Bitcoin History Part 7: The First Major Hack
Hacks and heists have been a threat for as long as bitcoin has been worth stealing. By 2011, as Bitcoin was easing into its second year of life and...
Kyberswap To Compensate Exploit Victims As Hacker’s Deadline Gets Closer
The management of the embattled decentralized exchange KyberSwap has made plans to compensate victims of the protocol’s $ 54.7 million exploit. This development comes a few days after the...
Microsoft says Nation-State Hacker Group is Leveraging Cryptocurrency to Stay Under the Radar
A new security report by Microsoft says nation-state hacker group Bismuth is now deploying cryptocurrency-mining malware alongside its regular cyber-espionage toolkits. According to the report, the deployment by Bismuth...
Crypto-Stealing SIM Swapper Pleads Guilty, Gets 10 Years in Prison
Joel Ortiz, a college student who allegedly stole cryptocurrency worth over $5 million, has pleaded guilty and accepted a 10-year prison sentence. Ortiz was arrested last year and accused...
Kucoin Hacker Leverages Uniswap to Dump Vast Number of ERC20 Tokens
Since the recent Kucoin hack, the crypto community has been waiting for the hacker to move funds. During the early morning hours (ET) on Sunday, a number of people...
