Cybersecurity firm Hacken has blamed a private key leak that allowed a bad actor to mint and loot $250,000 worth of the ecosystemâs native Hacken Token (HAI), causing it to plummet around 99% on Saturday.In an X post, Hacken said the private key was
Memecoins promoted by political figures like Donald Trump, lax regulations, and crypto court cases abandoned by US regulators have kicked off a crypto âcrime supercycle,â say a pair of blockchain crime investigators. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT p
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North Korean hackers linked to the $1.4 billion Bybit exploit are reportedly targeting crypto developers using fake recruitment tests infected with malware. Cybersecurity outlet The Hacker News reported that crypto developers have received coding ass
Crypto exchange Bybit repaid 40,000 Ether it borrowed from Bitget within three days, after a $1.4 billion hack disrupted the crypto exchange on Feb. 21.Bybit was exploited on Feb. 21 in what has been reported as one of the largest cryptocurrency hack
The cryptocurrency community is divided over the root cause of the Bybit hack, with Bitcoin advocates like Adam Back attributing it to the âmis-designâ of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), while others argue operational security failures were to bl
Crypto exchange Bybit appears to have snapped up nearly 266,700 Ether worth $742 million across two days after it was hacked for $1.4 billion, according to blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain.A Bybit-linked wallet address â0x2E45...1b77â bought 157