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Tech

Hacking Crypto Wallets Is Latest Strategy in Quest to Recover Lost Billions

A company called Unciphered works to recover lost crypto funds by auditing code and finding vulnerabilities in wallets.

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Policy

FTX Being Advised by Cybersecurity Firm Sygnia on Hack Inquiry, CEO Ray Says

The crypto exchange’s current chief executive blasted weak cybersecurity controls at the company under Sam Bankman-Fried’s leadership.

FTX CEO John J. Ray III (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Policy

Alleged Mango Markets Exploiter Eisenberg Is Working to Negotiate Bail Following First NY Court Hearing

Avraham Eisenberg has publicly admitted to draining $116 million from the crypto exchange.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

AllianceBlock Token Plunges 51% After $5M Exploit of Bonq DAO

New ALBT tokens will be minted and airdropped to the affected wallet addresses.

Cypher Protocol suffers exploit (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Copper Alerted to Security ‘Incident’ Over Christmas

Copper said some “concerning behavior” had been detected, and that a “machine-generated alert had been triggered.”

A Copper-branded keychain (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Stargate to Reissue STG Tokens Following Alameda Wallet Hack

STG token's price rose 14% following news the token would be reissued in March.

Evmos, a connector between the Cosmos and Ethereum blockchains, raised $27 million. (Billy Huynh/Unsplash)

Web3

NFT Collection Azuki’s Twitter Account Hacked, Leading Followers to Malicious Link

Hoshiboy, the co-founder of the popular anime-inspired project, told CoinDesk the team is in touch with Twitter to resolve the issue.

Azuki NFT collection. (OpenSea)

Web3

Kevin Rose's NFT Wallet With 40 High-Value Collectibles Hacked

The Proof CEO was the victim of a phishing scam that drained millions of dollars worth of rare tokens, according to one estimate.

Chromie Squiggles (Art Blocks)

Finance

Swapping More Than $157M of ETH for stETH and Levering Up, the Wormhole Network Exploiter Is a DeFi Degen

The address that hacked one of the most popular cross-blockchain bridges Wormhole started moving capital in the DeFi ecosystem.

Cypher Protocol suffers exploit (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

Finance

Harmony Hackers Cover Tracks by Bridging Portion of $100M Loot to Avalanche, Ethereum and Tron

The hackers are using privacy wallets and cross-chain bridges to obfuscate stolen funds.

(John Noonan/Unsplash)