2024-1-17 18:56 |
Sam Bankman-Fried's exchange attacker has moved another $12 million worth of Bitcoin
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Blockchain intelligence company Elliptic has linked FTX’s $400 million hack to Russian hackers, citing the unsophisticated method of laundering employed by the attacker. Per Elliptic’s report, the attacker was converting the stolen funds to Bitcoin using Renbridge, a service owned by the bankrupt exchange sister company, Alameda Research.
2023-10-13 20:10 | |
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A Georgia resident has been sentenced to one year in prison following a $3. 4 billion Bitcoin theft, the U. S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York announced April 14. Zhong stole billions in BTC in 2012 The authorities said that James Zhong first committed wire fraud against Silk Road in 2012.
2023-4-15 01:19 | |
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The FTX attack earlier this month was a sad twist in an already tragic story. According to newly obtained evidence, the FTX attacker transmitted $4.1 million in Bitcoin to OKX via ChipMixer. OKX Received FTX Hacked Funds Hundreds of thousands…
2022-11-30 02:21 | |
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360 Bitcoins (BTC) or over $6 million in equivalent being laundered through ChipMixer
2022-11-27 18:36 | |
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Sovryn, a bitcoin-based DeFi protocol, loses about $1 million worth of crypto to cyber attackers in a price manipulation hack. The attacker(s) achieved this by exploiting a vulnerability discovered in the legacy Sovryn Lend/Borrow protocol. Sovryn Loses $ 1 Million…
2022-10-6 13:36 | |
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It would take an attacker with 100% of current hash rate over two years to rewrite the Bitcoin blockchain, an all-time high.
2022-1-6 07:00 | |
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pNetwork, a cross-chain DeFi platform, lost roughly 277 Bitcoins to the tune of $12. 7 million in a recent hack. The platform confirmed on Twitter that the attacker targeted tokenized Bitcoin on the BiThe post DeFi platform pNetwork loses $12.
2021-9-20 12:30 | |
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The Bitcoin Association promises to take legal action against the attacker
2021-7-15 18:12 | |
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While a 51% attack on Bitcoin will cost a billion dollars, Dash developers say an attacker needs more than money to attack the Dash network.
2020-7-31 16:15 | |
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A Bitcoin exchange transaction resulted in a user getting scammed as a spoofed SMS message from a payment app made it seem that the attacker executed the payment.
2020-6-3 18:00 | |
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The decentralized bitcoin trading network Bisq has reported an attack that resulted in the loss of 3 BTC worth nearly $22,000 and 4,000 XMR worth $224,000. The open-source, peer-to-peer exchange that requires no registration to trade cryptos suffered an attack 24 hours ago where the attacker exploited a flaw in Bisq’s trade protocol. Statement on the […]
2020-4-9 20:31 | |
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Gaining control over any Proof-of-Work blockchain can be very profitable for an attacker, but at what cost? Regarding Bitcion (BTC), crypto trader PlanB has an answer
2020-3-4 14:55 | |
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Bitcoin Gold (BTG) has suffered another 51% network exploit with the attacker reportedly double-spending $75,000 in BTG tokens. Details of the Bitcoin Gold 51% Attack According to MIT crypto researcher James Lovejoy, Bitcoin Gold, one of the Bitcoin hard forks is once again the victim of a 51% attack.
2020-1-27 16:00 | |
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Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, has blamed a crash in the price of Bitcoin futures on an ‘attacker’. He claims that this was done by a customer who started their own futures exchange a few months ago, but quickly clarified that he had spoken to said client and that it was caused by a mistakeRead MoreRead More.
2019-9-16 17:26 | |
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An impersonator is attempting to scam followers of outspoken crypto celebrity John McAfee via Medium. The so-called "McAfee Crypto Extravaganza" promises mouth-watering 10x returns - if and only if - you deposit a small amount of Bitcoin or Ethereum in the attacker's wallet first.
2019-8-13 18:26 | |
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News is emerging that the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, has been the victim of an attempted ransom demand from a scammer. The attacker threatened to release KYC information if the company did not cough up 300 Bitcoins.
2019-8-7 11:44 | |
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Security researchers at Google and Coinbase discovered a zero day exploit on the Firefox browser that would allow an attacker to remotely execute code on an underlying operating system, as reported by ZDNet, June 18, 2019.
2019-6-23 13:00 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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Bitcoin [BTC]’s resurgence on the cryptocurrency charts also caused a change in other factors including mining characteristics and adoption rates. In a recent tweet, Jameson Lopp, the CTO of CasaHODL and creator of satoshi.
2019-6-8 09:00 | |
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“The Eye of Sauron casts its gaze upon the Lightning Network. ”This is how Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka, roasbeef) has heralded the coming of Watchtowers to the Lightning Network.
2019-6-3 17:43 | |
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A number of Bitcoin Cash detractors and media publications have recently been spreading a false narrative that the BCH network was ‘51% attacked. ’ In reality, however, honest nodes used their hashrate to stave off attacker nodes that were attempting to steal funds on the network.
2019-5-28 22:30 | |
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Bitcoin Cash reportedly suffered a 51% attack following its May 15 scheduled hardfork upgrade. Following Bitcoin Cash’s hardfork upgrade, an attacker exploited a vulnerability in the update that added invalid transactions to the pool of unprocessed transactions (the Mempool).
2019-5-25 01:47 | |
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Two mining pools recently carried out a 51 percent attack on the bitcoin cash blockchain.
2019-5-25 00:17 | |
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By CCN: An attempted disruption of the Bitcoin Cash blockchain resulted in a negative outcome for the attacker. A BCH tinkerer with Reddit username NilacTheGrim boasted yesterday that he had “liquidated” the crypto funds belonging to the would-be blockchain bandit.
2019-5-17 15:41 | |
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A bug was reportedly exploited on Bitcoin Cash during a scheduled hardfork upgrade of the protocol. For an hour and a half transactions went unprocessed, causing fees to skyrocket. A source familiar with the project says the exploit “looks like a timed attack,” while other rumors are circulating that the “attacker” placed a 180,000 BCH short […] The post Bitcoin Cash exploit cripples network during scheduled hardfork upgrade appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-5-16 21:43 | |
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WhatsApp has confirmed it was subject to spyware that allowed the attacker to read a target’s messages, as reported by MIT Technology Review on May 14, 2019. The hackers accessed messages after penetrating WhatsApp’s encryption through a flaw in the voice call feature.
2019-5-15 23:00 | |
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After the recent hack suffered by Binance, a DLT company Coinfirm has been tracing the stolen Bitcoin and says it has been moved to several different wallets
2019-5-10 11:45 | |
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Binance Attacker Moves Stolen Bitcoin To Just Seven Addresses The cryptocurrency exchange Binance was hacked a few days ago and lost 7,074 Bitcoin (BTC) worth $40 million at the time of the attack. The hacker seems to be moving the fund to other addresses in an attempt to withdraw or obfuscate the funds that it […]
2019-5-9 20:46 | |
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Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending. Two of the biggest digital black markets seem to be disappearing, both at the same time.
2019-4-27 21:17 | |
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51% attacks are a cryptocurrency’s worst nightmare. These attacks destroy confidence in a project and emphasize the need for carefully designed proof-of-work consensus. Below is a list of the five most prolific 51% attacks in crypto.
2019-4-24 12:50 | |
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Electrum servers are still under a sustained Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. The wallet developers announced the issue on April 7, 2018. In correspondence with Bitcoin Magazine, Electrum developer Thomas Voegtlin speculated that the attack may be a form of retaliation from a phishing attacker who has been targeting Electrum in recent weeks.
2019-4-11 21:47 | |
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The CoolWallet S, made by CoolBit X, combines hot and cold storage solutions, blending the mobility afforded by software wallets with the enhanced security features offered by hardware wallets.
2019-4-4 00:05 | |
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Boston public defenders suffered a ransomware attack some weeks back but have chosen not to send the bitcoin demanded by the attacker. Instead, they decided to use back-ups to restore services. The Committee oversees public defenders in Boston.
2019-3-15 20:33 | |
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On January 26, 2019, clients of peer-to-peer bitcoin trading service LocalBitcoins were the targets of a phishing scam which resulted in the theft of a handful of bitcoins.
2019-1-31 18:40 | |
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It’s Monday Morning, you should know how this works by now. Dive in for a wrap up of the weekend’s blockchain and cryptocurrency news. 1. Peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading website, Localbitcoins.
2019-1-28 12:35 | |
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Attacker Bags Eight Bitcoin (BTC) In LocalBitcoins Breach The crypto market may have slowed, with Bitcoin (BTC) falling by upwards of 70% during yesteryear, but ambitious attackers have continued their attempts to breach industry upstarts.
2019-1-27 22:09 | |
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One problem that concerns many is the centralization of mining within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Fortunately, there are talented developers working to solve this problem and Matt Corallo, full-time Bitcoin developer at Chaincode Labs, is one of them.
2019-1-26 23:50 | |
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Whenever I claim that bitcoin is the only decentralized cryptocurrency, I get one of two arguments:My X coin is also decentralized. Bitcoin isn’t decentralized because of Core and/or miners.
2019-1-21 21:52 | |
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Bitstamp Shows How Much Money An Attacker Would Need To Perform A 51% Attack On Bitcoin In a recent post on Twitter, the popular cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp provided information about how much money an attacker would need a day to perform a 51% attack on Bitcoin’s network. The post mentions that hacking Bitcoin with a […]
2019-1-10 01:45 | |
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If you’ve been buying the dip, you may want to brush up on good security. Crypto wallets are being targeted by cybercriminals, most recently with a phishing attack on the popular Electrum software wallet.
2018-12-28 18:24 | |
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Over the past few years, SamSam has wreaked havoc on victims spanning the entire globe. SamSam is a type of malware called ransomware that blocks users access to their own networks and computers until is a ransom is paid to the attacker.
2018-11-30 00:00 | |
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A bug centering around a new Ethereum token, GasToken, which was enabling abuse on cryptocurrency exchanges, appears to have been resolved. The details are provided in a report originally published on November 13, 2018, that discussed how the bug was exploited by attackers, and what digital platforms could do if they wished to protect their hot wallet funds.
2018-11-22 00:34 | |
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American retail behemoth Target has come out to clarify that a tweet it posted, containing a link to a Bitcoin giveaway scam, came from a third-party software provider – not Twitter. In an email to Hard Fork, a company spokesperson said – contrary to what it suggested previously – Target’s Twitter account was never inappropriately accessed.
2018-11-15 14:12 | |
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After attacks on Verge and Bitcoin Gold, the vulnerability of many altcoins to 51 percent attacks has been highlighted again by an anonymous Tweeter who has revealed plans to live stream attacks of low hashrate coins
2018-10-15 14:00 | |
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“On Oct 13, 3:00 CDT I will be doing a 51% attack against the cryptocurrency Einsteinium,” began the call-to-arms. As promises go, this one was as bold as it was brazen. The anonymous attacker has promised to assume majority hashrate control of an altcoin to demonstrate how easy the process is.
2018-10-9 08:15 | |
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A minor altcoin called Pigeoncoin has suffered a small-scale attack resulting in the theft of 235 million PGN tokens, worth approximately $15,000. Some have mocked the attacker’s modest gains, with ZDNet wryly headlining the story “Hacker wastes entire day only to make $15,000.
2018-10-9 01:36 | |
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Bitcoin technology company Blockstream has conceded its flagship Liquid Network could be susceptible to hardware vulnerabilities. Following recent disclosures that certain Chinese-manufactured motherboards contain backdoors, Blockstream has authored a post conceding that such an exploit could allow an attacker to infiltrate their off-chain bitcoin transfer system.
2018-10-6 10:50 | |
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Using a major bug found and fixed on bitcoin last month, an attacker was able to print 235 million coins on "pigeoncoin."
2018-10-3 23:05 | |
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Monero has officially released its Malware Response Workgroup website yesterday. In an effort to help protect Monero’s community, the website aims to provide resources to educate about the types of malware that may take advantage of users.
2018-9-29 23:18 | |
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