Banks across the euro zone are being told to increase their cyber defenses with the region’s regulator saying the issue should be a top priority amid heightened geopolitical tensions. “We are asking [banks] to strengthen their cyber regime measures and look at a potential ...Read More

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

The cryptocurrency platform targeted in a massive heist is now inviting the hacker behind it to become an advisor to the firm, and promising a $500,000 reward for the restoration of user funds. Poly Network, a so-called decentralized finance or “DeFi” project, was hit ...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

Hackers have started returning some of the $600 million they stole in what’s likely to be one of the biggest cryptocurrency thefts ever. The cybercriminals exploited a vulnerability in Poly Network, a platform that looks to connect different blockchains so that they can work ...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

On May 22nd, a crypto finance project called DeFi100 posted a message to its website: “We scammed you guys and you can’t do shit about it. HA HA. All you moon bois have been scammed and you can’t do shit about it.” Screenshots of ...Read More