Published on: 2025-05-08 15:01:34
The cryptocurrency platform Abracadabra Finance lost about $13 million worth of digital currency to hackers on Tuesday morning. The company did not respond to requests for comment confirming the amount of stolen cryptocurrency but acknowledged the incident in a message on social media. The crypto lending platform said the issue was sourced back to a product it calls “cauldrons” — isolated lending markets that allow users to borrow against a variety of cryptocurrencies. “Core contributors and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 10:34:52
The U.S. Department of Treasury announced today that it has removed sanctions against Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixer used by North Korean Lazarus hackers to launder hundreds of millions stolen in multiple crypto heists. The Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tornado Cash in August 2022 for helping launder over $7 billion since its creation in 2019. North Korea's Lazarus hacking group used the decentralized mixer to launder roughly $455 million of the $620 mil
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 19:13:07
U.S. authorities have seized over $23 million in cryptocurrency linked to the theft of $150 million from a Ripple crypto wallet in January 2024. Investigators believe hackers who breached LastPass in 2022 were behind the attack. Despite the threat actors' efforts, law enforcement agents traced $23,604,815.09 of the stolen digital assets between June 2024 and February 2025 to the following cryptocurrency exchanges: OKX, Payward Interactive, Inc. (dba Kraken), WhiteBIT, AscendEX Technology SRL, F
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 00:26:33
In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing this week, U.S. federal agents investigating a spectacular $150 million cryptocurrency heist said they had reached the same conclusion. On March 6, federal prosecutors in northern California said they seized approxi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 15:20:05
In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing this week, U.S. federal agents investigating a spectacular $150 million cryptocurrency heist said they had reached the same conclusion. On March 6, federal prosecutors in northern California said they seized approxi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 15:26:33
In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing this week, U.S. federal agents investigating a spectacular $150 million cryptocurrency heist said they had reached the same conclusion. On March 6, federal prosecutors in northern California said they seized approxi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 16:13:07
U.S. authorities have seized over $23 million in cryptocurrency linked to the theft of $150 million from a Ripple crypto wallet in January 2024. Investigators believe hackers who breached LastPass in 2022 were behind the attack. Despite the threat actors' efforts, law enforcement agents traced $23,604,815.09 of the stolen digital assets between June 2024 and February 2025 to the following cryptocurrency exchanges: OKX, Payward Interactive, Inc. (dba Kraken), WhiteBIT, AscendEX Technology SRL, F
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 00:20:01
A Memphis man was arrested and charged with stealing DVD and Blu-ray discs of unreleased movies and sharing ripped digital copies online before their release. 37-year-old Steven R. Hale worked for an unnamed multinational company used by major movie studios that manufactured and distributed DVDs and Blu-rays of movies. Between February 2021 and March 2022, Hale allegedly stole many discs of unreleased movies that were being prepared for commercial distribution in the United States. According t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 12:11:16
A malicious Python Package Index (PyPI) package named "set-utils" has been stealing Ethereum private keys through intercepted wallet creation functions and exfiltrating them via the Polygon blockchain. The package disguises itself as a utility for Python, mimicking the popular "python-utils," which has over 712 million downloads, and "utils," which counts over 23.5 million installs. Researchers from the developer cybersecurity platform Socket discovered the malicious package and reported that
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 01:30:00
As scam compounds in Southeast Asia continue to drive massive campaigns targeting victims around the world, WIRED took a deeper look at how Elon Musk’s satellite internet service provider Starlink is keeping many of those compounds in Myanmar online. Meanwhile, FTC complaints obtained by WIRED allege that an “OpenAI” job scam used Telegram to recruit workers in Bangladesh for months before the fraudsters suddenly disappeared. WIRED published the inside story of Russian tech executive Vladislav
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 07:22:35
U.S. authorities recovered $31 million in cryptocurrency stolen in 2021 cyberattacks on Uranium Finance, a Binance Smart Chain-based DeFi protocol. Uranium Finance was a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol built on Binance's BNB Chain that operated as an automated market maker (AMM) similar to Uniswap. The platform launched in April 2021, but hackers quickly exploited vulnerabilities in its smart contracts to drain its assets and push it to premature death, causing millions in investor losse
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The Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service has added over 284 million accounts stolen by information stealer malware and found on a Telegram channel. HIBP founder Troy Hunt says he found 284,132,969 compromised accounts while analyzing 1.5TB of stealer logs likely collected from numerous sources and shared on a Telegram channel known as “ALIEN TXTBASE.” "They contain 23 billion rows with 493 million unique website and email address pairs, affecting 284M unique email addresses," Hu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 12:43:19
Bybit said it replenished its reserves following a $1.5 billion hack last week, the largest in the history of the crypto industry. In less than 72 hours, Bybit pieced together hundreds of thousands of ether tokens through a mix of emergency loans and large deposits. While the rapid recovery restored the exchange's balance and kept customer withdrawals open, it didn't account for the stolen crypto. The breach occurred during a routine internal transfer, when Bybit was moving funds from its offl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 04:31:25
Ben Zhou, chief executive officer of ByBit, during the Token2049 conference in Singapore, on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. Bybit, a major cryptocurrency exchange, has been hacked to the tune of $1.5 billion in digital assets, in what's estimated to be the largest crypto heist in history. The attack compromised Bybit's cold wallet, an offline storage system designed for security. The stolen funds, primarily in ether , were quickly transferred across multiple wallets and liquidated through various p
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