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Crypto Phishing Group Angel Drainer Reportedly Steals $400,000 From 128 Wallets
14.2.2024
Phishing group Angel Drainer stole over $400,000 from 128 crypto wallets after deploying a malicious vault contract yesterday. According to an X post published on February 13 by blockchain security firm Blockaid, Angel Drainer employed a new attack vector that exploited Etherscan’s...
PlayDapp Security Breach Escalates: Cumulative Losses Surpass $290 Million Mark
14.2.2024
The recent PlayDapp security breach has taken a grim turn, with cumulative losses now exceeding $290 million. According to a report by blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, the exploit resulted in the theft of millions worth of PLA tokens, the native cryptocurrency powering PlayDapp’s gaming...
Coinbase Suspends PLA Token Trading After PlayDapp’s Smart Contract Suspension
14.2.2024
Coinbase suspended PLA token trading on Wednesday after Web3 gaming platform PlayDapp paused the smart contract’s functionality. “We will continue to monitor developments related to PLA from the issuer and update our customers as more information becomes available,” Coinbase said on X. PLA’s...
Someone's Playing Doom On Sound Waves
13.2.2024
Welcome to another installment of “What Weird Thing Has Someone Ported Doom To This Week?” This time, it’s a user on Reddit who has translated the game into an audio signal that can be displayed by a spectrogram.Read more
The FTX Hack: The Unsolved SIM Swap Mystery
12.2.2024
New rules from the SEC and FCC, and the former’s own SIM swap incident, are likely to raise scrutiny on crypto firms to clamp down on a scourge of identity-hacks, says Andrew Adams, partner at Steptoe
PlayDapp Suffers Security Breach with $32 Million PLA Token Exploited
12.2.2024
The web3 gaming platform PlayDapp has suffered a major security breach, resulting in the unauthorized issue of 200 million PLA tokens. The blockchain security and analytics firm PeckShield Inc. spotted the breach on Feb. 10 and alerted PlayDapp about the exploit in a social media post. Security...
Playdapp Breach: Hacker Mints Tokens Worth $31 Million, Gaming Platform Offers Reward for Silence
12.2.2024
Playdapp, a Web3 gaming platform, recently confirmed that it was a victim of a hacking incident which saw criminals mint tokens worth approximately $31 million. Playdapp said it has offered to reward the hackers if they agree to return the stolen assets and contracts. Crypto Exchanges Urged...
Gary Gensler Tells Lawmakers SEC Takes Cybersecurity ‘Seriously’ After X Account Hack
11.2.2024
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler has assured lawmakers that the securities regulator “takes its cybersecurity obligations seriously.” Lawmakers raised concerns following the hacking of the SEC’s account on social media platform X, where a post...
Hacken Links Ripple Chairman Hack to XRP Official Wallet
8.2.2024
Following an investigation into the hack of Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen’s personal wallets, Hacken has discovered links to XRP’s authorized wallets. Hacken Investigation Traces Chris Larsen’s Stolen XRP Back to Official Wallets Blockchain security firm Hacken has disclosed...
Crypto Widget WordPress Plugin Flagged as “Critical” Cybersecurity Risk
8.2.2024
A crypto widget plugin for web content management system WordPress was named as a “critical cybersecurity risk” yesterday. A security bulletin released by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) noted that a plugin called “The Cryptocurrency Widgets – Price Ticker & Coins List”...
Hacker Reportedly Breaches Law Enforcement Systems of Binance & Coinbase
5.2.2024
Recent cybersecurity breaches have targeted the law enforcement request systems of prominent tech giants including Google, Meta, and TikTok, and major crypto exchanges like Binance and Coinbase. According to a report by InfoStealers, a notable rise in cybersecurity threats has led to hackers...
DOJ Charges Trio Behind $400 Million SIM Swap Attack on FTX
4.2.2024
The United States Department of Justice has charged three individuals accused of masterminding the SIM-swapping attack that siphoned over $400 million from FTX. The indictment of the trio appears to undercut claims that incarcerated FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was the mastermind behind the hack....
Binance Freezes $4.2M in XRP Linked to $112M Ripple Hack
2.2.2024
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has frozen $4.2 million worth of XRP in connection with the $112 million hack on Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen’s wallet on January 31. This incident is currently the most significant hack of 2024. In response to the exploit, XRP Ledger developers promptly...
U.S. Government Charges Trio Responsible for FTX’s Missing $400 Million, Cite FTX SIM Swap Attack
2.2.2024
New D.C. court filings from January 24 revealed that three people have been charged with stealing more than $400 million worth of digital currency from FTX in a November 2022 FTX SIM-swapping attack. A Years-long FTX SIM Swap Scheme Robert Powell, Carter Rohn, and Emily Hernandez have all been...
User Interface Bug in Friend.tech Caused Traders to Overpay 187 ETH for ‘Keys’
2.2.2024
A bug in the user interface implementation of Friend.tech has led to traders overpaying for ‘keys’ on the platform. In a recent post on X, security researchers Pawel Wylecial and ‘E.Laszlo’ said the bug arises from the user interface caching information before transactions...
FTX Hack Mystery Possibly Solved: U.S. Charges Trio With Theft, Including Infamous Attack on Crypto Exchange
1.2.2024
The federal indictment doesn't identify Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX as the pilfered company, but Bloomberg reported that's who it was
Silent Hill: The Short Message Has Me Worried For The Franchise’s Future
1.2.2024
The announcement during last night’s State of Play that a new entry in the Silent Hill franchise was out now and available for free immediately brought to mind the legendary P.T. demo. Sadly, the intrigue Silent Hill: The Short Message stoked during its trailer never pays off after playing through...
Play-to-Earn Games Leader Tamadoge Announces $TAMA V2 on Polygon
31.1.2024
Tamadoge has kickstarted the next era for its play-to-earn ecosystem, announcing the accelerated launch of its $TAMA V2 token on the Polygon network. The strategic move comes in the wake of a recent hack that targeted the project’s liquidity pool. This has prompted a swift and decisive...
XRP Price Prediction as On-Chain Data Suggests Ripple is Hacked for $100 Million – Is XRP Going to Crash?
31.1.2024
The XRP (XRP) price has rebounded back above $0.51 following downside earlier in the day on concerning reports that a key Ripple Labs executive had been hacked for XRP tokens worth over $100 million. Concerns about the security of XRP creator Ripple Labs XRP holdings, combined with concerns that...
Ripple Co-founder Hacked of Over $112 Million Worth of XRP
31.1.2024
Ripple executive chairman and co-founder Chris Larsen has taken to social media to clarify reports of the payment protocol being hacked on Wednesday. Larsen’s Accounts Hacked “Yesterday, there was unauthorized access to a few of my personal XRP accounts (not @Ripple) – we were quickly able...