On Oct. 31, 2025, the Radiant exploiter transferred roughly 5,411.8 ETH to Tornado Cash, a transfer price roughly $20.7 million. Nine days earlier, the identical cluster had moved roughly 2,834.6 ETH, equal to $10.8 million, after staging funds throughout chains and thru swaps earlier than the mixer. Neither burst seemed hurried. Both seemed like a…
North Korea-linked hackers stole greater than $2 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, surpassing each prior 12 months on file, whereas international legislation enforcement recovered $439 million and arrested tons of of cash launderers throughout 40 nations in a single four-month operation. The collision of file state-sponsored heists and coordinated multilateral enforcement raises a sharper query…
The United Kingdom is weighing measures that might compel Apple to supply entry to some iCloud knowledge, elevating a exact query for crypto customers who preserve wallets on iPhones and Macs. If system backups and customary file shops lose end-to-end protections within the UK, seed phrases and private key materials can extra simply transfer from…
Japanese mining pool operator SBI Crypto has suffered a $21 million theft in a breach that investigators are linking to North Korea attackers. On Oct. 1, blockchain researcher ZachXBT identified uncommon outflows from the agency involving Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Bitcoin Cash. According to his findings, the funds moved rapidly by means of 5…
The hacker who drained UXLINK in a high-profile exploit has mockingly turn into a victim of crypto crime himself. On Sept. 23, blockchain safety platform Scam Sniffer reported that the attacker misplaced roughly 542 million UXLINK tokens, valued at greater than $50 million, to a phishing scheme executed by one other unhealthy actor. SlowMist co-founder…
A crypto whale misplaced greater than $6 million in staked Ethereum (stETH) and Aave-wrapped Bitcoin (aEthWBTC) after approving malicious signatures in a phishing scheme on Sept. 18, in accordance to blockchain safety agency Scam Sniffer. According to the agency, the attackers disguised their transfer as a routine pockets affirmation by way of “Permit” signatures, which…
An unidentified crypto investor has misplaced over $3 million in a extremely coordinated phishing assault after unknowingly authorizing a malicious contract. On Sept. 11, blockchain investigator ZachXBT first flagged the incident, revealing that the sufferer’s wallet was drained of $3.047 million in USDC. The attacker shortly swapped the stablecoins for Ethereum and funneled the proceeds…
Venus Protocol quickly suspended its platform on Sept. 2 after a person misplaced tens of tens of millions of {dollars} in a focused phishing incident. The pause adopted reports from blockchain safety agency Cyvers, which flagged a suspicious transaction draining almost $27 million from a single pockets. In accordance with studies, the stolen belongings included…
A single phishing assault drained practically $1 million price of tokens from a crypto investor who unknowingly signed a batch of malicious transactions disguised as Uniswap swaps, based on blockchain safety agency Rip-off Sniffer. In an Aug. 22 post on X, Yu Xiang, founding father of blockchain safety agency SlowMist, famous that the incident concerned…
Coinbase, the largest US-based exchange, has reportedly lost $300,000 to MEV bots following a misconfiguration involving 0xProject’s token swap platform. On Aug. 13, pseudonymous security researcher Deebeez revealed that Coinbase mistakenly used the 0x swapper to approve tokens, a function it was never designed for. He noted: “0x has a swapper which is never meant…