Stay secure in the digital age. This section covers crypto hacks, wallet vulnerabilities, exchange breaches, and blockchain security upgrades. Learn how to protect your assets and understand the threats facing Web3 and DeFi platforms.
Although pNetwork is already fixing the problem, the BSC DeFi platform has promised the hackers $1.5 million if they return their hack loot.
The attacker whom Delong suspected to be a Twitter user with the handle @eratos1122 notably carted away with the entire sum generated from the token sale.
According to some of the sources, there were a total of seventeen transactions and two attackers involved in the attack.
With a team of other security auditors, Manning will work to fortify Nym against surveillance by discovering new privacy leaks.
The Poly Network hackers returned $342 million worth of tokens back, claiming that they only hacked the network to highlight vulnerabilities.
Hackers have now started to return the funds from the Poly Network which were stolen from the company.
The hack saw cross-chain Poly Network lose ETH, BNB, and USDC, worth hundreds of millions, larger than the 2014 Mt. Gox exchange hack.
The crypto proponent website has experienced a DDoS attack that comes a week later after a UK court had decreed the website to stop hosting BTC white paper.
As it is quite common for the majority of hackers, REvil is now demanding over $70M in Bitcoin to decrypt the infected machines.
Following the news of an inevitable ban from China, DiDi has responded that the company will follow the order directed by the authorities and will halt all their app activities in the region.
The attack of Colonial Pipeline is a good example of the necessity to better protect data. However, many agree that the FBI breaking into the crypto pockets of cybercriminals proves that using cryptos is not as risky as some may think.
The cybercriminal interacts with a victim, thereby coercing the individual to provide his or her personal data, such as their ID (passport/driver’s license). With this, the attacker can gain access to the victim’s account.
New generation blockchains increase throughput to several thousand transactions per second with new engineering solutions such as PBFT proof of stake.
The Twitter hacker was tried and sentenced as a “Youthful Offender,” as he was yet to turn 18 when the hack was perpetrated. This helped him to avoid a minimum 10-year sentence that would have followed if he’d been convicted as an adult.
CD Projekt said its backup systems remain untouched and doesn’t believe the compromised systems contained any personal data of its users of its services and players.