cryptocurrecy

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2024
Man pleads guilty to stealing over $37 Million worth of cryptocurrency

A man from Indiana pleaded guilty to stealing over $37M in cryptocurrency from 571 victims during a 2022 cyberattack. Evan Frederick Light, 21, of Lebanon, Indiana, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments.  In February 2022, Light participated in a cyber attack on an investment firm in Sioux […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2024
Threat actors compromised 1,590 CoinStats crypto wallets

Threat actors breached 1,590 cryptocurrency wallets of the cryptocurrency portfolio management and tracking platform CoinStats. The cryptocurrency portfolio management and tracking platform CoinStats suffered a massive security breach. Alleged North Korea threat actors have compromised 1,590 cryptocurrency wallets. CoinStats allows users to monitor their cryptocurrency holdings across various exchanges and wallets in a single platform. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2024
Hackers stole more than $81 million worth of crypto assets from Orbit Chain

Crypto platform Orbit Chain suffered a cyberattack, threat actors have stolen more than $81 million worth of cryptocurrency. Orbit Chain has suffered a security breach that has resulted in the theft of more than $81 million worth of cryptocurrency. Orbit Chain is a multi-asset blockchain platform that connects various blockchains through Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC). It […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2018
FacexWorm targets cryptocurrency users and spreads through Facebook Messenger

Social networks could be a privileged attack vector to rapidly spread a malware to a huge audience, FacexWorm targets cryptocurrency users by spreading through Facebook Messenger. Social networks could be a privileged attack vector to rapidly spread a malware to a huge audience. In the last hours, a new threat is spreading through leveraging an apparently […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2017
A Verge specific node wallets hacked, crooks stole $655,000 from CoinPouch XVG Verge wallets

CoinPouch publicly disclosed the hack of a Verge specific node wallets and the theft if $655,000 from its XVG Verge wallets. A mystery surrounds the recent hack of CoinPouch wallet app, users lost over $655,000 worth of Verge cryptocurrency. On Tuesday, the maintainers of the CoinPouch multi-currency wallet app  published a statement that disclosed a security breach […]