North Korean Hackers Stole Massive $626M in Crypto This Years, Mostly from DeFi
North Korea’s Lazarus Group has been named behind some of the biggest DeFi exploits this year including Harmony protocol and Axie Infinity hack.
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North Korea’s Lazarus Group has been named behind some of the biggest DeFi exploits this year including Harmony protocol and Axie Infinity hack.
The hackers are running a blackmail on Nio, and are asking for Bitcoin payment in exchange for user information stolen from the EV company.
Some users have expressed their displeasure over Gemini’s handling of data stating that the targeted phishing emails appeared weeks before the exchange noticed them.
While investigations are still ongoing, the case is rapidly developing. So far, the aBNBc token has lost over 99% of its value.
A 2021 report revealed that 7.7% of the cyberattacks globally targeted Indian healthcare institutions.
Deribit’s hot wallet compromise is the latest hack to raise concerns about the security of crypto exchanges.
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao revealed that the company has most of the compromised funds and is ‘narrowing down’ the identity of the hacker.
The hackers took over the Twitter profile of Gate.io and offered a prize of 500 USDT to the first 1,000 winners. With the help of PeckShield, Gate.io managed to get access back to its account.
Revolut is communicating with specific customers who are victims of the attack as it launched an investigation into the breach.
The CEO gave no details as to how and when the hack happened. But he stated that 90 assets had been affected.
The Lapsus$ Hacking Group exploited some of the employee accounts and internal tools of Uber, however, there’s no breach of customers sensitive information so far.
The weakness in security infrastructures from Cream Finance and other recently hacked DeFi protocols has continued to dampen the sentiments surrounding the sector.
According to Andy Stone, Meta spokesperson, Meta has invested “significant resources to detect and prevent scams.” Now, Mark Zuckerberg has a deadline until October 24 to prepare a detailed report about Meta apps’ policy.
More than 37,000 PwC Venezuela Twitter followers were able to see the Tweets on the hacked page for quite long, about 8 hours.
Soon after the hackers took control of South Korean government’s YouTube channel, the authorities became aware of the breach and immediately started working on restoring the hacked account.