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A hacker briefly gained access to Litecoin’s X social media account to fraudulently promote that LTC is now available on the popular smart contract platform Solana (SOL). In a new thread, the developers of the decentralized peer-to-peer network warn investors about the breach but note that the team immediately regained access to Litecoin’s official X account. “Litecoin’s X account was briefly compromised today and posts that were not authorized were published. These were live only for a matter of seconds before being deleted. We’re still investigating the issue, but immediately found a delegated account that was compromised and removed it. We apologize for any confusion caused.” A screenshot of the incident shows that the scammer posted a message using Litecoin’s X account to falsely claim that LTC “is now [on] Solana.” The bad actor added a link that takes users to what appears to be a rug pull scam. Accordin...

AT&T reportedly paid a Hack er 5.7 Bitcoin s worth $373,646 to film themselves deleting tens of millions of customer phone calls and texts stolen from the US-based telecommunications giant. The company revealed on Friday that the data of “nearly all” of its 109 million AT&T Wireless customers was stolen by the ShinyHunters crypto ransomware group in April through its account at cloud data firm Snowflake. According to WIRED, a 5.7 bitcoin transaction took place on May 17. This was confirmed by the head of global investigations for the crypto-tracing firm TRM who added that the money was being laundered through various crypto exchanges and wallets.   WIRED reports that the Hack ers had originally demanded $1 million before AT&T negotiated to bring the ransom down to less than $400,000.  Snowflake student data seller lowers $2M bitcoin ransom demand to $150K Read more: Compound Finance and Celer Network websites compromised in ‘front-end’ attacks Accordin...

Multi-chain trading platform Thunder Terminal has suffered a hacker attack, saying a malicious actor gained access to a MongoDB connection. In an X post on Dec. 27, Thunder Terminal acknowledged the breach, stating that the hacker gained access to a MongoDB connection URL. This access allowed the intruder to retrieve session tokens and execute withdrawals on behalf of users. The attack concluded at 12:20 AM UTC, Dec 27, after all session tokens and transaction signing access were revoked for security reasons, Thunder Terminal said. Incident Report At 12:11:47 AM UTC, suspicious withdrawals started getting sent through Thunder wallets. A malicious actor got access to a MongoDB connection URL which they used to pull session tokens and execute withdrawals on behalf of users. At 12:20:35 AM UTC, the last… — Thunder (@ThunderTerminal) December 27, 2023 While Thunder Terminal assured users that no private keys or wallets were compromised, the team admitted that “less than...

The hacker’s wallet with more than $100K worth of USDT was blacklisted and frozen, while the Victim had been drained for almost $170K worth of NFTs and other assets. With the help of police and cyber authorities, a victim of a hack worth 90 Ether (ETH) has gotten the attacker’s Tether (USDT) address black listed . As a result, they may be able to get most of their funds back. [2023/08/11 17:30] USDT black listed 0x788bc56b67c289399cd6e2022f0d76484f04724a in block 17893148 https://t.co/WipjkHXFGp — usdt blacklist (@usdtblacklist) August 11, 2023 The victim, who goes by @l3yum on X (Twitter), was initially drained on March 16 after the hacker managed to get a hold of their hot wallet seed phrase. Several Yuga Labs-related NFTs were stolen, alongside some crypto and other NFTs from smaller projects, and then promptly swapped or sold off. In an Aug. 11 X thread, L3yum highlighted that the hacker’s Ethereum-based USDT address had been blacklisted, as he noted that: “Today after ...

Twenty-three days after the hack, on April 4, Euler Finance announced the total possible recovery of the lost funds, thus ending the $1 million bounty. After being robbed of $196 million in a flash loan attack, Euler Finance has convinced its hacker to return most of the funds. The outcome resulted from numerous back-and-forths over 25 days, eventually leading the hacker to do “the right thing.” On March 13, the Euler Finance hacker carried out multiple transactions, each draining millions of dollars in various tokens, including DAI (DAI), USD Coin (USDC), staked Ether (StETH) and wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC). 111 Funds stolen from Euler Finance. Source: BlockSec As a result, Euler’s total value locked inside its smart contracts has dropped from over $311 million to $10.37 million. Ultimately, 11 different decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, including Balancer, Yearn Finance and Yield Protocol, either froze or lost funds. At 10:00 UTC Balancer contributors became aware of an exploit on ...