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Attackers Drain Millions From Cover Protocol, Token Holders Attack Compensation Plan
30.12.2020
Decentralized finance insurance project Cover protocol briefly suffered losses when an unknown attacker minted over 40 quintillion Cover tokens. However, after successfully cashing out tokens worth about $5 million, the attacker unexpectedly returned ether tokens valued at about $3.2 million before...
Ripple vows to respond to SEC ‘attack’ amid exchange delistings of XRP
29.12.2020
Ripple issued a statement on Tuesday urging market participants to hear its side of the story amid the ongoing SEC saga
Who Insures the Insurer? Cover Protocol Attack Exposes DeFi’s Promise and Peril
28.12.2020
Defi insurer Cover Protocol, designed to reduce smart contract failure risks, was exploited by a bug in its smart contract on Monday morning
Cover Protocol Plans New Token After Attack
28.12.2020
Cover Protocol announced it's exploring launching a new COVER token through the snapshot before the attack by a "white hat" hacker on Monday morning
Cover Protocol Attack Perpetrated by ‘White Hat,’ Funds Returned, Hacker Claims
28.12.2020
The decentralized finance (DeFI) insurance project Cover Protocol was hacked earlier Monday in an infinite printing scheme, causing the price of the Cover token to plunge. Hours later, a so-called ‘white hacker’ claimed responsibility for the attack, saying all funds had been returned....
Cover Protocol suffers infinite minting attack, price tanks 97%
28.12.2020
Cover, the peer-to-peer coverage market, is the latest DeFi project to suffer an attack
SEC to Sue Ripple Over XRP Cryptocurrency — CEO Insists XRP Is Not a Security
22.12.2020
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to bring a lawsuit against Ripple over the XRP cryptocurrency which it considers a security, according to Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse. Insisting that XRP is not a security, he calls the SEC’s lawsuit an attack on cryptocurrency that...
XRP Drops As 'SEC Voted to Attack' Ripple
22.12.2020
Brad Garlinghouse. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Bloomberg Technology
XRP-affiliated, US-based major blockchain company Ripple claims that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to file a lawsuit against the company because it allegedly violated investor-protection laws when...
Nicehash Crypto Mining Pool ‘Fully’ Reimburses All Users Affected by 2017 Hack
19.12.2020
A Slovenian cryptocurrency mining pool and trading platform announced that they’ve managed to fully compensate their users affected by a hacking attack that took place in December 2017, which took over 4,600 bitcoins. Nicehash ‘Fully’ Reimburses Users Affected in 2017 Hack...
Two Rubygems Infected With Crypto-Stealing Feature Malware Spotted by Researchers
19.12.2020
New infected Rubygems packages have been spotted in its open-source software repository and which contained malicious code mainly used to steal cryptocurrencies from users via supply chain attack. Two Cryptocurrency-Stealers Rubygems Detected by Researchers at Sonatype According to Ax Sharma,...
FBI Warns Ransomware Gangs Are Harassing Victims via Telephone Calls to Pay Crypto Ransoms
19.12.2020
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released an alert that warns private industry in the country about incidents of harassment of victims made by ransomware gangs, such as the well-known Doppelpaymer group. FBI Is Aware of Cold-Calling Tactics by Ransomware Gangs According to a...
Warp Finance reportedly loses up to $8M in flash loan attack
18.12.2020
The latest DeFi incursion involves flash loans ... again
Flash Loan Attack: Origin Protocol Unveils Compensation Plan that Excludes Founders
14.12.2020
The Origin Protocol team has unveiled a compensation plan for its depositors who were adversely affected by the flash loan attack in November. According to the team, there is now a plan to provide compensation equal to 100% of the value deposited to OUSD at the time of the exploit. Two Compensation...
Thief Steals USD 8.2m From Nexus Mutual Founder in a 'Targeted Attack'
14.12.2020
There's been another theft in the Cryptoverse - this time a 'personal' one, as attackers have taken more than USD 8.2m from the account of Hugh Karp, the founder of decentralized finance (DeFi) insurance protocol Nexus Mutual.
Nexus Mutual announced the news in a Twitter post today, stating that...
Hackers Demand Over 1,800 BTC From Electronics Giant Foxconn After Ransomware Attack
9.12.2020
A multinational electronic giant and a well-known manufacturer of Apple products is the latest victim of a millionaire ransomware attack deployed over the Thanksgiving weekend on one of its branches. Apple’s Manufacturer Is the Latest Victim of Well-Known Ransomware Gang Foxconn,...
Black Shadow Hackers Demand 200 BTC Ransom from Israeli Insurance Giant Shirbit
6.12.2020
One of the largest insurance companies in Israel has been hit by a ransomware attack, and the threat actors started to release sensitive data, as the firm doesn’t pay the requested ransom in bitcoin (BTC). Israel-Based Shirbit Still Refuses to Pay $3.8 Million Ransom According to...
Dragon Age Voice Actor Potentially Out After Twitter Attack On Series Writer Mark Darrah
4.12.2020
Yesterday BioWare general manager Casey Hudson and lead Dragon Age series writer Mark Darrah resigned from BioWare, spawning a wave of concern in fans over the continued health of the studio’s popular franchises. Today, Greg Ellis, the actor who voiced Dragon Age’s Anders and Cullen, took...
Microsoft Report says Nation-State Hacker Group is Leveraging Cryptocurrency Techniques to Stay Under the Radar
1.12.2020
A new security report by Microsoft says nation-state hacker group Bismuth is now deploying cryptocurrency-mining malware alongside its regular cyber-espionage toolkits. According to the report, the deployment by Bismuth of Monero coin miners in recent campaigns has provided another way for...
Adversarial attack: Přesvědčte umělou inteligenci, že je lesní roh ve skutečnosti čivava
30.11.2020
Strojové učení a neuronové sítě dnes velmi úspěšně používáme především v analýze obrazových dat. Tedy třeba k identifikaci, jestli je na fotografii pes, nebo kočka. Tímto způsobem používají techniky z ranku A.I. třeba internetové vyhledávače k indexaci skutečného obsahu obrázků na webu a počítá se
Hash War: Mystery Miner’s Empty Block Attack Makes ABC’s New Blockchain Almost Unusable
28.11.2020
According to various reports, the Bitcoin ABC pro-IFP chain has been under ‘attack’ for a number of consecutive days now. The mystery miner has been mining a great number of sequential blocks, but almost all of them have been empty. The miner who calls himself...