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Bybit Announces Stolen Funds Recovery Initiative Following $1.4B Hack

[today 4:15 PM] Bybit has launched a recovery bounty program offering rewards for retrieving stolen cryptocurrency funds. Crypto Exchange Bybit Initiates Recovery Bounty The Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange, Bybit, has initiated a recovery bounty program…

North Korea’s Lazarus Group’s Sophisticated Tactics Behind $1.46B Bybit Crypto Heist

[today 2:35 AM] North Korea’s Lazarus Group, a state-backed hacking collective renowned for its technical sophistication, executed the largest cryptocurrency theft in history by stealing $1.46 billion from Bybit, investigators confirmed. North Korea’s Lazarus…

Bybit Faces Historic Withdrawals—350K Requests and Counting

[today 1:45 AM] Bybit scrambled to process over 350,000 withdrawal requests after a massive hack, with executives calling it possibly the worst financial breach ever. Bybit in Crisis Mode—350,000 Withdrawals Flood the System Ben Zhou, CEO of crypto exchange…

Crypto Chaos: Bybit Livestream Tackles Recent ETH Wallet Breach and $20B Assurance

[yesterday 8:30 PM] Following the Bybit hack, the team organized a livestream to deliberate on the recent billion-dollar hack that transpired on the exchange. Bybit’s founder Ben Zhao clarified that the platform was undergoing “massive…

Ethereum Price Tumbles After Billion-Dollar Bybit Breach

[yesterday 5:02 PM] Ethereum faced steep losses Friday after a security breach at Bybit drained an estimated $1.4 billion from the exchange. Ethereum Faces 2.6K Low Following the Hack—Can Recovery Hold? Bybit’s CEO confirmed on Feb. 21, 2025, that the…

Massive $1.4B ETH, stETH Exodus From Bybit Sparks Security Concerns

[yesterday 4:04 PM] On Friday, onchain investigators including Arkham Intelligence and ZachXBT identified an alleged “security incident” involving more than $1 billion in outflows from Bybit. Onchain Experts Report $1B+ Outflow From Bybit in Latest…

Monero Mining Malware Hits Users Downloading Game Torrents

[Feb 20 11:30 AM] According to Kaspersky, the campaign started last December, targeting users who are downloading torrents of popular games with a silent install of XMRig, a monero mining program. Crypto Malware Targets Gamers: Monero Mining Payload Delivered via…

BitsLab’s ScaleBit flags ‘alarming’ Uniswap Wallet vulnerability

[Jan 13 5:02 PM] Attackers with physical access to a user’s device may be able to see the wallet’s seed phrase, the security firm said.

Millions of OpenSea user emails leaked in 2022 now fully public: SlowMist

[Jan 13 4:13 AM] Millions of OpenSea user emails are now fully in the wild after the marketplace’s automation vendor leaked the emails in mid-2022.

Yat Siu X account breach likely part of a string of recent hacks: ZachXBT

[Dec 26, 2024 5:15 AM] The X account of Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu was hacked to promote a bogus token in what appears to be the latest in a string of similar hacks in the past month.

Bankrupt Cryptopia exchange distributes $225M to hack victims

[Dec 20, 2024 8:32 AM] Initially owing creditors $4.2 million, Cryptopia’s liquidator Grant Thornton has distributed at least $225 million in crypto to hack victims in December.

US Bitcoin ATM operator reports data breach of 58K customers

[Dec 12, 2024 12:20 PM] Byte Federal, operator of 1,300 Bitcoin ATMs in the US, urged its customers to reset login credentials following a massive data breach.

Dogecoin flaw exploited by hacker, crashes 69% of nodes

[Dec 12, 2024 10:30 AM] Security researchers claimed that the vulnerability could have been used to crash the entire Dogecoin network.

Clipper DEX says recent $450K hack wasn’t caused by private key leak

[Dec 2, 2024 5:40 AM] A $450,000 hack on Clipper was likely from a withdrawal vulnerability, not a leak, the decentralized exchange said.

South Korea confirms North Korea behind $50M Upbit hack

[Nov 21, 2024 7:32 AM] South Korea said North Korean hackers Lazarus and Andariel were behind the $50 million Upbit hack in 2019, with the stolen crypto now valued at over $1 billion.

Razzlekhan's Husband Gets Five Years Prison Sentence for Bitfinex Hack

[Nov 15, 2024 4:48 AM] For her role in the theft and laundering of around 120,000 bitcoin, Razzlekhan will receive her sentence on Nov. 18.

DeltaPrime exploited for $4.8M worth of ARB and AVAX tokens

[Nov 11, 2024 9:53 AM] The DeFi liquidity protocol paused operations on the Arbitrum and Avalanche blockchains as the team investigated the vulnerability.

Crypto apps see malicious popups after Ace Drainer hacks animation library

[Oct 31, 2024 2:08 AM] The popular Lottie Player animations library was hacked to push a crypto-draining popup on multiple websites, which has now been fixed.

Ethereum nodes on phones, Tether market cap tops $120B: Finance Redefined

[Oct 25, 2024 7:00 PM] Tether’s record market capitalization signals the potential start of the next bull run amid growing investor anticipation of a major Ethereum upgrade.

Radiant Capital hacker moves $52M in stolen funds

[Oct 24, 2024 5:35 AM] Nearly all of the stolen loot from Radiant Capital has been moved to the Ethereum network, which usually isn't a good sign for those hoping for recovery. 

Transak hit by data breach, 92K users exposed

[Oct 21, 2024 5:44 PM] Transak disclosed a data breach affecting over 92,000 users after a phishing attack compromised an employee’s laptop.

Quantum computer ‘threat’ to crypto is exaggerated — for now

[Oct 21, 2024 1:00 PM] Bitcoin’s private keys won’t be breached any time soon, but the industry still needs to transition to “post-quantum cryptography.” 

Tapioca offers $1M to ‘social engineering’ attacker who stole $4.7M

[Oct 21, 2024 2:05 AM] DeFi protocol Tapioca DAO said it was hacked for $4.7 million, now its offering its attacker a “significantly higher” bounty to try get most of the funds back.

Radiant Capital hacker compromised developers’ devices — post-mortem 

[Oct 18, 2024 4:41 PM] Attackers of Radiant Capital compromised the devices of at least three core developers through a malware injection, the company confirmed.  

Prosecutors Recommend 18-Month Prison Term for Heather Morgan in Bitfinex Hack Case

[Oct 12, 2024 12:30 AM] Heather Morgan, known by her rap persona “Razzlekhan,” could land an 18-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to laundering cryptocurrency linked to the 2016 Bitfinex hack. Prosecutors described her role as pivotal in obscuring…

Hacker pleads guilty to stealing $37M in crypto via ‘cyber intrusion’

[Oct 2, 2024 4:23 AM] Evan Frederick Light faces up to 20 years behind bars for each charge, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.

Polymarket users complain of mysterious Google login wallet attacks

[Sep 29, 2024 2:15 PM] The attacker used a “proxy” function to swipe victims’ USDC balances, but only a small number of Google login users have been affected.

Onyx protocol exploited a second time for $3.8M via known bug

[Sep 27, 2024 2:31 PM] The decentralized finance app lost nearly $4 million thanks to an interaction between an old bug and a new input validation vulnerability.

Singapore Court Grants WazirX Four-Month Conditional Moratorium

[Sep 26, 2024 4:22 AM] A Singapore court has granted Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX a four month moratorium based on certain conditions on Thursday, an industry source told CoinDesk.

WazirX Hacker Is Almost Done Laundering $230M Stolen Funds

[Sep 25, 2024 11:56 AM] On-chain data shows the hacker, or group of hackers, behind the massive theft is now close to completing the laundering of the stolen funds.