Hack

289 Articles 6 Followers


About Blockfi app and the European supercomputers - a hacker story

19 May 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Heruvim78

Most probably you know about the latest series of attacks on few European supercomputers, mainly used for medical research in universities, some related to Coronavirus. Wink, wink, we do not know which country is against the research to find the orig...

The DAO hack that lead to the creation of Ethereum (ETH)

10 May 2020 3 minute read 4 comments MarcusAbuboo

  So in this article I’m going to discuss how Ethereum transpired. Now I have been invested in Ethereum for a while now but in all honesty I have never known how it actually came about.  I know it is a fork of Ethereum Classic but how? and why? Maybe...

Ethereum Whale Alert: Upbit hackers transfer around 11,798 ETH - dump danger?

9 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments CRYPTOUS

Again and again investors fall for scams around Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies. Sometimes there is no scam behind it, but a hack of a larger exchange. Cryptocurrencies worth several billion USD have been stolen over the past few years. ...

DForce Attacker Returns All $25 Million in Stolen Funds after Tracing

21 Apr 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

The hacker who stole $25 million from the dForce platform on April 18 and 19 has returned all of the funds, following an investigation which showed that the attacker had not thoroughly covered his or her tracks.  Reports are emerging that state the a...

Victims of Cryptopia hack will receive compensation of $ 100M

9 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Nogelyax2

Victims will be reimbursed! Cryptopia was a New Zealand exchange particularly known for its listing of small cap cryptocurrencies. In January 2019 Cryptopia was the target of a $ 16 million hack. Cryptopia had been placed in liquidation in May 2019 f...

The developer from Pyrofex hacked a file with USD 300,000 in BTC

6 Apr 2020 1 minute read 5 comments bestdaro

Michael Stay, a former Google software engineer and current Pyrofex CTO, says he successfully hacked a zip file containing private keys to over $ 300,000 in bitcoin (BTC) cryptocurrency. In a blog post, Stay says that it all began when he received a...

Stakecube close to coming back online after the hack!

26 Feb 2020 1 minute read 1 comment DaniBom

One of my favorites platform, Stakecube, was victim of a small hack a few days ago; a good amount of their native coin SCC was stolen, plus some BTC, DOGE, LTC and DASH. The team liquidated their DASH Masternode to cover the losses and funds are alre...

Systems and users ... how many stories!

22 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments 7R5

When working with systems used by many users, although they are in the same workplace, they often meet people who are unable to understand the technical problems they use. I manage many systems, some developed by me others by suppliers, others newer...

IOTA has been hacked! Act now to protect your IOTA. Here is what to do.

19 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Tomatosoup

Since receiving several reports of missing funds on the 12th of February 2020 the IOTA Foundation has been investigating an attack. In a series of posts to its status page, they have revealed details of the investigation and steps taken to halt the a...

IOTA Trinity wallet hack!

16 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments LCrypto

  The attack announcement On 12 February IOTA announced that they are investigating suspicious activity on Trinty, and advised users not to open or use the Trinity wallet.     On 13 February IOTA has has shut down its network, talking about a coordi...