Hackers

The post ALEX Lab Loses $4.3 Million in Tokens: DeFi Hackers Strike appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Bitcoin DeFi application ALEX Lab lost $4.3 million in various tokens early Wednesday. According to security researchers at CertiK, the attackers gained control of a private key that managed ALEX’s XLink bridge, which allows users to transfer tokens between blockchains. The hacker transferred over $300K worth of BTC, $3.3 million worth of stablecoins, and $75K worth of SKO tokens. ALEX developers claim…

The post El Salvador’s Chivo Wallet Breach: Bitcoin ATM Source Code Leaked by Black-Hat Hackers appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News A stunning disclosure has surfaced that cyberthieves have acquired portions of Chivo Wallet source code and as a consequence, the Bitcoin ATMs in El Salvador are put at risk. The hacker group staged the incident, CiberInteligenciaSV putting to light the weaknesses of the regime-driven virtual currency calling for critical examinations of data security. The leak published in a popular…

The first quarter of 2024 witnessed over $824 million across 67 hacks as bad actors became more active in targeting high-profile individuals and projects. According to the latest Hacken report shared with CryptoPotato, breaches in access control emerged as the most frequent category of hacks in terms of both frequency and financial impact, with $682 million being siphoned away. This constituted 83% of the total funds stolen during Q1 2024, spread across 26 separate incidents. Access Control Breaches Reign Four…

The sim card, that small plastic chip tailored to fit into the phone's sim card reader, plays the role of notifying one's cellular device on which cellular network to connect to. It also informs the network provider of the phone number a user will use. Due to the nature of mobile cellular devices, they are usually prone to be lost. This necessitates switching all these details to a new subscriber identity module (sim) card, increasing ties between one's phone number…

According to the latest reports, hackers are stealing an average of $10 million monthly from Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols. CipherTrace, a blockchain analytics platform, revealed this information today in a comprehensive report on the crypto space. DeFi Protocols A Major Target For Hackers According to the report, 40% of all crypto hacks in the first half of 2020 was targeted at DeFi protocols and exchanges. This resulted in a total loss of $51.5 million from January to June from these…

Hackers briefly gained access to US President Donald Trump’s campaign website and posted a cryptocurrency scam campaign. As per reports from Forbes, the attack took place shortly before 4 PM Pacific time. The hackers most likely seized access to the backend of the website to gain control of the website. After gaining control, they posted a message on the about page beneath an FBI parody image claiming. ‘’this site has been seized’’. The world has had enough of the fake…

In 2022 hackers raked in more than $4BN in cryptocurrency through multiple scamming techniques. Millions of others are lost every year from hacking attacks. Cryptocurrency is often seen as the most secure mode of payment. However, data breaches and malware attacks were recently observed in Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains and were noted to be caused by insecure systems. Although system loopholes are sometimes to be blamed, crypto wallet users share a significant part of the blame, especially when using rooted devices.…

Part of the Bitcoin stolen by hackers from a hack against cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016 has been moved. The hackers did not touch the funds worth millions of dollars for about four years. The movement of the funds was noted by Whale Alert, a Twitter bot that tracks the movement of large trades. It was carried out in twenty transactions and the value of each transaction was between 18 and 33 Bitcoin. The transaction with the lowest value was worth $184,868 while the highest was worth…

Someone or group stole users’ personal information from Canada-based cryptocurrency exchange and intends to use it to carry out a wave of SIM swapping attacks. The pseudonymous hacker spoke to media outlet Vice in an online chat on June 2. Based on a report by Vice, the perpetrators said they originally had the intention of selling the data but discovered that more money would be made by SIM swapping the accounts When it comes to SIM swapping, it has to do with cloning someone’s…