaign To Find Docker Platforms

A group of hackers has launched a new cryptojacking campaign on November 24, scanning as many as 59,000 IP networks to find Docker platforms that have API endpoints exposed online. Hackers Mass-Scanning Web for Docker Platforms to Mine Cryptocurrencies https://t.co/2znBAxphwD A new hacking campaign is targeting Docker platforms that have API endpoints exposed online to mine Monero https://t.co/dUtxFPgeyq News pic.twitter.com/GHXrlZhpLp — CryptoPost (@crypto_PST) November

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