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ForkLog 11 11.11.2022

CFPB identifies the most common bitcoin-scam schemes since 2018

Romantic scams and the pig-butchering scheme have been identified as the most common tactics used by bitcoin scammers. The CFPB said.

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ForkLog 7 10.11.2022

US sentences handed down in case involving sale of secret data for cryptocurrency

A Maryland nuclear engineer and his wife have been sentenced to prison terms for espionage.

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ForkLog 13 09.11.2022

Russia and Turkey to launch joint drive against criminal Bitcoin payments

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office and the Turkish Ministry of Justice signed a two-year cooperation program envisaging the fight against the criminal use of cryptocurrencies.

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ForkLog 10 08.11.2022

Deribit Hackers Transferred 1,610 ETH to Tornado Cash

Malicious actors transferred the funds obtained from the Deribit cryptocurrency derivatives exchange hack into the Tornado Cash mixer.

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ForkLog 14 07.11.2022

US resident pleads guilty to Silk Road fraud involving 50,000 BTC

A 32-year-old Georgia resident, James Zhong, pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining 50,000 BTC on the Silk Road dark-net marketplace, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

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ForkLog 18 07.11.2022

Huobi accuses pNetwork team of ‘malicious behaviour’ in Gala incident

Actions by the pNetwork DeFi protocol team in the recent Gala Games token incident were not a 'white-hat operation' but a malicious hack aimed at profit. Huobi said in a statement.

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ForkLog 14 02.11.2022

Rubic decentralised exchange hacked for $1.2 million

The Rubic cross-chain swap aggregator lost more than $1.2 million after a hacker gained access to the administrator's seed phrase.

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ForkLog 8 02.11.2022

Bitcoin ransomware attacker targeted Russians by posing as a security update

In late October, Russian-speaking users began receiving malicious spam containing ransomware.

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ForkLog 20 02.11.2022

Attacker siphoned $1.26 million from the Solend crypto-lending protocol

The developers of the Solend Solana-based lending protocol reported an attack on three lending pools, which led to “bad debt of $1.26 million”.

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ForkLog 13 02.11.2022

Deribit crypto-derivatives exchange hacked for $28 million

On November 1, unknown attackers hacked Deribit’s hot wallet and withdrew $28 million, according to the platform.

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ForkLog 11 01.11.2022

Web3 ecosystem losses from exploits year to date near $3 billion

In October, losses in the Web3 ecosystem from 44 exploits amounted to about $760.2 million. The total losses for the year approached $3 billion, nearly double last year's figure, according to PeckShield.

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ForkLog 12 28.10.2022

Experts tally up to 15 smart-contract frauds per hour

Across 12 leading blockchains, an average of 15 malicious smart contracts are created per hour. A new token programmed for fraud appears roughly every four minutes, according to Solidus Labs.

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