Category: Cryptocurrency

• 14 July, 2022
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Hackers Stole $620 million from Axie Infinity via Fake Job Interviews

The hack that caused Axie Infinity losses of $620 million in crypto started with a fake job offer from North Korean hackers to one of the game’s developers. The attack happened in March 2022 and pushed into the ground the then massively popular and quickly-growing game from Sky Mavis. By April 2022, the FBI was able to link

• 17 May, 2022
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Fake Pixelmon NFT Site Infects you with Password-stealing Malware

• 15 May, 2022
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Crypto Thief Threatened to Cut Man’s Fingers ‘one by one,’ Stole £34K

Online crypto scams and ponzi schemes leveraging social media platforms are hardly anything new. BleepingComputer has previously reported on crypto thieves abusing Instagram for running ‘investment’ scams that people could and have fallen for. But, this gruesome case of a London-based crypto robber transcends the virtual realm and tells a shocking tale of real-life victims who were coerced into paying £34,000 in

• 18 April, 2022
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FBI Links Largest Crypto Hack Ever to North Korean Hackers

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned the address that received the cryptocurrency stolen in the largest cryptocurrency hack ever, the hack of Axie Infinity’s Ronin network bridge. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said two North Korean hacking groups, Lazarus and BlueNorOff (aka APT38), were behind last month’s Ronin hack.