Hack Attack

A hacker drained $86,000 from UNCX's shared vesting pool on Ethereum, pulling out tokens other projects had locked away. The post Hacker Pulls $86,000 in Locked Tokens From a Shared Crypto Vault appeared first on BeInCrypto.

The suspected attacker behind South Korea’s recent bank breaches asked an AI coding tool where breach data sells. CrowdStrike found the request in session logs stored in open directories on attacker-controlled servers. Several South Korean banks have disclosed customer data leaks over the past week. CrowdStrike’s October 7 report says the campaign used a Chinese-built…

A jury convicted the hacker who stole $53 million in crypto and spent it on Pokémon cards. He faces up to 30 years. The post Crypto Hacker Who Spent Stolen Millions on Pokémon Cards Found Guilty in New York appeared first on BeInCrypto.

Attackers stole approximately $387.5 million from Bitget on September 24 by manipulating its internal withdrawal process. According to Chainalysis, the attack was carried out by North Korean hackers.  So, is Bitget now safe to use? What if the next hack is bigger? And what security measures are the exchange taking? BeInCrypto sat down with the…

ZachXBT posed as a scammer to infiltrate a Chinese crew accused of laundering most of Bybit’s $1.5 billion for North Korea. His launderer repaid him with Kim Jong-un updates, dinner photos, and a mahjong invitation. The investigator says the intel helped freeze funds and attribute Bybit flows. He fronted $349,700 of his own money and…

Chainalysis has attributed the $387 million Bitget theft to North Korean hackers. The firm said the attack lifts the value of crypto stolen by DPRK-linked actors this year above $1 billion. North Korean attackers reportedly used a cross-chain swap to convert stolen XRP into Bitcoin and kept the tokens away from exchanges. Drift, KelpDAO and…

INTERPOL’s global chief information security officer, Bjorn R. Watne, has urged companies to identify their “crown jewels” first as artificial intelligence (AI) increases the speed and scale of scams and fraud. Watne made the remarks to CNBC at Tech Week Singapore on Thursday. He said AI mainly helps criminals run familiar tactics faster and at…

Crypto hack losses reached $766.49 million in September, making it the worst month of 2026 so far. The total jumped about 462% from August’s $136.3 million, according to PeckShield. Two incidents caused most of the damage. Bitget lost roughly $387 million. Liquid Network lost about $320 million, though the people behind it, claiming to be…

ZachXBT says Bitget hack launderers asked for help in public Discord and Telegram chats. One is tied to the Kelp DAO hack. The post Investigator Finds $387M Bitget Hack Suspects Asking for Help in Public Chats appeared first on BeInCrypto.

THORChain has declined to block stolen funds from the $387.5 million Bitget hack from being converted into Bitcoin, sparking industry debate over its permissionless cross-chain swap design.