Tether hit with 500 Bitcoin ransom demand — but says it won’t pay
Hackers have threatened to release sensitive company documents supposedly belonging to USDT stablecoin issuer Tether unless the firm sends a 500 Bitcoin (BTC) ransom to...
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US charges three North Korean hackers over crypto attacks and WannaCry ransomware
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against three North Korean operatives. Making the announcement, Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers condemned the...
Crypto criminals got away with $5B less in 2020 as scam revenue falls
Revenue from crypto-related crime dropped by more than half in 2020 according to Chainalysis’ annual report on the subject. Cybercriminals netted around $5 billion less...
EXMO crypto exchange suffers second attack in two months
London-based cryptocurrency exchange EXMO suffered a distributed denial-of-service attack earlier today, causing the platform’s servers to become unavailable. In a tweet earlier today, EXMO reported...
Yearn.Finance puts expanded treasury to use by repaying victims of $11M hack
Major decentralized finance protocol Yearn.Finance (YFI) has restored its yDAI vault in the aftermath of a $11 million exploit by hackers. Yearn announced Tuesday that...
Whitehat hacker receives $1.5M bug bounty after patch pumps token price
A whitehat hacker has seen what was already one of the largest smart contract-related bug bounties ever awarded more than double, after the ARMOR token...