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18-Year Old GTA 6 Hacker Sentenced To Life In Hospital Prison
21.12.2023
The 18-year old hacker responsible for stealing and releasing dozens of clips of Grand Theft Auto 6 last year has been sentenced to life in hospital prison. He can only be released in the future if doctors decide he’s no longer a danger to others, the BBC reports. Read more
Spider-Man And Wolverine Devs Hit By Alleged Ransomware Attack
12.12.2023
Insomniac Games, the PlayStation-owned developer behind Marvel’s Spider-Man and the upcoming Wolverine, was reportedly breached by a ransomware gang that claims to have stolen employees’ personal data and unreleased information about its upcoming X-Men game.Read more
International Police Take Down Capcom Hackers
24.10.2023
A hacker gang that breached various high-profile companies like computer component manufacturer ADATA and video game publisher Capcom within the last several years has been arrested by an international police force, according to law enforcement agency Europol.Read more
CoinEx exchange suspected of being hacked as $27M worth of crypto moved
12.9.2023
A CoinEx hot wallet transferred $27.8 million of various tokens to a wallet with no previous history, leading experts to suspect a cyberattack
New York Man Admits to Billion-Dollar Bitcoin Hack From 2016, Pleads Guilty With Wife to Money Laundering
4.8.2023
In an unexpected revelation, Ilya Lichtenstein, 35, confessed to being the original hacker behind the 2016 cyberattack on crypto exchange Bitfinex, a theft that was once worth $4.5 billion. Lichtenstein made the admission while pleading guilty to laundering the stolen bitcoin in a Washington, D.C....
Report: Malware Brings Original Modern Warfare 2 On Steam Offline
28.7.2023
After a recent spike in interest as old servers were brought back online on Xbox, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II was taken offline earlier this week on PC over reports of malicious hacks. According to Techcrunch, players were getting attacked in the 2009 game via “hacked lobbies.”Read more
Open Zeppelin Reveals Top 10 Blockchain Hacking Techniques in 2022
17.3.2023
The first and second place bugs involved layer 2 scaling solution Optimism and vanity address generator Profanity
Darknet Market Solaris Hacked by Competitor, Elliptic Reveals
22.1.2023
A leading marketplace on the dark web, Solaris, has been hit by a rival, according to crypto analytics company Elliptic. The Russia-linked platform, which tried to occupy space vacated by the busted Hydra, is believed to have conquered up to a fifth of the illicit market before the hack. Solaris...
Bitcoin Mining Pool Btc.com Suffers $3 Million Cyberattack
27.12.2022
A major cryptocurrency mining pool has been hit by hackers earlier this month, the company who owns the pool revealed in an announcement. The incident resulted in the theft of digital assets belonging to the pool and its clients worth a combined total of $3 million. Chinese Authorities Launch...
Bitcoin.org owner reports site hit with 'absolutely massive' DDoS attack
5.7.2021
The attack comes just one week after a U.K. court ordered the website to stop hosting the Bitcoin white paper
CD Projekt Red Confess Hack Severity While Everyone's Distracted With E3
10.6.2021
It’s corporate PR 101: If you want people to miss your announcement, drop it at 5 p.m. on a Friday. Or, at the very least, wait until everyone’s looking at something else.Read more
Hotbit crypto exchange shuts down for maintenance after attempted hack
30.4.2021
The Chinese crypto exchange says funds are “SAFU” and that the emergency maintenance could take up to two weeks
Koei Tecmo Shuts Down Forums Following Data Hack
30.12.2020
The Japanese publisher Koei Tecmo announced over the Christmas holiday that some personal data from 65,000 users of its English language website was hacked, leading the company to take its US and UK websites offline for the time being.Read more
North Korea Denies All Allegations Related to Thefts from Crypto Exchanges and Banks
2.9.2019
The United Nations Security Council committee on North Korea stated that: The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea cyber actors were raising money for its WMD (weapons of mass destruction) programs, with total proceeds to date estimated at up to two billion US dollars. But, North Korea‘s...
UN Investigating 35 North Korean Cyberattack Instances in 17 Nations
14.8.2019
The United Nations experts have said that they are probing a minimum of 35 cyberattack incidents in as many as 17 nations carried out by North Koreans. As per The Associated Press reports, North Koreans are using cyberattacks for raising money illegally for the nuclear program. Moreover, they...
North Korea Has Amassed $2 Billion from Hacking to Feed is Weapon Program: UN Panel Reports
7.8.2019
North Korea is again in the limelight, but not for good reasons. As per the reports from the UN Panel, the huge scale cyber-attacks, hacking incidents, and crypto exploitation have brought a huge amount of money to North Korea. As per some sources, a UN Nations panel has alleged that the country...
North Korea Has Amassed $2 Billion from Hacking to Feed Its Weapon Program: UN Panel Reports
7.8.2019
North Korea is again in the limelight, but not for good reasons. As per the reports from the UN Panel, the huge scale cyber-attacks, hacking incidents, and crypto exploitation have brought a huge amount of money to North Korea. As per some sources, a UN Nations panel has alleged that the country...
Clone Website Used For Hacking Into Computers For Stealing Cryptocurrencies
6.6.2019
There was a significant delay in the ransomware attack throughout last year. But as per the research by Fumiko and Tweeter user, there has been an abrupt rise in 2019. The investigators have found a website through which the bad practitioners spreads cryptocurrency malware. The report was published...