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WazirX suspends withdrawals after $230 million worth of cryptos stolen in a hack

WazirX, India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange on Thursday reported a massive security breach on i…

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Google says crypto fraudsters are making it look bad

Google filed a lawsuit against two scammers it says tricked the company into accepting fraudulent a…

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One of the largest cryptocurrency swapping platforms just lost $1.3 million as users failed to update approvals

If you have got a problem, you have to fix it on your own, according to the company. Multichain …

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Hackers stole $322 million in 2022’s largest DeFi hack so far — $10 million is being offered for its return

Wormhole’s token bridge was hacked on February 2, and hackers stole Solana tokens worth $322 millio…

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OpenSea claims that its hack was never a hack, users fell for phishing scams

OpenSea was hacked, and then it wasn’t. The world’s largest NFT platform has since denied the rumou…

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Scammers are exploiting Google, Amazon and Apple’s services to steal crypto

Scams around Google, Amazon and Apple’s platforms have been recorded in the last six months. Scamme…

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Former Amazon engineer pleads guilty to stealing $12.3 million of crypto in first ever hacking case involving smart contracts

A former Amazon engineer pleaded guilty to hacking two crypto exchanges and stealing $12.3 million …

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Crypto isn't decentralized. It's actually run by a handful of big wigs exploiting low-paid workers, says long-time internet academic.

Crypto thrives on a "colonialist mindset" that features people at the top exploiting labor at the b…

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Crypto exchange Binance faces a US insider trading probe into whether it exploited its customer order data, report says

It intensifies the scrutiny of Binance by the CFTC, which is already reportedly reviewing it for de…

Shalini Nagarajan   


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Dogecoin scammers pocketed millions by exploiting Elon Musk's 'SNL' appearance through giveaway schemes on YouTube, a report says

During "Saturday Night Live," people who searched "Elon Musk SNL" on YouTube could see livestreams …

Shalini Nagarajan   


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Cryptos, DeFi are soft targets for cyber hackers says a Moody’s report

FTX, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange, is the latest victim of hackers who stole …

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Crypto losses reach $428 million in Q3 globally, hacks top concern

An analysis of the crypto losses by bug bounty platform Immunefi found that fraud accounts for o…

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Crypto lender Celsius is freezing withdrawals - after its founder promised to reinvent the financial system and never act like a traditional bank

Celsius froze withdrawals and transfers just a month after Terra's luna token crashed to zero, cont…

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A top ECB official is urging a global crackdown on the crypto market to prevent a 'lawless frenzy'

Fabio Panetta said the unregulated crypto market posed a risk to financial stability and policymake…

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Hackers steal crypto worth $180 million from Beanstalk Farms, a decentralized finance project

"Beanstalk suffered an exploit. The Beanstalk Farms team is investigating the attack and will …

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Crypto lender Celsius pauses account withdrawals and transfers as digital tokens plummet across the board

"We are taking this necessary action for the benefit of our entire community in order to stabilize …

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OpenSea is returning the millions users lost due to a bug

Hackers were able to exploit a bug to buy NFTs at much lower than their price, and relist them to s…

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Indian crypto exchanges, influencers fall prey to hacks promoting crypto scam

Exchanges like WazirX, CoinDCX and CoinSwitch Kuber were amongst the ones affected.YouTubers like A…

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North Korean hackers are likely laundering stolen crypto through cloud mining services, cybersecurity group says

The North Korean group APT43 steals tokens to fund illicit activity, according to a new report from…

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More than $120 million of a crypto firm's assets were moved to an unknown address - weeks after its CEO disappeared, report says

Multichain, a cross-chain router, said assets were moved to an unknown address "abnormally" and rec…

Zahra Tayeb