Crimes | ForkLog - Part 102

uskoryayushhei-sya-fragmentatsii-mirovogo-interneta

ForkLog 7 07.05.2021

New York attorney general seeks to halt Coinseed’s activities.

The New York attorney general's office filed a court motion to halt Coinseed's operations.

AI translated

ForkLog 9 06.05.2021

South Korean exchange suspected of $1.5 billion fraud

South Korea's police have begun investigations into the cryptocurrency exchange V Global, suspected of fraud, local media report.

AI translated

ForkLog 31 05.05.2021

Fraudsters posing as the WallStreetBets subreddit stole more than $2 million in cryptocurrency

The attackers, posing as the r/WallStreetBets community on Reddit, collected at least 3,451 BNB (more than $2.2 million at the time) and an undisclosed amount in Ethereum from those seeking WSB Finance tokens before listing on exchanges.

AI translated

ForkLog 9 03.05.2021

Russian loses 1.5 million rubles to cryptocurrency scam

A 31-year-old Stavropol resident handed over 1.5 million rubles to a cryptocurrency scammer.

AI translated

ForkLog 6 03.05.2021

MetaMask warned about a new phishing bot

The developers of the Ethereum wallet MetaMask warned about the emergence of a new phishing bot that steals users' mnemonic phrases.

AI translated

ForkLog 19 02.05.2021

Hacker drains $30 million in Spartan Protocol tokens from DeFi protocol

An attacker targeted the Binance Smart Chain (BSC)-based DeFi project Spartan Protocol and drained about $30 million from its liquidity pools.

AI translated

ForkLog 15 30.04.2021

Hotbit reports potential leak of user data

On April 29 at 23:00 Moscow time, attackers allegedly gained access to data of nearly 2 million users in an attack on the Hotbit exchange. Client funds are safe, the exchange said.

AI translated

ForkLog 18 30.04.2021

Experts urge tougher KYC/AML procedures to combat Bitcoin ransomware

A group of U.S. government and industry experts proposed strengthening compliance with KYC/AML procedures at an international level to reduce the number of ransomware attacks.

AI translated

ForkLog 21 30.04.2021

Trezor touts strong protection against government attempts to hack wallets

The developers of the Trezor hardware wallet highlighted its resilience against attempts to breach wallet security as US authorities plan to build a tool to bypass protections and access crypto assets.

AI translated

ForkLog 13 29.04.2021

Hacker forges Beeple NFT sold for $69.3m

The hacker Monsieur Personne created counterfeit copies of Beeple's most expensive NFT painting Everydays: The First 5000 Days to debunk the myth about the uniqueness and security of tokens.

AI translated

ForkLog 12 29.04.2021

Russian woman loses 1.1 million rubles to ‘cryptocurrency trading’ scam

A 49-year-old woman from the Kursk region lost more than a million rubles on a fraudulent site that purportedly traded in cryptocurrency.

AI translated

ForkLog 17 28.04.2021

Uranium Finance project loses $50 million in Ethereum due to vulnerability

In the early hours of April 28, the Uranium Finance cryptocurrency project came under attack. Preliminary damage is estimated at $50 million.

AI translated

#Crimes