Joseph O’Connor, alias “PlugwalkJoe,” was given a five-year jail term in the United States for his part in a SIM swap assault on a cryptocurrency exchange executive in April 2019 that resulted in the theft of $794,000 worth of cryptocurrencies. O’Connor was apprehended in Spain in July 2021. and eventually
CoinDCX’s Twitter account was hacked by an unknown hacker and promoted XRP. The hacked account used Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s images to gain trust. An Indian cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX is a new victim of phishing. Unknown hackers briefly took control of CoinDCX’s Twitter account to tweet scam links to promoting
Flash loans are a sort of crypto loan often obtained and reimbursed in a single transaction. The attackers could convert 99,976 USDT and 53.2 wBTC into ETH. For the second time in two months, Inverse Finance has been the victim of a pricing oracle manipulation scam that resulted in the
HP 9000 servers based on AMD EPYC were selected as targets. The Raptoreum crypto relies on a Proof-Of-Work architecture. Attackers who remain unidentified exploited a vulnerability in the Log4J library to compromise HP 9000 servers powered by AMD EPYC processors and mine the Raptoreum CPU cryptocurrency on these resources between
The latest BadgerDAO hack is a call for crypto investors to protect their digital identities and personal information better. Is there a solution to the major hacking crimes being witnessed in crypto every other day? Last week, BadgerDAO, a borrowing, lending, and yield earning platform of tokenized Bitcoin, announced their
