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ForkLog 14 14.02.2022

Hackers Used NFTs for Covert Mining and Cryptocurrency Wallet Theft

In 2021, NFTs became one of the main mechanisms for disseminating malware for covert mining or theft of cryptocurrency wallets.

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ForkLog 27 11.02.2022

Media: South Korean crypto exchange executives sentenced for fraud

Seven executives of the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange V Global have been sentenced to prison terms for fraud totalling 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion). CoinDesk reports.

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ForkLog 8 11.02.2022

FSB officers robbed a Saint Petersburg resident of cryptocurrency and cash

A 21-year-old resident of Saint Petersburg was the victim of an assault during which unknown attackers took half a million rubles in cash and cryptocurrency.

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ForkLog 34 10.02.2022

Russian police shut down four dark-web sites with $263 million in revenue

Specialists from the K Department of the Russian Interior Ministry blocked the operation of four leading darknet sites: the Sky-Fraud forum, Trump’s Dumps, UAS Store and Ferum Shop.

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ForkLog 46 10.02.2022

Hackers attacked the DeFi protocol Dego Finance

The Dego Finance team said it had suffered a hacking attack.

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ForkLog 21 08.02.2022

U.S. authorities confiscated $3.6 billion in Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex

U.S. authorities announced the arrest of individuals involved in the Bitfinex hack in 2016.

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ForkLog 25 08.02.2022

QiDAO DeFi protocol loses $13 million in hack

QiDAO protocol for issuing a stablecoin on the Polygon network reported a breach of the authorization-transfer smart contract that used code from the Superfluid cash-flow management platform.

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ForkLog 20 08.02.2022

Court Returns 1.8-Billion-Ruble Claim Against Alfa-Bank and BTC-e-Linked Company

On 4 February, the Moscow Arbitration Court returned to the owner of British company Mayzus Financial Services (MFS) Sergey Maizus the claim for the recovery of 1.8 billion rubles from Alfa-Bank and XP Solutions Limited.

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ForkLog 27 08.02.2022

Hacker siphons $4.3 million from Meter cross-chain bridge

The infrastructure DeFi company Meter lost about $4.3 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum as a result of the breach.

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ForkLog 20 07.02.2022

UN says North Korea funds nuclear programmes through attacks on Bitcoin exchanges.

North Korea continues to develop its nuclear programmes, with the proceeds from attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges a major source of funding, Reuters reports citing a UN report.

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ForkLog 17 07.02.2022

LockBit ransomware operators claim data theft from PayBito affecting more than 100,000 clients

The operators of the LockBit ransomware threaten to release PayBito exchange client data publicly.

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ForkLog 10 04.02.2022

CZ warns Binance clients about a large-scale phishing SMS campaign

Unknown actors organized a phishing SMS campaign targeting Binance clients.

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