Hong Kong authorities are reportedly gaining experience in handling crimes involving cryptocurrencies. According to a recent report, authorities in Hong Kong thwarted a kidnapping attempt where the kidnappers demanded a...
Cardano successfully defended against a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that targeted staked ADA tokens on Tuesday. Despite the attack, the network remained fully operational. The DDoS attack aimed...
ALEX Lab, a Bitcoin layer-two (L2) network bridge, has issued an update on the recent hack that resulted in the theft of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency, detailing the perpetrator’s...
Binance co-founder Yi He has issued a disclaimer against an impersonator using her identity to scam unsuspecting users on the social media platform X. Yi He denied having issued any...
Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT uncovered a crypto theft targeting roughly $2 million worth of memecoins. In a post, the investigator revealed the thief exchanged half the stolen assets for Ethereum (ETH)...
Prominent Chinese crypto journalist Colin Wu alerted the crypto community to a suspected exploit on Linea Blockchain, a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum. In a recent post on X,...
Velocore has been reportedly hacked, resulting in a loss of about $10 million. The platform has initiated an investigation into the exploitation and froze stolen funds. However, the hacker managed...
About 17.8K ($53.5 million) ETH associated with the November 2023 Poloniex hack has been traced to Tornado Cash, a decentralized cryptocurrency tumbler. PeckShieldAlert disclosed this development via an X post:...
ZachXBT, a famous crypto personality known for on-chain investigations, believes four devs linked to the recent Munchables exploit are the same person. In a recent post on X, the 2D...
The X/Twitter account of Trezor, a major crypto hardware wallet solution provider, has recently been compromised by bad actors promoting fraudulent presales. Prominent crypto surveillance entities, including ZachXBT, have called...
According to crypto sleuth Scam Sniffer’s February Phishing Report, the month saw a loss of about $47 million through phishing. While over 57,000 individuals were victimized, Scam Sniffer revealed that...
Jeffrey Zirlin, co-founder of Sky Mavis, the firm behind the Axie Infinity game, confirmed that two of his personal wallets were compromised in a hacking incident on Friday. However, Zirlin...
Users of the password manager LastPass continue to bear the consequences of their earlier reliance on the service. Recently, renowned crypto investigator ZachXBT disclosed that a new round of crypto...
According to recent research, it has become economically unfeasible to carry out a Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) attack on Bitcoin and Ethereum. Hence, anyone attempting to take over control of...
According to the latest Chainalysis report, the funds stolen over the last year in crypto crimes show a substantial decrease despite a surge in crimes. Reportedly, 2023 saw a loss...
The notorious crypto hacking group known as “Pink Drainer” has left another victim in its wake, stealing a staggering $4.42 million in Chainlink (LINK). The victim, who fell prey to...
On-chain trading platform Thunder Terminal announced that the funds are safe after the exchange got hacked with 86 ETH and 439 SOL. Hackers, however, claimed that they had all the...
CertiK, a leading company dedicated to monitoring risks and detecting scams within the crypto sector, has released an update detailing alarming statistics regarding the financial toll of fraudulent activities in...
The blockchain security and analytics company PeckShield shared in an X post today that there has been significant progress made in tracking down funds stolen from Poloniex through a hack....
On-chain detective ZachXBT shared a recent hack that occurred in which a victim lost approximately $27 million. The hack took place on November 11, and when ZachXBT shared the news...
CertiK Alert, a platform known for reporting crypto hacks and scams, posted that the MEV robot was hacked, with the hacker stealing nearly $2 million. According to the crypto alerts...
The official X (formerly Twitter) account of crypto oracle Tellor was hacked on Friday, according to reports from PeckShield. This came as attackers reportedly posted phishing links for a fake...
According to Rosco Kalis, founder of Revoke.cash, it will be hard to attract enough new users for crypto to become mainstream as long as scams and hacks are prevalent within...
Data from DeFiLlama, the multi-chain crypto data stats dashboard, shows that cybercriminals have stolen about $1 billion from the crypto market so far in 2023. That represents a 60% drop...
The hacker behind the $415 million FTX exploit recently moved millions worth of ETH. The exploiter has moved a total of $8 million worth of crypto assets via Railgun and...