Latest Ethereum news

Ethereum mailing list breach exposes 35,000 to crypto draining attack

A threat actor compromised Ethereum's mailing list provider and sent to over 35,000 addresses a phishing email with a link to a malicious site running a crypto drainer.
- Bill Toulas
- July 04, 2024
- 12:17 PM
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Brothers arrested for $25 million theft in Ethereum blockchain attack

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted two former MIT students for allegedly manipulating the Ethereum blockchain and stealing $25 million worth of cryptocurrency within approximately 12 seconds in a "first-of-its-kind" scheme.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 15, 2024
- 02:36 PM
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Ethereum feature abused to steal $60 million from 99K victims

Malicious actors have been abusing Ethereum's 'Create2' function to bypass wallet security alerts and poison cryptocurrency addresses, which led to stealing $60,000,000 worth of cryptocurrency from 99,000 people in six months.
- Bill Toulas
- November 13, 2023
- 04:41 PM
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Crypto firm Nansen asks users to reset passwords after vendor breach

Ethereum blockchain analytics firm Nansen asks a subset of its users to reset passwords following a recent data breach at its authentication provider.
- Bill Toulas
- September 22, 2023
- 01:22 PM
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FBI: North Korean hackers stole $100 million in Harmony crypto hack

The FBI has concluded its investigation on the $100 million worth of ETH heist that hit Harmony Horizon in June 2022 and validated that the hackers responsible for it are the Lazarus group and APT38.
- Bill Toulas
- January 24, 2023
- 09:49 AM
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npm packages used by crypto exchanges compromised

Multiple npm packages published by the crypto exchange, dYdX, and used by at least 44 cryptocurrency projects, appear to have been compromised. Powered by the Ethereum blockchain, dydX is a decentralized exchange platform offering perpetual trading options for over 35 popular cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH).
- Ax Sharma
- September 23, 2022
- 12:31 PM
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Hackers steal $6 million from blockchain music platform Audius

The decentralized music platform Audius was hacked over the weekend, with threat actors stealing over 18 million AUDIO tokens worth approximately $6 million.
- Bill Toulas
- July 26, 2022
- 12:09 PM
- 1
$8 million stolen in large-scale Uniswap airdrop phishing attack

Uniswap, a popular decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, lost close to $8 million worth of Ethereum in a sophisticated phishing attack yesterday.
- Bill Toulas
- July 13, 2022
- 10:36 AM
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Bored Ape Yacht Club, Otherside NFTs stolen in Discord server hack

Hackers reportedly stole over $257,000 in Ethereum and thirty-two NFTs after the Yuga Lab's Bored Ape Yacht Club and Otherside Metaverse Discord servers were compromised to post a phishing scam.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 04, 2022
- 03:23 PM
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Fake crypto giveaways steal millions using Elon Musk Ark Invest video

Fake cryptocurrency giveaways are stealing millions of dollars simply by replaying old Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey Ark Invest videos on YouTube.
- Ionut Ilascu
- May 07, 2022
- 04:48 PM
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Ethereum dev imprisoned for helping North Korea evade sanctions

Virgil Griffith, a US cryptocurrency expert, was sentenced on Tuesday to 63 months in prison after pleading guilty to assisting the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) with technical info on how to evade sanctions.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 12, 2022
- 05:42 PM
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$620 million in crypto stolen from Axie Infinity's Ronin bridge

A hacker has stolen almost $620 million in Ethereum and USDC tokens from Axie Infinity's Ronin network bridge, making it possibly the largest crypto hack in history.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 29, 2022
- 03:38 PM
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Wormhole restores stolen $326 million after major crypto bailout

Cryptocurrency platform Wormhole has recovered upwards of $326 million stolen in this week's crypto hack, thanks to a major bailout.
- Ax Sharma
- February 04, 2022
- 05:09 AM
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Ethereum dev admits to helping North Korea evade crypto sanctions

Cryptocurrency expert Virgil Griffith pled guilty today to assisting the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in evading U.S. sanctions by conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and Executive Order 13466.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 27, 2021
- 03:14 PM
- 0
Ethereum urges Go devs to fix severe chain-split vulnerability

Ethreum project is urging developers to apply a hotfix to squash a high-severity vulnerability. The chain-split vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-39137, impacts "Geth," the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol.
- Ax Sharma
- August 25, 2021
- 11:02 AM
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Hacker gets 500K reward for returning stolen cryptocurrency

The saga of what has been dubbed the biggest hack in the world of decentralized finance appears to be over as Poly Network recovered more than $610 million in cryptocurrency assets it lost two weeks ago and the hacker received a $500,000 bounty for returning the money.
- Ionut Ilascu
- August 23, 2021
- 03:30 PM
- 2
Hacker behind biggest ever cryptocurrency heist returns stolen funds

The threat actor who hacked Poly Network's cross-chain interoperability protocol yesterday to steal over $600 million worth of cryptocurrency assets is now returning the stolen funds.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 11, 2021
- 05:21 PM
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Over $600 million reportedly stolen in cryptocurrency hack

Over $611 million have reportedly been stolen in one of the largest cryptocurrency hacks. Decentralized cross-chain protocol and network, Poly Network announced today that it was attacked with cryptocurrency assets having successfully been transferred into the attackers' wallets.
- Ax Sharma
- August 10, 2021
- 12:19 PM
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Microsoft warns of cryptomining attacks on Kubernetes clusters

Microsoft warns of an ongoing series of attacks compromising Kubernetes clusters running Kubeflow machine learning (ML) instances to deploy malicious containers that mine for Monero and Ethereum cryptocurrency.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 09, 2021
- 01:05 PM
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Hands on with Norton antivirus Ethereum mining: The good and the bad

Last week, NortonLifelock announced that the Norton 360 antivirus suite would soon be able to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency while the computer is idle. In this article, we go hands-on with the new 'Norton Crypto' feature to show what's good about it and what's bad.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 07, 2021
- 01:52 PM
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