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ForkLog 25 14.11.2023

In six months, ‘Ethereum-wallet drainers’ stole $60 million

Hackers using a fragment of code to access the private keys of Ethereum addresses stole $60 million worth of cryptocurrency over six months.

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ForkLog 46 13.11.2023

Chinese hackers create a fake Skype app to steal cryptocurrencies

SlowMist researchers uncovered a counterfeit Skype app used by Chinese hackers to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars across various cryptocurrencies.

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ForkLog 18 13.11.2023

Hackers claim breach of bankrupt Coin Cloud Bitcoin ATM operator

An unknown hacker group claimed to have stolen 70,000 selfies and confidential data from 300,000 Coin Cloud bitcoin ATM customers.

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ForkLog 31 13.11.2023

Expert reports $27 million crypto wallet hack

On November 12, the attacker hacked a crypto wallet for a total of around $27 million in {{AOPEN_1}}stablecoin{{ACLOSE_1}} USDT. This was stated by on-chain sleuth ZachXBT.

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ForkLog 15 11.11.2023

Hacker incurs losses in Raft DeFi project hack

The Raft DeFi platform lost about $3.3 million in Ethereum following the hack. But the attack appears to have caused only losses to the attacker, according to analysts.

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ForkLog 19 10.11.2023

Poloniex hack losses top $100 million

On November 10, an unknown assailant attacked the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange. According to Arkham Intelligence, aggregate losses exceeded $124.5 million in digital assets.

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ForkLog 16 10.11.2023

Kraken converts $2 million in cryptocurrency to reimburse fraud victims.

The Kraken exchange assisted British police in recovering cryptocurrency stolen from IOTA users in 2018.

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ForkLog 39 09.11.2023

Expert suspects $2 million theft from CoinSpot exchange after hack

Two hot wallets belonging to the Australian cryptocurrency exchange CoinSpot are believed to have suffered a theft of 1,282 ETH (~$2 million) as a result of a hacker attack. This development, as suggested by on-chain sleuth ZachXBT. As evidence, two transactions were cited: in the first, 1262 ETH were sent to the address of the alleged attacker; five minutes later another transfer of 20.99 ETH followed. According to Etherscan, the hacker then swapped them for WBTC, USDC and USDT on Uniswap, THORchain and WBTC. Earlier in October, ZachXBT detected the movement of 4,800 BTC on the closed darknet market Abraxas. Later he logged earnings of $768,000 by the creators of a fake Ledger Live app from the Microsoft Store.

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ForkLog 21 06.11.2023

Unknown attacker drains Monero fund of about $452,000

The attacker attacked the Monero community's crowdfunding wallet, draining the entire balance of 2,675.73 XMR (~$452,200 at the time of writing).

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ForkLog 21 01.11.2023

Hackers drain $2.1 million from Onyx Protocol

The lending DeFi platform Onyx Protocol lost about $2.1 million following an exploit of an illiquid market deployed on October 27.

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ForkLog 22 01.11.2023

Report: October losses from hacks and scams fall to $51 million

Crypto-industry losses from 23 security incidents in October totalled $51.61 million, an 85.6% drop from the prior month, Beosin experts noted.

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ForkLog 27 31.10.2023

Unknown attacker hacked Unibot Telegram bot

On 31 October, the Unibot trading Telegram bot was compromised by unknown parties.

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