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Silk Road Bitcoin Seizure: Analytics Firm Claims Tokens Worth Millions Still Outstanding
22.11.2020
Analytics firm Coinfirm says the US Department of Justice (DOJ)’s seizure of digital assets associated with the now-defunct Silk Road left behind tokens worth millions of dollars. According to Coinfirm, there are still valuable balances held on forked addresses originating from that wallet....
$pickle in a pickle as attacker swipes $20 million in “evil jar” exploit
21.11.2020
The perils of decentralized finance in the spotlight yet again after the latest major DeFi exploit
Twitter Hires Noted Hacker as Head of Security Months After Bitcoin Scam
17.11.2020
Twitter has hired Peiter Zatko, a prominent white-hat hacker going by the handle "Mudge," to help prevent future security breaches
Value DeFi protocol hacker flooded with sob stories after returning $95K DAI
16.11.2020
“These are all my savings. I hope you can return it to me.”
Bitcoiny, které z dark webového tržiště Silk Road ukradl hacker, zabavila americká vláda
7.11.2020
Před 8 lety ukradl hacker bitcoiny z dark webového tržiště Silk Road • Dlouhých pět ležely v peněžence, kterou v úterý někdo vyprázdnil • Ukázalo se, že kryptoměnu zabavila americká vláda
US Seizes Previously Undetected Silk Road Bitcoins Worth Over $1 Billion
5.11.2020
The U.S. government has seized over $1 billion in bitcoin from previously undetected transactions associated with the Silk Road marketplace and is now seeking the forfeiture of the cryptocurrency. US Confiscates $1 Billion in Bitcoin From Silk Road The U.S. government has filed a lawsuit seeking...
How Hacker News Crushed David Walsh Blog
28.10.2020
Earlier this month, David’s heartfelt posting about leaving Mozilla made the front page of Hacker News. Traffic increased by 800% to his already-busy website, which slowed and eventually failed under the pressure. Request Metrics monitors performance and uptime for David’s blog, and our metrics...
Defi Protocol Harvest Finance Hacked for $24 Million, Attacker Returns $2.5 Million
26.10.2020
Decentralized finance (defi protocol) Harvest Finance was hacked on Monday for $24 million. The attacker targeted the protocol’s liquidity pools, performing an arbitrage attack using a large flash loan – a type of uncollatarized loan – but later returned $2.5 million. In seven...
Harvest Finance puts $100K bounty on alleged hacker
26.10.2020
Harvest Finance is actively tackling the apparent $24 million attack
How Hackers Exploited Twitter’s VPN Problems, Obtained God Mode and Took Over Accounts
25.10.2020
An investigation by the New York State Department of Financial Services has revealed how the great Twitter hack in July happened. A total of 130 high-profile, celebrity accounts were compromised and many were used to tweet about a bitcoin giveaway scam. How Twitter Was Hacked The New York State...
Hacker from the 2016 Bitfinex Breach Transfers $21M Worth of Bitcoin to Unknown Wallets
8.10.2020
On Wednesday morning (ET), around 2,034 BTC ($21.6 million) from the 2016 Bitfinex hack moved into a few unknown wallets. The action was caught by the Btcparser program as five transactions with around 400 BTC each moved for the first time in four years. On August 2, 2016, the popular digital...
Hacker odhalil, co vše sleduje interní kamera v elektromobilech Tesla
8.10.2020
Jednou z velkých předností elektromobilů Tesla je velký počet kamer, které se používají nejen na různé funkce automatického řízení, ale třeba i sledování a natáčení toho, co se děje okolo vašeho vozu, když v něm nejste.
Přední vnitřní kamera nad zpětným zrcátkem rovněž plní mnoho
Kucoin Hack: $17M Laundered Via Decentralized Exchanges, Blockchain Analysis Firm Claims This Can Still be Traced
2.10.2020
Elliptic says the Kucoin hacker has sold $17.1 million worth of tokens via decentralized exchanges (dex) platforms like Uniswap, Kyber Network, Tokenlon. The shift to dex applications comes after centralized projects came to the aid of the beleaguered exchange by blocking any cashing out of...
[aktualita] Původně v ČR zatčený hacker Nikulin dostal v USA sedm let vězení
30.9.2020
Kalifornský soud nakonec Rusa Jevgenije Nikulina, obviněného z hackerských útoků na sociální sítě LinkedIn, Formspring a na úložiště Dropbox, odsoudil k sedmi letům a čtyřem měsícům vězení. Prokuratura žádala 12 let a jeden měsíc, obhajoba naopak navrhovala čtyři roky, které si již Nikulin...
Hacker steals $15m after degens pile into unreleased Yearn Finance project
29.9.2020
Eminence, an unreleased project being built by Yearn’s Andre Cronje has been drained of $15 million
Token Projects to Recover $130M from the Kucoin Hack, Devs Condemned for Centralization
29.9.2020
The cryptocurrency community has been discussing the Kucoin hack as a great number of ERC20 projects have frozen, paused, or reversed their smart contracts after the hack. Estimates say that at least $129 million ERC20 tokens affected are considered “safe” from the hacker’s...
Kucoin Hacker Leverages Uniswap to Dump Vast Number of ERC20 Tokens
27.9.2020
Since the recent Kucoin hack, the crypto community has been waiting for the hacker to move funds. During the early morning hours (ET) on Sunday, a number of people noticed the Kucoin hacker started to move a large amount of ether and ERC20s to connect with the decentralized exchange (dex) Uniswap....
Nevada Woman Charged in Bitcoin Murder-for-Hire as a Mystery Hacker Again Turns Tipster
25.9.2020
The case, the website, the circumstances and the source all share parallels with another recent federal murder-for-hire prosecution
‘Growth hacker’ hides 100 caches of Bitcoin Cash around city
18.9.2020
‘Giving away crypto does help people, but the real motivation is to spread awareness in a way that’s fun and interesting,’ the Bitcoin Man said
‘You Are Not Anonymous on Tor’ – Study Shows Privacy Network Offers Superficial Anonymity
17.9.2020
Privacy advocates are growing leery of the Tor network these days, as recently published research has shown a great number of network’s exit relays are compromised. Furthermore, on September 15, the Hacker Factor Blog published a new Tor report that shows IP addresses being uncovered....