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$60M Crypto Heist: Lazarus Hackers

Blockchain specialists have connected the most recent attack on the payment processing website Alphapo, in which criminals stole almost $60 million in cryptocurrency, to the North Korean Lazarus hacking group.…

$51M Stolen From a Cryptoblogger, Threatening With a Gun, a Knife and a Stun Gun

According to the Telegram channel VChK-OGPU, the Russian Federation’s Presnensky DMVA launched a criminal case for “robbery” in accordance with section 4 of article 162 of the criminal code. According…

zkSync’s $3.4M Hack: Major Breach

A “read-only re-entry” vulnerability in SyncSwap DEX allowed an attacker to manipulate prices and steal assets. The EraLend hacker exploited a smart contract flaw related to token minting and burning,…

US Citizen Confesses to $4.5B Bitfinex Hack and ‘Crypto Couple’ Money Laundering

Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein, a resident of New York, admitted to hacking Bitfinex and laundering the stolen money with his wife Heather Morgan, alias “Razzlekhan.” In a federal court in Washington,…

The FBI Issued a Warning to Criminals Impersonating NFT Developers Who Steal Crypto and NFT Assets

This dupes NFT fans into making rash decisions without conducting adequate due research. Be careful and double-check before engaging in any transactions. Scammers develop phishing websites that appear to be…

North Korea Attempts to Use a Cross-Chain Scheme to Launder Stolen Cryptocurrency

Through a series of cross-chain transfers, North Korean-led Lazarus hackers are attempting to hide the evidence of their compromises of the Harmony cross-chain bridge, the Atomic Wallet cryptocurrency wallet, and…

The Curve Hacker Started to Repay the Money Taken

The perpetrator of the attack on the decentralized Curve Finance protocol started returning the stolen money. In a sequence of transactions, the hacker delivered 4821 Ethereum (ETH) to the Alchemix…

How “Smart Contracts” Steal Crypto Wallets is a New Sort of Theft Occurring on the Network

The FBI warns prospective purchasers of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) about the danger of scam websites that use fictitious “smart drainer contracts” to covertly steal cryptocurrency wallets. In order to transfer…

The following Stop on Lazarus’ Tour of Cryptocurrency Banks is CoinsPaid

The Estonian firm CoinsPaid, which offers services for bitcoin payments, acknowledged that it was the target of a cyberattack on July 23, 2023. Cryptocurrency worth $37.2 million was stolen. The…

Unmasking AlphaPo’s $60M Culprits

Recently, it was reported that unknown hackers managed to steal about 23 million from the so-called “Hot Wallets” crypto platform AlphaPo, which specializes in fast payments in more than 30…