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ForkLog 7 01.07.2023

Report: crypto industry losses from hacks and scams total $655 million in six months

In the first half of 2023, the crypto industry lost about $656 million due to hacks, frauds, and rug pulls. Beosin experts provided these figures.

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ForkLog 9 22.06.2023

NFT platform Foundation fixes self-destruct risk that could wipe out all NFTs issued on the platform

Foundation fixed a vulnerability that could have wiped out all NFTs issued on the platform.

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ForkLog 49 22.06.2023

Seed & xPUB: Important nuances in wallet security

The essence of the difference between seed phrases and extended keys (xPUB) can be distilled to this: a seed is a superkey with read-and-write rights, while an xPUB is read-only. But in practice this does not answer many questions related to real wallet protection.

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ForkLog 7 20.06.2023

Mystic Stealer malware targets dozens of cryptocurrency apps

On hacker forums and dark-web marketplaces, Mystic Stealer malware for stealing information and cryptocurrency is gaining popularity.

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ForkLog 10 19.06.2023

Sui pays CertiK $500,000 bounty for vulnerability discovery.

CertiK's smart-contract security auditor received a $500,000 bounty for discovering a critical vulnerability in the Sui blockchain.

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ForkLog 8 18.06.2023

In the United States, a Russian national has been arrested on charges of distributing the LockBit ransomware

The U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of the 20-year-old Russian national Ruslan Astamirov. He has been charged with distributing the LockBit ransomware program.

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ForkLog 14 19.05.2023

Worldcoin to bolster security to tackle the biometric black market

Users in China without access to the Worldcoin app by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman buy biometric data from third parties in African countries to obtain signup bonuses.

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ForkLog 10 25.04.2023

Google unveils AI toolkit for cybersecurity

Google announced at RSA 2023 the Cloud Security AI Workbench, a cybersecurity package based on the large language model (LLM) Sec-PaLM.

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ForkLog 9 25.04.2023

Google Authenticator update threatens users’ crypto assets

A cloud synchronization feature in Google's new version of its two-factor authentication (2FA) app could threaten user data security, according to SlowMist analysts.

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ForkLog 8 17.04.2023

BNB Chain updates list of high-risk Web3 projects

BNB Chain developers expanded the list of high-risk Web3 projects by 191 points.

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ForkLog 9 14.04.2023

ConsenSys reveals details of incident involving a third-party service provider

A third-party service provider delivering ConsenSys customer-support services became the subject of a cybersecurity incident, as stated in the company's blog.

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ForkLog 14 27.03.2023

ChatGPT outage exposed subscribers’ payment information

OpenAI said that the payment information of some users could have been exposed due to a widespread ChatGPT outage.

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