Cryptocurrency theft

The hacker responsible for stealing over $400 million from FTX and FTX US in November is suspected of using the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), founder of FTX, as a smokescreen to obfuscate the stolen funds. The hacker, known as "FTX Drainer," has been moving millions in Ether obtained from the No ...

The Balancer team has stated that a social engineering attack on its domain registrar, EuroDNS, was responsible for the compromise of its website's frontend on September 19. This incident resulted in an estimated $238,000 in cryptocurrency being stolen. Balancer DAO actively addressed the DNS att ...

According to a recent article by Bloomberg News, in late July, a programmer at Estonia’s CoinsPaid, a prominent crypto payment processor, was contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn for a job opportunity. During a 40-minute video interview, the engineer was asked to download a file for a technical t ...

The hacker accessed phone numbers and stole $20 million worth of crypto assets. The identity of the criminal and his accomplices has been established. A California federal court sentenced the man to three years in prison. Pennsylvania attacker Anthony ...

As reported by Asia Today, citing South Korean law enforcement agencies, North Korean hackers stole $180 million in cryptocurrency in the first half of 2023. According to the South Korean Intelligence Service (NIS), North Korea has illegally taken possession of more than $1.5 billion in virtual a ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said that at the request of U.S. authorities froze crypto-assets worth $4.4 million associated with organizations from North Korea. Binance Investigations worked with U.S. law enforcement to thwart the "illegal revenue-generating activities ...

The U.S. government believes that cyberattacks and cryptocurrency theft have become a major source of income for the North Korean authorities. At least half of North Korea's missile program is funded by cybercrime, says Anne Neuberger, de ...

Hackers managed to steal more than $15 million in various cryptocurrencies using a website that mimicked the HitBTC crypto exchange page. The information was provided by SlowMis The company's analysts identified and published fou ...

North Korean-linked hacker groups stole $721 million in cryptocurrency from Japanese entrepreneurs between 2017 and Jan. 1, 2023, according to an Elliptic study published by Nikkei. The amount represents 30% of total losses from DPRK hack ...

White House spokeswoman said Washington's concerns grow as DPRK develops new weapons The White House believes that cyberattacks and cryptocurrency theft remain a key source of revenue for the DPRK regime. The Defense Department said that at least half of the c ...

Security experts at Cyble Research discovered a new malware designed specifically for macOS that steals passwords and private keys from cryptocurrencies.</div The Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) blog reports that the new malware, called Atomic macOS Stealer ( ...

A local court in Omsk has handed down strict sentences to three individuals who robbed a resident and forced him to transfer over 84 million rubles in cryptocurrency to their wallets. According to the Omsk prosecutor's office, the perpetrators arrived in the city and monitored their victim's move ...