There are high ceilings and low floors when it comes to crypto at times. Another hack came to life this week, and early reports have stated that the hack was a front-end compromise that led to users being tricked into approving unwanted transactions. The news comes after a $35M DeFi hack of the Vee Finance…
Attackers are exploiting poorly configured cloud accounts to mine crypto, Google warned users in a recent report. Cryptocurrency mining is a computationally intensive activity. And Google Cloud customers can access it at a cost. However, miners are now hacking Google Cloud accounts for mining purposes.In the report titled “Threat Horizons,” Google’s cybersecurity team assessed various…
A DeFi project that launched on Thursday had raised $60 million overnight during its token sale. However, the funds seem to have disappeared, and no one is sure exactly how. On Friday, investors woke up to the shocking news that their funds had disappeared. Around 13,556.36 ETH, which was worth $60 million at the time,…
Coinbase has released a breach notification letter this week saying that a minimum of 6,000 user accounts were victim to hackers. The exchange has stated that the breach took place between March and May of this year. What We Know The letter notes that unauthorized third parties exploited Coinbase’s SMS account recovery process and transferred…
On Friday afternoon, a number of Twitter users began to notice large withdrawals of Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens from Kucoin’s designated addresses. In the span of about thirty minutes, about $150m worth of ETH tokens left the wallets marked “Kucoin” and “Kucoin 2” on Etherscan. As the coins that were withdrawn were basically all the…
DeFi lending protocol bZx suffered another attack last night, the second in seven months. This time, faulty code was blamed for an exploit that allowed hackers to duplicate assets, or increase their iTokens balance without the appropriate collateral. Reports are circulating that hackers stole cryptocurrencies worth $8 million. But Anton Burkov, Co-founder of 1inch Exchange,…
In the first crypto exchange hack of this bull market, a European crypto exchange was hacked for around $5 million. Only the exchange’s “hot” wallets were compromised per their report. A hot wallet is a cryptocurrency wallet connected to the Internet. For exchange, hot wallets are often used to enable fast withdrawal of one’s holdings,…
A long-time holder was unfortunately taken for their 1,400 BTC – over $16 million worth of Bitcoin – in a wallet exploit. But how were hackers able to make off with this user’s cryptocurrency? And what can others do to avoid the same situation from happening to them? Crypto Crime Takes A Bow But Is…
Oddly enough, Apple is known for never using its official Twitter account to market its flagship iPhone or Mac computers. However, the one tweet the account has ever made was directly about Bitcoin to its more than 4.6 million followers. Comparing Apples To Oranges, And a Computer Firm To Crypto Bitcoin was created by the…
Minutes ago, the Twitter account of Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent out a suspicious message involving Bitcoin. The message read: “I’m feeling generous because of COVID-19. I’ll double any BTC payment sent to my BTC address for the next hour…” Attached was a Segwit Bitcoin address. The message garnered thousands of likes and retweets in…