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Mixin Network confirmd on Monday that it has "Temporarily suspended" all deposit and withdrawal services after hackers broke into a database and stole about $200 million in funds from the Hong-Kong based cryptocurrency firm. In a statement posted on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, the digital biz said the incident happened early Saturday morning, when "The database of Mixin Network's cloud service provider was attacked by hackers. After initial verification, the funds involved are approximately US$200 million."
Kosi Goodness Simon-Ebo, a 29-year-old Nigerian national extradited from Canada to the United States last April, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering through business email compromise. According to the plea agreement, the scammers had a high success ratio of roughly 1 to 7, making one million out of the almost seven million they attempted to steal.
The North Korea-affiliated Lazarus Group has stolen nearly $240 million in cryptocurrency since June 2023, marking a significant escalation of its hacks. According to multiple reports from Certik, Elliptic, and ZachXBT, the infamous hacking group is said to be suspected behind the theft of $31 million in digital assets from the CoinEx exchange on September 12, 2023.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday warned that threat actors affiliated with North Korea may attempt to cash out stolen cryptocurrency worth more than $40 million. North Korea is known to blur the lines among cyber warfare, espionage, and financial crime.
Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan on Thursday pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges related to the 2016 theft of some 120,000 Bitcoins from Hong Kong-based Bitfinex. The Feds arrested Lichtenstein, 35, and Morgan, 33, in February 2022 following the US government's tracing of about 95,000 of the stolen BTC - worth about $3.6 billion at the time and $2.8 billion today - to digital wallets controlled by the married couple.
Blockchain analysts blame the North Korean Lazarus hacking group for a recent attack on payment processing platform Alphapo where the attackers stole almost $60 million in crypto. [...]
The North Korean criminal gang Lazarus Group has been blamed for last weekend's attack on Atomic Wallet that drained at least $35 million in cryptocurrency from private accounts. The researchers added that the "Stolen assets are being laundered using specific services, including the Sinbad mixer, which have also been used to launder the proceeds of past hacks perpetrated by the Lazarus Group." In addition, the stolen assets were mingled in wallets that also hold cryptocurrency stolen in previous attacks by the Lazarus Group.
The notorious North Korean hacking group known as Lazarus has been linked to the recent Atomic Wallet hack, resulting in the theft of over $35 million in crypto. The attack on Atomic Wallet occurred last weekend when numerous users reported that their wallets were compromised and their funds had been stolen.
Intel is investigating reports that BootGuard private keys, used to protect PCs from hidden malware, were leaked when data belonging to Micro-Star International was stolen and dumped online. It's understood the private keys were generated by MSI to use with Intel's BootGuard technology, and were among internal source code and other materials taken from the computer parts maker's IT systems last month - at least some of which has since been shared on the internet.
Health data and other personal information of members of Congress and staff were stolen during a breach of servers run by DC Health Care Link and are now up for sale on the dark web. Szpindor called the incident "a significant data breach" that exposed the personal identifiable information of thousands of DC Health Link employees and warned the Representatives that their data may have been compromised.