News with the tag "exploit"

Xinbi Guarantee , a Telegram-based marketplace operated in Chinese, has been tied to over $8 billion in crypto transactions , which mostly involved the stablecoin Tether USDT.

A new report from Google Threat Intelligence , published on May 7 , shows that the hacking group COLDRIVER is using a tool called LOSTKEYS to steal documents from Western organizations.

In the fast-paced world of decentralized finance (DeFi), security incidents are a stark reality. When a protocol suffers a significant breach, the focus quickly shifts from the initial loss to the potential for recovery. This is precisely the situation the Solana-based DeFi protocol, Loopscale, has ...

North Korean hackers have set up fake crypto consulting firms to trick developers into downloading malware, according to a report published on April 24 by Silent Push Threat Analysts.

The world of decentralized finance (DeFi) often feels like the wild west, but recent legal developments are showing that actions in this space have real-world consequences. One of the most high-profile cases involves the Mango Markets exploiter , Avraham “Avi” Eisenberg, whose actions sent shockwave...

ZKsync , a Layer-2 scaling protocol on Ethereum, has successfully recovered approximately $5 million worth of crypto after the person behind the attack agreed to keep 10% as a reward and return the rest.

Scams involving cryptocurrencies cost Americans more than $9.3 billion , according to the FBI’s 2024 annual report .

A new malware campaign is targeting crypto traders through a counterfeit version of TradingView Premium .

Top on-chain analyst ZachXBT says that crypto will most likely fall into the hands of strict government regulations if it can’t figure out how to prevent hacks. In a new post in his Telegram channel, the blockchain detective says his most recent work with the Bybit hack has given him some clarity on...

A newly identified remote access Trojan (RAT) is being used to steal information from cryptocurrency wallets stored in Google Chrome extensions, according to Microsoft .