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Hacker Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Stealing Over $12M From Crypto Exchanges
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DOJ charges trio in sim-swap scheme potentially linked to $400 million FTX crypto heist
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has taken legal action against three individuals—Robert Powell, Carter Rohn, and Emily Hernandez—for their involvement in a...
$674 Million of Stolen Crypto Recovered in 2023: PeckShield – Unchained
Around 25% of the $2.6 billion stolen in over 600 major crypto hacks last year has been recovered, according to PeckShield’s Crypto Security...
Investors lost 54.3% less crypto in 2023, Chainalysis says
Crypto funds stolen last year dropped 54.3% to US$1.7 billion, after a record-setting year in 2022, when US$3.7 billion were lost to hacks and...
Crypto Hackers Stole $1.7 Billion in 2023, Down 54% YOY, As DeFi Security Improves: Report – Unchained
The number of DeFi hacks and DeFi losses fell, too — the latter down for the first time ever — indicating stronger DeFi...
North Korean-Sponsored Hacker Group Makes Its Return
Tyler Cross Published on: January 10, 2024 The Lazarus group, a North Korean state-sponsored hacker group, has returned after...
Weekly Update #34
Weekly Update #34January 8, 2024CipherTraceMARK COLLINS & DEMETRIOS TSEASRegulatory:Four individuals charged for laundering millions from cryptocurrencyA cryptocurrency (or crypto currency) is a digital asset...
Canadian Crypto Trading Platform Suspends Withdrawals Following Security Breach
Catalyx, a crypto trading platform based in Canada, suffered a security breach that resulted in the loss of customer funds in its custody.
While...
Nirvana Finance Hacker Pleads Guilty, Will Forfeit Over $12 Million in Stolen Funds
A former senior security engineer, Shakeeb Ahmed, pled guilty to the hacking incident on the decentralized finance yield protocol, Nirvana Finance, along with...
Nirvana Finance Hacker Pleads Guilty, Will Forfeit Over $12 Million in Stolen Funds
A former senior security engineer, Shakeeb Ahmed, pled guilty to the hacking incident on the decentralized finance yield protocol, Nirvana Finance, along with...
Sanctioned Bitcoin Mixer Blender Relaunched as Sinbad—It’s Been Sanctioned Again – Decrypt
Earlier this year, news dropped that federally sanctioned coin mixer Blender had relaunched as a different app called Sinbad.Now, the feds have gone after...
From Binance to DeFi: Hacks, Bounties and Anonymous Security
A recurring problem in crypto has been wallet hacks, with some incidents connected to large platforms, and some enormous sums of money being stolen...
UK Law Enforcement Works With Kraken To Recover Nearly $2,320,000 Worth of Stolen Crypto for Fraud Victims – The Daily Hodl
Police officers in the UK targeting cross-border crimes say that they have worked with US-based digital asset exchange Kraken to return the stolen assets...