$250K bounty ‘not too low to be insulting,’ says Coinbase white hat hacker
On Feb. 11, two days before the Super Bowl and Coinbase’s $14 million color-changing QR code advert, an engineer was desperately trying to reach out to Coinbase management and...
OpenSea planned upgrade stalls as phishing attack targets NFT migration
Major nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea has reportedly fallen victim to an ongoing phishing attack within hours after announcing a week-long planned upgrade to delist inactive NFTs on the...
Multichain recovers $2.6M stolen funds, to reimburse losses on condition
After a month-long fight against an ongoing exploit, cross-chain router protocol Multichain announced the recovery of nearly 50% of the total stolen funds, worth nearly $2.6 million of cryptocurrencies....
DOJ beefs up efforts to combat criminal use of cryptocurrencies
Written by AJ Vicens Feb 17, 2022 |...
4% of crypto whales are criminals, and they hold $25B among them: Chainalysis
Chainalysis data shows that 4,068 criminal whales (roughly 4% of all whales) are hodling more than $25 billion worth of cryptocurrency among them. The blockchain analytics firm defines criminal whales...
Warning: How one-time password bots can steal all your crypto
Cybercriminals are using bots purchased on Telegram to trick users into giving them access to their cryptocurrency accounts. According to a report from cybersecurity firm Intel471, one-time password (OTP) bots...
OpenSea to add Metalink customer service channel
On Tuesday, nonfungible token, or NFT, platform OpenSea launched a server on Metalink to give the verified owners of its collections a direct channel for support, feedback and updates....
Making sense of the Bitfinex Bitcoin billions
It’s the Netflix script that wrote itself. A story so outlandish, it’s stunned the crypto community; an industry accustomed to apparent suicides in Spanish jail cells and nonfungible token...
‘Razzlekhan’ released on bond, husband detained ahead of cryptocurrency laundering trial
Written by Tonya Riley Feb 15, 2022 |...
Report: 74% of stolen funds from ransomware attacks went to Russian-affiliated wallet addresses in...
According to a new report published by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis on Monday, approximately 74%, or over $400 million USD, of ransomware revenue last year were funneled into high-risk...
