In an announcement on Friday, BitMEX said its security team had successfully blocked a social engineering attack by the Lazarus Group, a North Korea-linked hacking group. "Recently, an employee was contacted via LinkedIn to collaborate on the NFT marketplace Web3 project with the aim of inducing victims to run the project's code containing malicious code on their computers," BitMEX said. The employee promptly identified the risk and went to...
Tapioca DAO suffered major security bugs. About $4.40 million of cryptocurrency was stolen by the attackers, and the price of TAP tokens plummeted by more than 95%. The attackers obtained private keys through social engineering, resulting in a large amount of funds being transferred. Despite this, the team worked with security agencies to successfully transfer 1,000 ETH (about $2.70 million) to a safe location to avoid greater losses. At present, the hackers still hold some of the stolen assets,...