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[Link] 'We Are Fucked': Crypto Stablecoin Collapses After $182M Hack
Read: 18/4/2022 www.vice.com
On Sunday, cybersecurity firm PeckShield reported the attack on Beanstalk Farms, saying hackers stole more than $80 million for themselves, but the protocol’s losses appeared to be even higher. The company later said its initial analysis showed the losses amounted to around $182 million.
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[Link] Bored Ape Yacht Club, Other Major NFT Project Discords Hacked by Scammers
Read: 3/4/2022 www.vice.com
Early Friday morning, the Discords of multiple major NFT projects were hacked as part of a phishing scam to trick users into handing over their digital jpegs. Bored Ape Yacht Club, Nyoki, and Shamanz confirmed Discord hacks in tweets.
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[Link] Woman Who Allegedly Laundered $1B in Bitcoin Was Cringe YouTube Rapper
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, the U.S. government accused Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31 of laundering around $1 billion in cryptocurrency stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack. As it turns out, Morgan did not exactly keep the low profile you would expect of an alleged criminal.
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[Link] CoinDesk CMS Vulnerability Let Hackers Trade on Nonpublic Info
Read: 5/2/2022 www.vice.com
“The issue is now fixed and added safeguards have been put in place. We regret this unintended deviation from our commitment to level playing fields in crypto markets,” Worth added.
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[Link] This NFT on OpenSea Will Steal Your IP Address
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
NFTs are usually passive affairs. A consumer buys the token, and then sells or stores the NFT. The NFT doesn’t really do anything.
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[Link] Crypto Protocol Publicly Announces Flaw, Users Relentlessly Owned by Hackers
Read: 20/1/2022 www.vice.com
Earlier this week, a platform that allows users to swap tokens between blockchains publicly announced that there was a flaw that made accounts vulnerable to hackers. The announcement, predictably, prompted several hackers to rush and try to exploit the vulnerability. One of them stole more than $1.
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[Link] A Hacker Is Negotiating With Victims on the Blockchain After $1.4M Heist
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
Hackers took advantage of a vulnerability in a blockchain service to steal around $1.4 million from users earlier this week.
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[Link] Hacked Cryptocurrency Platform Begs Hacker to Please Return $119 Million
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
The hack on BadgerDAO took advantage of an old-school web-based attack: the hacker was able to steal an API key that gave them control of BadgerDAO’s account on Cloudflare, the project’s content delivery network for its site.
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[Link] Hackers Steal $119M From ‘Web3’ Crypto Project With Old School Attack
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
Notably, the hack did not involve complicated smart contract exploits. Instead, it was a front-end attack targeting BadgerDAO's web infrastructure, in particular its Cloudflare account, BadgerDAO’s content delivery network.
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[Link] Canadian teen nabbed in $36.5M crypto heist – possibly the biggest haul yet by a single individual
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com
A Canadian teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing $37 million worth of cryptocurrency ($46M Canadian) via a SIM swap scam, making it the largest virtual cash heist affecting a single person yet, according to police.
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[Link] The US Government Made It Illegal to Buy These NFTs
Read: 10/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. government put 57 cryptocurrency addresses and one exchange on the OFAC sanctions list on Monday for facilitating ransomware and money laundering.
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[Link] Hostage-Style Bitcoin Scam Videos Are Spreading Across Instagram
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Hackers are forcing Instagram users to film hostage-style videos instructing their followers to participate in fraudulent get-rich-quick Bitcoin schemes as part of a new kind of scam that is spreading across the Facebook-owned app.
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[Link] Cryptocurrency Loan Platform Implodes In $130 Million Hack
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Wednesday, crypto lending service C.R.E.A.M. Finance was the target of a hack that stole over $130 million. It’s not only one of the largest heists ever targeting a so-called “decentralized finance” (DeFi) platform, but also the third such hack targeting C.R.E.A.M.
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[Link] Sim Swapper Doxes and SWATs His Accomplice
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
The SIM swapper, 20-year-old Kyell Bryan ended up doxing and swatting his former partner, according to the hacker’s guilty plea.
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[Link] Hackers drain cryptocurrency accounts of thousands of Coinbase users
Read: 10/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Between March and May of 2021, hackers managed to get into the accounts and move funds off the platform, draining some accounts dry. Thousands of customers had already begun to complain to Coinbase that funds had vanished from their accounts.
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