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APRIL 3, 2022

Blockchain bridges are a crucial piece of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, which makes them prime targets for attacks.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

The Changes Security Leaders Expect to See in Technology and the Threat Landscape Security executives at Black Hat USA 2022 discuss the latest cybersecurity trends from confidential computing and unified threat hunting languages to attack surface management and recovery services, social engineering campaigns and blockchain vulnerabilities.

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AUGUST 19, 2022

Kudelski Security has made a big investment into the blockchain and Web3 security spaces, leveraging a team of 25 to help translate the company's expertise around cryptography and application security into the nascent market, according to CEO Andrew Howard.

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JULY 27, 2022

Michael Stollery Scammed Investors via Cryptocurrency Initial Coin Offering Fraud Michael Alan Stollery, the chief executive of Titanium Blockchain, pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to securities fraud in a scheme involving a fraudulent cryptocurrency initial coin offering in which $21 million was stolen.

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JULY 26, 2022

Michael Stollery Launched an ICO, Advertised Fake Crypto Tokens to Scam Investors Michael Alan Stollery, the chief executive of Titanium Blockchain, pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to securities fraud in a scheme involving a fraudulent cryptocurrency initial coin offering in which $21 million was stolen.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Orbit Chain is a multi-asset blockchain platform that connects various blockchains through Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC). It aims to become a hub for the seamless transfer of assets and data between different blockchain ecosystems. It also hired the blockchain security company ChainLight.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

The researchers analyzed blockchain transactions, they discovered a clear link between Black Basta and the Conti Group. In December 2023, Elliptic and Corvus Insurance published a joint research that revealed the group accumulated at least $107 million in Bitcoin ransom payments since early 2022.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Pat Toomey of the Senate Banking Committee is requesting input from the cryptocurrency and blockchain community to inform future legislation on its security and privacy. Security Experts Praise Desire to Regulate Market, Cite Complexity Sen. Several experts praise efforts to regulate the space, but cite its complexities.

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JANUARY 9, 2025

bank regulator's crypto stance, Gemini's CFTC settlement, China's blockchain plans and Hong Kong's push for DLT in banks. Also: Penalty on Illegal Cryptomining in Siberia This week's roundup includes Do Kwon's trial, penalty on a Siberian firm over illegal cryptomining, 2024 drainer attack statistics, U.S.

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JULY 21, 2022

The Series A Proceeds Will Help Halborn Expand Its Audit and Pen Testing Services Halborn raised $90 million to expand its audit and penetration testing services and more effectively safeguard the crypto industry.

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JUNE 24, 2022

Nothing in that letter is out of the ordinary, and is in line with what I wrote about blockchain in 2019. In response, Matthew Green has written —not really a rebuttal—but a “a general response to some of the more common spurious objections …people make to public blockchain systems.”

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MARCH 4, 2024

The transaction, visible on Bitcoin's blockchain, suggests the victim of one of the worst ransomware attacks in years may have paid a very large ransom.

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OCTOBER 15, 2022

Mango Markets is a trading platform riding on the Solana blockchain. 96% of Voting Tokens favor Deal; Mango Markets Will Not Pursue Criminal Charges Decentralized finance exchange Mango Markets is set to pay $47 million as bug bounty to the hacker who stole $117 million in digital assets on Wednesday.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Blockchain investigators have uncovered at least $4 million—and counting—in cryptocurrency fundraising has reached Russia's violent militia groups.

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OCTOBER 8, 2023

Researchers from blockchain analytics firm Elliptic reported that threat actors has already laundered a record $7 billion through cross-chain crime. The term “Cross-chain crime” is used to refer to the swapping of cryptoassets between different tokens or blockchains to launder illegally gained funds.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

“This service is dedicated to individuals that have the need to possess complete privacy on the blockchain, offering a perspective from the opponent’s point of view in order for the user to comprehend the possibility of his/her funds getting flagged down under autocratic illegal charges.”

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DECEMBER 19, 2020

. “The representative went on to state that the server did not contain any “shop data,” and announced they were creating new servers and transitioning the site, meaning all Blockchain versions of the site would be “back to work in a few days.””

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MAY 18, 2021

Researchers from blockchain analysis firm Elliptic estimated that Darkside ransomware gang has made over $90 million from its attacks. Experts from blockchain analysis firm Elliptic estimated that the Darkside ransomware gang has earned over $90 million from ransom payments from its victims since October 2020.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Molly White—of “ Web3 is Going Just Great ” fame— reviews Chris Dixon’s blockchain solutions book: Read Write Own : In fact, throughout the entire book, Dixon fails to identify a single blockchain project that has successfully provided a non-speculative service at any kind of scale.

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JULY 29, 2020

“We have detected a recent attack which includes a completely undetected Linux malware and a previously undocumented technique, using a blockchain wallet for generating C&C domain names.” .” reads the report published by Intezer. ” continues the report. An example domain would be: 6d77335c4f23[.]ddns[.]net

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Cause of Attack Is Unknown, Moving Funds to Cold Wallets Recommended Hackers are using an unknown exploit to draw down internet-connected wallets on the Solana blockchain. So far, thieves have made off with about $8 million worth of cryptocurrency, predominantly from mobile wallet users of Phantom and Slope.

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MARCH 1, 2021

Akamai Describes How This Approach Works A cryptomining botnet campaign is using bitcoin blockchain transactions to hide command-and-control server addresses and stay under the radar, defeating takedown attempts, according to security firm Akamai.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Platform Attempts to Communicate With Hackers Hackers have breached the blockchain-based Poly Network platform to steal more than $600 million in cryptocurrency, the platform announced Tuesday as it attempted to communicate with the hackers.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The Ronin Network is an Ethereum-linked sidechain used for the blockchain game Axie Infinity. According to a post published by Blockchain security firm Chainalysis, its Crypto Incident Response team played a role in these seizures, providing its advanced tracing techniques to follow stolen funds to cash out points. . million USDC.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

Ethereum Classic (ETC) is the original unforked Ethereum blockchain, the attacks resulted in the loss of $1.1 51% attack refers to an attack on a blockchain by a group of miners that controls over 50% of the network’s mining hashrate. In order to protect customer funds, we immediately paused interactions with the ETC blockchain.”

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AUGUST 20, 2024

Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis revealed that ransomware payments rose by approximately 2%, from $449.1 Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis revealed that while overall on-chain illicit activity has decreased by nearly 20% year-to-date, stolen funds and ransomware significantly increased. million to $459.8 million to $459.8

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AUGUST 10, 2021

ETH:0xC8a65Fadf0e0dDAf421F28FEAb69Bf6E2E589963 We call on miners of affected blockchain and crypto exchanges to blacklist tokens coming from the above addresses. The Poly Network protocol allows swapping tokens across multiple blockchains, including Bitcoin and Ethereum and Ontology. The attackers. .)”

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

According to a report published by blockchain cyber security firm Elliptic, in the past 104 days, the North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has stolen most of $240 million in crypto assets from multiple businesses, including Atomic Wallet ($100m), CoinsPaid ($37.3M), Alphapo ($60M), and Stake.com ($41M). . ” states Elliptic.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

New research shows the attackers behind one such scheme have developed an ingenious way of keeping their malware from being taken down by security experts or law enforcement: By hosting the malicious files on a decentralized, anonymous cryptocurrency blockchain. Image: Guard.io.

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JULY 9, 2024

Private Key and Seed Phrase Compromise Remains Top Attack Vector, TRM Labs Reports Heists perpetrated by cryptocurrency-targeting hackers netted twice as much in stolen proceeds in the first half of 2024 as they did in the first half of 2023, as the overall rise in crypto's value appears to be drawing increased hacker focus, said blockchain intelligence (..)

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Attackers Socially Engineer Digital Asset Holders on Discord Users of OpenSea, a marketplace for blockchain-based digital assets such as crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens, are being targeted by scammers pretending to be the company's support staff on Discord.

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MARCH 28, 2022

If you want the privacy of paper money, you need something that leaves no paper trail.

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JULY 21, 2022

The company says an open-source vulnerability led to the compromise of its website, resulting in its users losing about $500,000 worth of blockchain assets. Premint NFT Shares $500K Attack Details, Promises Compensation Premint NFT platform users became victims last weejend of one of the biggest NFT attacks ever.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

In 2021, Phorpiex infections were found in 96 countries, most of the victims are located in Ethiopia, Nigeria and India: Phorpiex crypto-clipper supports more than 30 wallets for different blockchains. We focused only on the most popular blockchains – Bitcoin and Ethereum. Bitcoin, 55.87 Ether, and $55,000 in ERC20 tokens.”

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AUGUST 8, 2022

The Department of Treasury ordered assets of the Ethereum blockchain cryptocurrency mixer to be frozen and says civil and potentially criminal penalties await anyone under U.S. Penalties for Anyone in US Jurisdiction Who Uses the Cryptocurrency Mixer The federal government today sanctioned Tornado Cash. jurisdiction who uses the service.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

NKN (New Kind of Network) is a decentralized peer-to-peer network protocol that relies on blockchain technology. “This threat (ab)uses the NKN public blockchain protocol to carry out a large set of flooding attacks and act as a backdoor inside Linux systems.” The protocol enables secure and low-cost data transfer.

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JUNE 27, 2022

Threat actors have stolen $100 million in cryptocurrency from the Blockchain company Harmony on Thursday evening. Last week threat actors have stolen $100 million in cryptocurrency from the Blockchain company Harmony. Harmony pointed out that the consensus layer of the Harmony blockchain remains secure. 99,334,302.58

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