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Blockchain gaming platform WEMIX suffered a cyberattack last month, allowing threat actors to steal 8,654,860 WEMIX tokens, valued at approximately $6,100,000 at the time. During a press conference held yesterday, WEMIX's CEO Kim Seok-Hwan confirmed the incident occurred on February 28, 2025...

Indian authorities arrested Aleksej Besciokov, the co-founder and one of the administrators of the Russian Garantex crypto-exchange while vacationing with his family in Varkala, India. As infosec journalist Brian Krebs first reported on Tuesday, the 46-year-old Lithuanian national and Russian...

Argentina has found itself at the center of a high-profile scandal related to the $Libra cryptocurrency, which was promoted by the country's President Javier Miley on February 14. On the evening of Valentine's Day, he tweeted: "The world wants to invest in Argentina," accompanied by a code for...

Security experts have linked the North Korean hacking group Lazarus to the theft of nearly $1.5 billion from the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit. Meanwhile, the company has announced a reward of 10% of the stolen funds (around $140 million) for any information that will help return the stolen...

An unknown attacker has stolen over $1.46 billion worth of cryptocurrency from one of the cold wallets of the Bybit cryptocurrency exchange. This is the largest cryptocurrency hack in history, more than doubling the previous record. The first to notice the strange movement of funds was the...

Researchers from SecurityScorecard have discovered that the North Korean hacking group Lazarus is using previously unknown JavaScript malware called Marstech1 in targeted attacks on developers. This malicious campaign has been dubbed Marstech Mayhem. The researchers say that the malware was...

In response to the release of former American diplomat Mark Vogel from a Russian prison, the US authorities released one of the founders and head of the BTC-e crypto exchange, Alexander Vinnik. Recall that Vinnik was arrested in Greece, where he flew on vacation in 2017, for participating in...

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have charged Canadian graduate student Andean Medjedovich with stealing $65 million in cryptocurrency from the KyberSwap and Indexed Finance platforms. The prosecution alleges that Medjedovich used his mathematical abilities to cause the platforms to malfunction...

Last week, cryptocurrency exchange Phemex was attacked, resulting in the theft of over $85 million in cryptocurrency. The exchange has now suspended deposits and withdrawals and has already published Proof of Reserves to ensure transparency. According to a statement from Phemex CEO Federico...

Doctor Web specialists have discovered malware samples that, upon closer inspection, turned out to be components of an active campaign to mine the Monero cryptocurrency. Two malicious chains are built on running scripts that extract malicious payloads from BMP image files. According to the...

Another piece of malware has been discovered on PyPI, this time targeting Discord developers. The pycord-self package steals authentication tokens and installs a backdoor, allowing its operators to remotely access the victim’s system. The malicious package disguises itself as the popular...

Two of the three defendants were arrested in December. Crypto mixer sites have been sanctioned since they were shut down. The US Department of Justice has brought charges against three Russian citizens in connection with their involvement in the crypto mixers Blender and Sinbad. The services...

The attacker behind one of the largest ETH thefts in history has moved the stolen funds for the first time in two years, according to on-chain detective ZachXBT . Blockchain Bandit Fund Distribution Scheme. Data: ZachXBT. According to the analyst, the hacker transferred 51,000 ETH ($170.9...

Kaspersky Lab experts have identified a new online cryptocurrency fraud scheme. Attackers use real seed phrases from crypto wallets with Tether USD (USDT) tokens, posting them in comments under YouTube videos. The scammers hope that unscrupulous users will try to use this to withdraw other...

The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York has charged a member of the Cartier family and five Colombian nationals with laundering drug proceeds through the USDT stablecoin. Authorities allege that the defendants were part of a money laundering network operating in the...