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Ethereum blockchain analytics firm Nansen asks a subset of its users to reset passwords following a recent data breach at its authentication provider. Nansen is a popular entity in the cryptocurrency space, offering users insights into Ethereum wallet activity, helping identify emerging projects, and generally helping people make informed investment decisions.
Scammers are impersonating the bankruptcy claim agent for crypto lender Celsius in phishing attacks that attempt to steal funds from cryptocurrency wallets. Over the past few days, people have reported receiving phishing emails pretending to be from Stretto, the Claims Agent for the Celsius bankruptcy proceeding.
Telegram, the widely used messaging app, has unveiled an integrated crypto wallet feature, allowing users to effortlessly access their cryptocurrency holdings. The revelation came amidst the TOKEN2049 conference, where the TON Foundation and Telegram publicly announced their partnership.
Retool, the company behind the popular development platform for building internal business software, has suffered a breach that allowed attackers to access and take over accounts of 27 cloud customers, all in the crypto industry. According to a CoinDesk report, one the known victims is Fortress Trust, i.e., four of its customers who accessed their crypto funds via a portal built by Retool.
A legitimate Windows tool used for creating software packages called Advanced Installer is being abused by threat actors to drop cryptocurrency-mining malware on infected machines since at least November 2021. "The attacker uses Advanced Installer to package other legitimate software installers, such as Adobe Illustrator, Autodesk 3ds Max, and SketchUp Pro, with malicious scripts and uses Advanced Installer's Custom Actions feature to make the software installers execute the malicious scripts," Cisco Talos researcher Chetan Raghuprasad said in a technical report.
Online cryptocurrency casino Stake.com announced that its ETH/BSC hot wallets had been compromised to perform unauthorized transactions, with over $40 million in crypto reportedly stolen. The threat group was linked to the theft of $35 million from Atomic Wallet in June, $60 million from Alphapo in July, and another $37.3 million from CoinsPaid also in July.
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed an indictment against two founders of the now-sanctioned Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer service, charging them with laundering more than $1 billion in criminal proceeds. Tornado Cash is estimated to have processed upwards of $7 billion worth of crypto assets over a period of three years.
Two founders of Tornado Cash were formally accused by US prosecutors today of laundering more than $1 billion in criminal proceeds through their cryptocurrency mixer. As a cryptocurrency mixer, Tornado Cash is appealing to cybercriminals as it offers to provide them a degree of anonymity.
The FBI warned that North Koreans are likely readying to cash out tens of millions worth of stolen cryptocurrency out of hundreds of millions stolen in the last year alone. "The FBI believes the DPRK may attempt to cash out the bitcoin worth more than $40 million dollars."
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