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North Korean Lazarus Group Withdraws $1 Million in BTC Using Mixing Service
9.1.2024
The Lazarus Group, one of the most infamous cryptocurrency hacking collectives, has made one of its largest cryptocurrency withdrawals in over a month. According to Arkham, an on-chain intelligence exchange system, the group withdrew a million dollars worth of bitcoin from one of its addresses...
SEC Expected to Approve ‘a Handful’ of Spot Bitcoin ETFs on Wednesday, Report
9.1.2024
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to green-light “a handful” of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on Wednesday, potentially unleashing a wave of trading this week. On Monday, 10 applicants submitted their final amendments, including Blackrock, which...
CoinsPaid Faces Second Security Breach in Six Months, Unauthorized Transactions Totaling $7.5 Million Detected
8.1.2024
Source: AdobeStock / Sergey Nivens The Estonian payment processor for digital assets, CoinsPaid, has suffered its second security breach in the last six months, with unauthorized transactions totaling almost $7.5 million, web3 security firm Cyvers reported. Cyvers’ artificial intelligence...
Gamma Heist — Over $3M in Digital Assets Drained, 1,000 ETH Moved to Tornado Cash
6.1.2024
On Jan. 4, the decentralized finance protocol Gamma Strategies was a victim of a hacking attack which saw criminals make off with digital assets worth over $3 million. To pre-empt further attacks, Gamma Strategies said it has shut off all deposits on any of its “public-facing vaults.”...
Australia’s Security Regulator Faces Scrutiny Over Failure to Warn Citizens of the HyperVerse Crypto Scheme
5.1.2024
Source: AdobeStock / FiledIMAGE Australia’s Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has expressed the intention to look into reasons why the country’s securities regulator failed to warn citizens of the potential danger posed by the HyperVerse crypto scheme. A recent Guardian report says Jones would...
Official X Account of Blockchain Security Firm CertiK Compromised – What’s Going On?
5.1.2024
Source: Pixabay/Werner Moser The X account (formerly Twitter) of blockchain security company CertiK has been compromised with bad actors posting a phishing link to a wallet drainer. On Jan 5, it was revealed that CertiK’s X account was a victim of a phishing attack with several calls from the wider...
Radiant Capital Resumes Arbitrum Markets Operations After Security Breach
5.1.2024
Source: DALL·E Radiant Capital has announced the reopening of its lending and borrowing markets on Arbitrum after an extensive security review. According to Radiant Capital’s recent post, this resumption came after a detailed review and resolution of the security breach that resulted in...
Grayscale, ARK Invest, Valkyrie File Security Registration Forms for Spot Bitcoin ETF
5.1.2024
Source: DALL·E Grayscale, ARK Invest, and Valkyrie have submitted forms for spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) security registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to Radar, major spot Bitcoin ETF issuers Grayscale, ARK Invest and 21Shares, and Valkyrie have...
Gamma Strategies Identifies Root Cause of Exploit Attack, Attempts Negotiation for Fund Return
4.1.2024
Source: iStock / JuSun The protocol managing liquidity on the Ethereum blockchain, Gamma Strategies, has initiated a bounty negotiation with the attacker responsible for stealing $3.4 million worth of digital assets. The attack was discovered by blockchain defense company PeckShield on January...
CEO of Collapsed Crypto Fund HyperVerse Seems to Not Exist At All + More News
4.1.2024
“Hyperverse CEO Steven Reece Lewis”. Source: a video screenshot,DST NATIONAL CHANNEL / YouTube Get your daily, bite-sized digest of crypto and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s news. In this edition: CEO of Collapsed Crypto Fund...
Gamma Strategies Launches Investigation into Security Incident Following Exploit Draining Over 211.9 ETH
4.1.2024
Source: Pixabay The Ethereum-based asset management protocol, Gamma Strategies, is currently investigating an ongoing security incident that may have resulted in the depletion of at least 211.9 Ether (ETH). We're monitoring and reacting to a possible security incident. Please be patient while...
Orbit Bridge Hacker Suspected in Coinspaid and Coinex Breaches
4.1.2024
Source: AdobeStock / Tamara Blockchain analysts from Match Systems have found that the Orbit Chain hackers used the same tactics as those in several other high-profile attacks – suggesting that a cybercrime organization, possibly the infamous Lazarus Group, stands behind these hacks. This...
$1.8 Billion Cryptos Lost Across 751 Security Breaches in 2023: CertiK report
4.1.2024
Source: Pixabay/Werner Moser 2023 saw a 51% decline in the digital assets lost to hacks, scams and exploits than that of 2022. However, a staggering $1.84 billion in cryptocurrencies were lost across 751 security breaches in 2023, blockchain security firm CertiK reveals. The 2023 “Hack3d” report...
Defi Platform Radiant Capital Loses Digital Assets Worth $4.5 Million After Flash Loan Attack
4.1.2024
Radiant Capital, a decentralized finance (defi) platform, confirmed on Jan. 3, 2023, that it fell victim to an attack which saw the “protocol accruing bad debt in the WETH market, totaling about 1.3% of total protocol TVL” or $4.5 million. Radiant Capital has urged the hackers...
Wallet Drainers Make Off with $295 Million from 320,000 Users in 2023: Scam Sniffer
3.1.2024
Source: AdobeStock / Tomasz Bidermann Popular crypto phishing scams drained almost $300 million from 320,000 users in 2023 with figures increasing monthly as bad actors deploy sophisticated techniques. In a recent publication, cryptocurrency security firm, Scam Sniffers analyzed the market trends...
Radiant Capital Reports Exploit of $4.5 Million Ethereum Loss
3.1.2024
Source: Radiant Capital (Edited by Hongji Feng) Radiant Capital has confirmed a security breach in its network, leading to the theft of Ethereum valued at approximately $4.5 million. According to the blockchain security company PeckShield Inc., the hacker drained 1,900 Ethereum tokens within...
Crypto Investors Beware: IRS Crypto Tax Reporting Rules for $10k+ Transactions Now in Effect
2.1.2024
The controversial crypto tax reporting requirements within the bipartisan infrastructure bill signed into law in 2021 are now in effect as of January 1. These new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rules mandate that cryptocurrency brokers report personal information on digital asset transactions over...
Spot Bitcoin ETF Approval is Unlikely to Change Regulatory Environment in the US + More News
2.1.2024
Source: AdobeStock / 2024 Get your daily, bite-sized digest of crypto and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s news. In this edition: Spot Bitcoin ETF Approval is Unlikely to Change Regulatory Environment in the US INX Says Customer Data and Funds...
BRC20 releases Bitcoin Security Consensus Layer2 Platform, BL2
2.1.2024
BRC20 has just unleashed its Layer2 platform, BL2, which intends to connect ZK-Rollup with Bitcoin and execute multi-node authentication on the Layer2 network. In turn, this will help improve the safety aspects of zero-knowledge proofs. BL2 is akin to the Bitcoin security consensus. A few BTC main...
December Ranks Fifth Highest Month in Crypto Scams With Over $100 Million Drained
2.1.2024
Source: Pixabay / Pete Linforth Blockchain security firm CertiK says that over $116 million was lost in December to cryptocurrency scams with exploits, exits scams and flash loan attacks recording highest figures. The firm posted the industry hack data for the previous on X (formerly Twitter)...