2023-10-6 22:03 |
A U.S. official implicates North Korea in a significant cyberattack on decentralized finance platform Mixin Network, with losses under $150 million. origin »
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In this week’s edition of the weekly recap, Strategy’s Michael Saylor rejected speculation about Bitcoin sales while affirming continued accumulation despite price declines. In other developments, the Justice Department secured multiple convictions for assisting North Korean cryptocurrency operations, and Ethereum…
North Korea’s notorious Lazarus Group has been blamed for a $22.8 million crypto heist that crippled UK-registered exchange Lykke, forcing its shutdown and triggering investor lawsuits. The British Treasury’s sanctions office linked the state-backed hackers to thefts of Bitcoin, Ethereum,…
A compromised device from a North Korean IT worker has exposed the inner workings of the team behind the $680,000 Favrr hack and their use of Google tools to target crypto projects. According to on-chain sleuth ZachXBT, the trail began…
North Korean IT workers are using fake identities to infiltrate crypto firms and steal millions worth of digital assets through remote job scams, cybersecurity researchers at Google Cloud and Wiz have warned.
An Arizona woman and TikTok influencer has received a multi-year prison sentence for helping North Korean IT workers fraudulently secure remote jobs at over 300 U.S. companies. Christina Marie Chapman, 50, was sentenced to 102 months in prison by a…
Researchers at cybersecurity company Darktrace have warned that threat actors are using increasingly sophisticated social engineering tactics to infect victims with crypto-stealing malware. In its latest blog, Darktrace researchers detailed an elaborate campaign in which scammers were found to be…
Continuing its crackdown on North Korea’s efforts to infiltrate U. S. companies, the Treasury Department has sanctioned two individuals and four entities for aiding malicious IT workers in infiltrating crypto firms.