Enlarge / A BATM sold by General Bytes. (credit: General Bytes) Hackers drained millions of dollars in digital coins from cryptocurrency ATMs by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability, leaving customers on the hook for losses that can’t be reversed, the kiosk manufacturer has revealed. The heist targeted ATMs sold by …
Leading Bitcoin ATM maker General Bytes disclosed that hackers stole cryptocurrency from the company and its customers using a zero-day vulnerability in its BATM management platform. [...]
Threat actors are targeting and infecting.NET developers with cryptocurrency stealers delivered through the NuGet repository and impersonating multiple legitimate packages via typosquatting. [...]
An international law enforcement operation has seized the cryptocurrency mixing service 'ChipMixer' which is said to be used by hackers, ransomware gangs, and scammers to launder their proceeds. [...]
Americans are increasingly targeted in 'pig butchering' cryptocurrency investment schemes, according to a public service announcement issued today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). [...]
Lending protocol Euler Finance was hit by a cryptocurrency flash loan attack on Sunday, with the threat actor stealing $197 million in multiple digital assets. [...]
Cybercriminals are now using fake rewards in so-called "play-to-earn" mobile and online games to steal millions worth of cryptocurrency, according to an FBI warning issued on Thursday. [...]
A Federal grand jury in the District of Oregon has indicted four Russian nationals founders of Forsage decentralized finance (DeFi) cryptocurrency investment platform for allegedly running a global Ponzi and pyramid scheme that raised $340 million. [...]
An ongoing malware campaign targets YouTube and Facebook users, infecting their computers with a new information stealer that will hijack their social media accounts and use their devices to mine for cryptocurrency. [...]
Norwegian police (Økokrim) have seized 60 million kroner ($5,800,000) worth of cryptocurrency stolen by the North Korean Lazarus hacking group last year from Axie Infinity's Ronin Bridge. [...]
Over 450 malicious PyPI python packages were found installing malicious Chromium browser extensions to hijack cryptocurrency transactions made through browser-based crypto wallets and websites. [...]
Researchers at IT security company Check Point security have flagged Dingo Token as a potential scam after finding a function that allows the project's owner to manipulate trading fees up to 99% of the transaction value. [...]
New stealthy malware designed to hunt down vulnerable Redis servers online has infected over a thousand of them since September 2021 to build a botnet that mines for Monero cryptocurrency. [...]
Chainalysis reports that worldwide ransomware payments were down in 2022. Ransomware attackers extorted at least $456.8 million from victims in 2022, down from $765.6 million the year before. As always, we have to caveat these findings by noting that the true totals are much higher, as there …
Porsche cut its minting of a new NFT collection short after a dismal turnout and backlash from the crypto community, allowing threat actors to fill the void by creating phishing sites that steal digital assets from cryptocurrency wallets. [...]
The FBI has concluded its investigation on the $100 million worth of ETH heist that hit Harmony Horizon in June 2022 and validated that the hackers responsible for it are the Lazarus group and APT38. [...]
Enlarge / Holding up corporations, utilities, and hospitals for malware-encrypted data used to be quite profitable. But it's a tough gig lately, you know? (credit: ifanfoto/Getty Images) Two new studies suggest that ransomware isn't the lucrative, enterprise-scale gotcha it used to be. Profits to attackers' wallets, and the percentage …
The U.S. Department of Justice arrested and charged Russian national Anatoly Legkodymov, the founder of the Hong Kong-registered cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato, with helping cybercriminals allegedly launder illegally obtained money. [...]
Cryptocurrency wallet provider MetaMask is warning users of a new scam called 'Address Poisoning' used to trick users into sending funds to a scammer rather than an intended recipient. [...]
Multiple call centers across Europe controlled by a criminal organization involved in online investment fraud were taken down this week following a cross-border investigation started in June 2022. [...]
Maintaining bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies causes about 0.3 percent of global CO 2 emissions. That may not sound like a lot, but it’s more than the emissions of Switzerland, Croatia, and Norway combined. As many cryptocurrencies crash and the FTX bankruptcy moves into the litigation stage, regulators …
An anonymous Twitter user published yesterday a set of 10,000 API keys allegedly obtained from the 3Commas cryptocurrency trading platform. [...]
BTC.com, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency mining pools, announced it was the victim of a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of approximately $3 million worth of crypto assets belonging to both customers and the company. [...]
Multiple BitKeep crypto wallet users reported that their wallets were emptied during Christmas after hackers triggered transactions that didn't require verification. [...]
Twitter accounts giving Elon Musk a follow are being targeted in a crypto giveaway scam dubbed 'Freedom Giveaway.' [...]