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The Feds may see things differently Cryptocurrency bridge Nomad sent a message to the looters who drained nearly $200 million in tokens from its coffers earlier this week: return at least 90 percent of the ill-gotten gains, keep 10 percent as a bounty for discovering the security flaw, and Nomad will consider this a "white-hat" hack, as opposed to plain old theft, and not take legal action.…

North Korea stole millions of dollars in crypto assets in at least one major hack

A nascent service called Dark Utilities has already attracted 3,000 users for its ability to provide command-and-control (C2) services with the goal of commandeering compromised systems

iBynd VP of Insurance, Tim Logan, and Trend Micro’s Cyber Risk Specialist Vince Kearns provide insights on cyber insurance must-haves, pricing, services, and how the industry is changing in the face of ransomware attacks, cryptocurrency, and emerging cybersecurity technologies.

I got played via the Play store Last October, California resident Jacob Pearlman downloaded an Android version of a cryptocurrency wallet app called Phantom from the Google Play app store.…

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Thousands of hot wallets drained in latest crypto blow

SOL holders literally S.O.L. Millions of dollars worth of Solana cryptocurrency and other tokens were stolen from seemingly thousands of netizens this week by thieves exploiting some kind of security weakness or blunder.…

A fake website impersonating the official portal for the Atomic wallet, a popular decentralized wallet that also operates as a cryptocurrency exchange portal, is, in reality, distributing copies of the Mars Stealer information-stealing malware. [...]

So far, the ongoing attack has impacted nearly 8,000 Solana hot wallets.

An overnight attack on the Solana blockchain platform drained thousands of software wallets of cryptocurrency worth millions of U.S. dollars. [...]

NIST's nifty new algorithm looks like it's in trouble One of the four encryption algorithms the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommended as likely to resist decryption by quantum computers has has holes kicked in it by researchers using a single core of an Intel Xeon CPU, released in 2013.…

Flash mob exploits Nomad's validation code blunder Cryptocurrency bridge service Nomad, which describes itself as "an optimistic interoperability protocol that enables secure cross-chain communication," has been drained of tokens notionally worth $190.7 million if exchanged for US dollars.…

Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas Robinhood's cryptocurrency operations has been fined $30 million for violating New York's anti-money-laundering and cybersecurity regulations.…

Ransomware is a kind of malware used by cybercriminals to stop users from accessing their systems or files; the cybercriminals then threaten to leak, destroy or withhold sensitive information unless a ransom is paid

Financial watchdog accuses 11 of playing role in alleged scam Forsage, an alleged crypto Ponzi scheme purporting to be a decentralized smart contract platform, bilked millions of investors worldwide out of more than $300 million, according to America's securities watchdog.…