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ForkLog 16 01.08.2022

Binance reveals losses from KYC rollout

The cryptocurrency exchange Binance lost around 90% of customers and billions in revenue due to the introduction of KYC.

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ForkLog 10 29.07.2022

Google and Apple Urged to Report on Measures to Combat Fraudulent Crypto Apps

Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown urged Alphabet and Apple to provide information on measures to prevent cryptocurrency fraud in apps hosted in their stores.

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ForkLog 14 28.07.2022

Hackers attacked the Nirvana DeFi project. The NIRV stablecoin lost parity with the dollar.

The Solana-based yield farming protocol Nirvana Finance was attacked using an {{AOPEN_1}}instant loan{{ACLOSE_1}}. The attackers drained digital assets from the project's treasury worth $3.49 million.

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ForkLog 17 28.07.2022

Harmony community rejects plan to compensate Horizon hack victims worth $100 million

Harmony founder Stephen Tse said that the team will revisit the proposal to compensate victims of the Horizon cross-chain bridge hack worth $100 million by issuing additional native ONE tokens.

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ForkLog 9 26.07.2022

Report: Ransomware attacks fell by 23%.

Ransomware attacks fell substantially as Bitcoin’s price declined.

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ForkLog 8 24.07.2022

Hacker drains about $6 million from Audius, the decentralised platform

On July 23, an unknown attacker siphoned roughly $6 million in digital assets from the community treasury of the decentralised streaming platform Audius. The intruder modified the smart contract configuration and initiated a malicious governance proposal.

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ForkLog 11 20.07.2022

U.S. authorities seize $500,000 from North Korea-linked ransomware operators

The U.S. Department of Justice said it confiscated about $500,000 paid to North Korea-linked ransomware operators.

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ForkLog 18 19.07.2022

Kyiv authorities uncover a fraudulent mining-investment scheme

Kyiv law enforcement authorities have identified four suspects who allegedly misappropriated victims' funds by posing as investments in mining farms.

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ForkLog 8 15.07.2022

Chainalysis identifies main users of Bitcoin mixers in 2022

Activity in the use of cryptocurrency mixers doubled in 2022 compared with the previous year, according to Chainalysis.

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ForkLog 5 13.07.2022

Ukraine Seizes 50 Million Hryvnias and Nearly a Tonne of Silver from Suspects in Crypto Fraud

Fifty million hryvnias and 830 kg of silver were handed over to the National Asset Recovery Agency, seized from suspects in cryptocurrency market fraud.

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ForkLog 8 12.07.2022

Crypto projects lose over $670 million to hacks in Q2

In the second quarter of 2022, total losses across crypto projects from hacks and fraud amounted to $670,698,280, according to Immunefi, the bounty platform specialists.

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ForkLog 32 12.07.2022

Hackers attacked Uniswap liquidity providers through a fake airdrop

Binance chief Changpeng Zhao said researchers at the exchange had detected a potential vulnerability in Uniswap v3. However, it later emerged that the incident involved a phishing attack against a user, not a vulnerability in the protocol.

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