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Hacker With $42,000,000,000 in Wallet Exploits Interoperability Platform Poly Network

The decentralized finance (DeFi) cross-chain protocol Poly Network has suffered another major hack involving dozens of crypto assets. Poly Network…

July 4, 2023

$656,000,000 in Crypto Lost in Hacks, Scams and Rug Pulls In First Half of 2023: Blockchain Security Firm

A new report from blockchain security firm Beosin reveals that the crypto market recorded losses of over half a trillion…

July 2, 2023

UK Citizen Sentenced to Multiple Years in Prison for Stealing $794,000 in Crypto During 2020 Twitter Hack

A UK citizen was recently sentenced to five years in prison in the US for committing a slew of cybercrimes,…

June 27, 2023

Bad Actors Hack Twitter Account of the Sandbox CEO, Posts Fake Airdrop of SAND Tokens

The CEO and co-founder of the popular blockchain-based metaverse platform The Sandbox (SAND) just fell victim to bad actors who…

May 28, 2023

Russian Man Faces Over 20 Years Behind Bars for Alleged Participation in $200 Million Global Ransomware Campaigns

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted a Russian man who allegedly participated in deploying multiple ransomware schemes in…

May 23, 2023

Crypto Hacks and Cyberattacks Fund About 50% of North Korea’s Missile Program: Report

A White House official has reportedly said that cryptocurrency theft and cyberattacks provide for about half of North Korea’s missile…

May 15, 2023

U.S. Treasury Department Claims Criminals and North Korean ‘Cyber Actors’ Use DeFi To Launder Money

The U.S. Department of the Treasury released a new report on Thursday outlining what it argues are the illicit finance…

April 7, 2023

$200,000,000 in Stolen Crypto Recovered by DeFi Platform After Community-Led Investigation

Three weeks after breaching the Ethereum (ETH)-based lending protocol Euler Finance, the hacker who siphoned nearly $200 million worth of…

April 6, 2023

Feds Seize $112,000,000 in Crypto From US-Based Entities Allegedly Involved in Scams

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is announcing the seizure of crypto worth over $112 million linked to cryptocurrency…

April 4, 2023

Hacker Offered Bounty After Exploiting $573,000 in Crypto From DeFi Platform

Cross-chain bridging solution provider Allbridge is promising leniency to the hacker who exploited the multichain tool days ago if stolen…

April 4, 2023