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A report reveals a new network of malefactors in the lucrative crypto fraud market using videos, channels and web apps.
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The crooks needed at least two private keys, each stored in two parts… but they got them anyway. Continue reading Harmony blockchain loses nearly $100M due to hacked private keys
Crypto.com has confirmed that more than $30 million in cryptocurrency was stolen from some of its users earlier in the week, ending several days of confusion over what exactly happened during what the company is labeling a “security incident.” The hack affected the wallets of 483 users, with the thieves aiming for 4,836.26 in ether (about $15 million), 443.93 in bitcoin (roughly $18 million) and approximately “$66,200 in other currencies,” Crypto.com said in a report Thursday. All of those funds have been restored, the company said. “No customers experienced a loss of funds,” the report said. “In the majority of cases we prevented the unauthorized withdrawal, and in all other cases customers were fully reimbursed.” Crypto.com did not specify who the crooks might be, or where the attack originated. But in describing the incident, it pointed to a now-remediated soft spot in its user authentication process. Risk monitoring systems had […]
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Endorsed by boxer Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled, the Centra Tech ICO debacle has led to the guilty plea of co-founder Robert Farkas. Continue reading Crypto founder admits $25 million ICO backed by celebrities was a scam
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Hackers made off with about $152,000 worth of Ether on Tuesday in an attack that exploited weaknesses in the internet’s infrastructure to steal users’ cryptowallet keys. The hackers did so by exploiting a weakness in DNS servers serving MyEtherWallet, a cryptocurrency exchange. DNS is a service that connects domain names like myetherwallet.com to whatever IP address it’s hosted on. “This is not due to a lack of security on the [MyEtherWallet] platform. It is due to hackers finding vulnerabilities in public facing DNS servers,” the company wrote in a Reddit post. Hackers hijacked the DNS servers around noon UTC, the company said, and redirected user traffic to a replica of myetherwallet.com hosted on a Russian server. The actual exploit was through the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), explains security researcher Kevin Beaumont. BGP is the system that actually directs traffic to a website. MyEtherWallet noted in the Reddit post that, because users were rerouted to a phishing […]
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People are spending cryptocurrency on everything from virtual pandas to tulips—seriously, you have no idea. Continue reading After CryptoKitties, the ‘Cryptocollectibles’ Business Is Booming