For Tanja Vidovic, it was a moment of panic: She had received a series of alerts about someone changing access to her cryptocurrency account. And she realized, as she stared at her computer screen, that nearly all of her $168,000 in holdings was gone ...Read More

Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid said Thursday it has been hit by a cyberattack that saw hackers make off with a reported $97 million worth of digital coins. Liquid said some of its digital currency wallets had been “compromised,” and that hackers were transferring the assets to ...Read More

A person claiming to be the hacker behind one of the biggest cryptocurrency heists of all time says the theft was done “for fun.” More than $600 million worth of crypto was stolen in the cyberattack, which targeted a decentralized finance platform called Poly Network. ...Read More

Accenture, the global consulting firm, has been hit by the LockBit ransomware gang, according to the cybercriminal group’s website. Accenture (ACN)’s encrypted files will be published by the group on the dark web on Wednesday unless the company pays the ransom, LockBit claimed, according to ...Read More

A British man was arrested Wednesday in Spain in connection with the 2020 hack of Twitter accounts belonging to Apple, President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, Tesla chief Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and more than 100 others to swindle their followers out of bitcoin, the Justice ...Read More

According to a PwC survey, 56% of top executives questioned ranked cybercrime as the main challenge to sector, with the pandemic and over-regulation seen as less of a threat, at 51% and 50%, respectively. This is a remarkable increase since 2016, when only 33% ...Read More