The notorious hacker accumulated 51,000 Ether mostly by guessing weak private keys from 2016 to 2018.
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The X account of Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu was hacked to promote a bogus token in what appears to be the latest in a string of similar hacks in the past month.
The sanctioned agents were allegedly generating funds for North Korea’s nuclear weapons development program.
According to Cyvers, the 40% yearly increase was driven mostly by growing access control vulnerabilities at centralized exchanges and cryptocurrency custodians.
Australian investing and finance educator Scott Pape, known as the “Barefoot Investor,” has broken down the secrets behind WhatsApp group crypto scams targeting Facebook users.
Initially owing creditors $4.2 million, Cryptopia’s liquidator Grant Thornton distributed at least $225 million in crypto to hack victims in December 2024.
Scammers are spoofing the support email for hardware wallet maker Ledger, prompting users to share their seed phrases under the pretense of checking for a compromise.
White hat organization Security Alliance (SEAL) urged users to transfer crypto funds from LastPass if their private keys had been stored there since December 2022 or earlier.
The government of North Korea (DPRK) has reportedly employed various hacking groups, most notably the Lazarus Group, to seal crypto in recent years.
Cryptocurrency hackers continue damaging the industry’s reputation as the yearly value stolen through cyberattacks nears $1.5 billion.