16+ hour, 14+ min ago   (479+ words) Losses from the hack of Solana-based neobank Avici have now exceeded $1 million, with the attacker laundering the stolen funds through Tornado Cash, a crypto mixing service often used to obscure transaction trails. According to on-chain data, the attacker initially moved…...

9+ hour ago   (369+ words) A vulnerability in an outdated Rain card contract drained roughly $1.1 million across several Solana-based programs, including $500,800 from 1,685 Avici users, sending the neobank’s AVICI token down as much as 49%. AVICI — a self-custodial neobank that enables users to spend their crypto via…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (310+ words) Edge Wallet warned users that a breach at its former support provider, Zendesk, exposed email addresses used to contact the company between September 2018 and May 2024. The incident did not expose Edge wallets, private keys, wallet data or user funds, the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (627+ words) A criminal group that Check Point Research has dubbed StopAndProtect has been using nearly 2,000 poorly maintained WordPress blogs to host malware that steals cryptocurrency wallet seeds, passwords, and files from infected Windows computers. For crypto holders, the most alarming part…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (425+ words) Nearly 2,000 hacked WordPress websites were used to distribute malware, steal data, monitor victims, and deploy ransomware, according to cybersecurity firm Check Point Research. In the report published on Tuesday, researchers said the StopAndProtect ransomware family was first discovered in mid-May…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (315+ words) More than three dozen bitcoin and crypto companies have asked the largest AI labs to give open-source security researchers early access to their most capable models, arguing that the people defending a trillion dollars of infrastructure are working with weaker…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (196+ words) Crypto OG and self-proclaimed “financial educator” Tone Vays has admitted he was an “idiot” for giving hackers remote access to his PC during an hour-long Microsoft Teams interview. According to Vays, the hackers, who claimed to run a legitimate YouTube…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (277+ words) Node provider BTCPay Server said Tuesday it is funding a bounty for the return of bitcoin stolen from merchants last week, offering 10% of whatever is recovered up to a maximum of 3 $BTC, worth roughly $190,000 at current prices. The offer is…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (350+ words) The technique at the center of this campaign is known in the industry as voice phishing, or vishing. It’s a decades-old con dressed up for a modern corporate environment, and it appears to be working well against employees who assume…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (555+ words) cryptonews.net North Korean Hackers Compromised 1640 Companies Across 57 Countries, Crypto Theft Primary Target For nearly two years, a cybersecurity researcher maintained a hidden vantage point inside the command-and-control infrastructure of North Korean state-backed hackers. The operation, conducted by Kumio CTO…...