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ForkLog 22 13.12.2021

Hackers breached Vulcan Forged users’ wallets and siphoned tokens worth $100 million

Malicious actors compromised 148 wallets of Vulcan Forged NFT marketplace users and stole 4.5 million PYR tokens (more than $100 million at the time of writing).

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ForkLog 17 13.12.2021

Unknown hackers hacked India’s prime minister’s Twitter and declared Bitcoin legalization

Unknown hackers hacked the personal Twitter account of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In his name they claimed Bitcoin would be recognised as legal tender in the country.

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ForkLog 12 12.12.2021

Hackers drain more than $77 million from AscendEX hot wallets

Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange AscendEX said it had suffered a breach of its hot wallets for Ethereum, Polygon and Binance Smart Chain.

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ForkLog 26 11.12.2021

BadgerDAO team reveals details of $121 million hack

The BadgerDAO DeFi protocol team revealed details of the recent hack and said that hackers used the Cloudflare Workers service, which allows scripts to be deployed in the company's cloud network.

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ForkLog 8 10.12.2021

Kaluga resident wired 5 million rubles to two fake Bitcoin exchanges

In Kaluga, police are searching for scammers who lured a Russian citizen out of 5 million rubles under the guise of cryptocurrency investments.

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ForkLog 7 08.12.2021

Seven million rubles stolen during a cryptocurrency sale in Moscow

A victim reported to the Moscow police a theft of 7 million rubles during a cryptocurrency sale, according to the Moscow Agency, citing sources in law enforcement.

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ForkLog 11 08.12.2021

Google accuses two Russians of building a botnet for covert cryptocurrency mining

In the United States district court in New York, Google filed a suit against the alleged creators of the Glupteba botnet, which infected more than a million Windows-based computers.

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ForkLog 8 07.12.2021

Company of the former Russian minister for digital development, communications and mass media excludes Finiko co-founder from its list of founders

Former Russian minister of digital development, communications and mass media Nikolai Nikiforov and his partner in LLC “Z-Siti” Azat Tukhvatullin, through court secured the removal of Finiko co-founder Edward Sabirov from among the founders.

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ForkLog 8 06.12.2021

Yoshkar-Ola resident loses 800,000 rubles in bid to profit from cryptocurrencies

A Yoshkar-Ola woman filed a police report alleging fraud after attempting to acquire cryptocurrencies, according to the local МВД.

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ForkLog 17 05.12.2021

Hackers siphoned more than $150 million from BitMart hot wallets

BitMart, a Cayman Islands-registered cryptocurrency exchange, said its Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain hot wallets were breached. Hackers withdrew more than $150 million from the platform.

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ForkLog 13 03.12.2021

Community ties Celsius Network to the address that lost 900 BTC in the Badger DAO hack

The centralized Celsius Network crypto-lending platform could have lost more than $50 million due to an unauthorized withdrawal from the Badger DAO DeFi protocol. The claim was made by Reddit and Twitter users.

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ForkLog 11 03.12.2021

SBU: Bitcoin miners near Kyiv stole electricity worth 3.5 million hryvnias

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) uncovered an underground mining farm in the Kyiv region, whose owners allegedly stole electricity worth 3.5 million hryvnias (over $128,000).

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