News with the tag "slowmist"

A mass cryptocurrency heist plan has been identified following different users reporting unauthorized access to their wallet balances on February 14, 2025. Security firms SlowMist and OKX have released a joint report showing that they have found that a rogue app called BOM was responsible for the at...

In light of the $1.5B hack, which drained the exchange’s Ethereum (ETH) cold wallet, Bybit claims it remains solvent. However, the exchange is working through a bank run, with a long queue of withdrawal claims. Bybit is covering the damage of its recent hack for $1.5B, working through a queue of tho...

SlowMist, a blockchain security firm, revealed that Web3 security breaches amounting to about $98.14M in January. The SlowMist Hacked Database revealed that 40 hacking attacks resulted in losses of $87.94M. Only $1.47M was recovered. According to the SlowMist monthly security report, the main reason...

Millions of email addresses stolen in the 2022 OpenSea data breach have been publicly leaked by hackers. Cybersecurity experts warn that this disclosure has created more channels for phishing scams. OpenSea data breach in 2022 In June 2022, OpenSea found that an employee of its email automation vend...

Millions of OpenSea user emails are now fully in the wild after the marketplace’s automation vendor leaked the emails in mid-2022.

SlowMist founder Yu Xian YuX revealed that the investigation into the DEXX attack is ongoing and that more than 4,000 DEXX victim addresses and attacker addresses have been released on major EVM chains such as ETH, BSC, and BASE. Read original article on coincu.com

Security experts at SlowMist identified over 8,620 Solana wallets linked to the DEXX hack, with losses estimated near $30 million as recovery efforts continue.

The founder of the blockchain security firm SlowMist is urging crypto traders to be wary of copy-and-pasting sensitive information. The founder, who goes by the pseudonym Evilcos, tells his 81,300 followers on the social media platform X that whenever he copies something to his clipboard on his iPho...

Blockchain security firm SlowMist found a growing number of people lost funds to fake trading bots that use OpenAI’s ChatGPT in the name to build legitimacy.

An X user called “maxlin.eth” encountered a job-hunting scam where the attackers jumped into a Zoom call and tricked a potential victim into downloading a malicious app.