Slow Mist founder Cosine posted on the X platform that someone was posing as a Slow Mist employee to cheat, poison, and steal coins, alerting users to pay attention. Mr. Cosine added that he had enough information about the people involved, including another active X account, to advise him to return the stolen funds.
On January 22nd, according to Slow Mist Cosine's post on x, according to @realScamSniffer's feedback, the recent phishing fraud in the Solana ecosystem has shifted to stealing mnemonic words. With a large number of new users flooding into the Solana ecosystem, these users have become the main victims and suffered serious losses in capital.
On January 17, 23pds, the chief information security officer of Slow Mist Technology, said on the X platform that it had recently detected a data breach of a third-party service used by a leading trading platform, involving a large amount of employee information, including email, password and other sensitive data. The relevant situation has been synchronized to the relevant parties for processing. The end of the year is approaching, reminding everyone to be vigilant and pay attention to the safe...
On January 13, the SlowMist security team released an investigation report confirming that the screenshots of the chat related to the scamming case of actor Wang Xing were forged. The group name in the screenshot is "Fufu Special Group, the buyer places a bet of 14000u". The screenshot mentions that Wang Xing has boarded the car, and the so-called guarantee fee is 14,000 USDT, accompanied by a cryptocurrency address used to collect the guarantee fee. The on-chain data shows that the TRON address...
Security agency SlowMist recently released the "Blockchain Security and Anti-Money Laundering Annual Report 2024", which states: According to SlowMist Hacked, there were 410 security incidents in 2024, with a loss of $2.013 billion. Compared with 2023 (464 incidents, with a loss of about $2.486 billion), the loss decreased by 19.02% year-on-year. DeFi remains the most commonly attacked area. In 2024, there were 339 DeFi security incidents, accounting for 82.68% of the total number of security in...
According to the statistics of the security agency Slow Mist, among the top 10 running incidents in 2024, ZKasino, IBXtrade, and Essence Finance ranked among the top 3 in the amount of $33 million, $21.80 million, and $20 million, respectively. It is worth mentioning that Cosine said: "Most of the top 10 running events in 2024 (I am not sure whether they will be returned later) should not be people projects, and it is not necessary to treat people projects completely."
SlowMist Cosine commented on the "zombie concept coin" on the X platform. He said: "I don't know about the rest, but Forbes must be full of huge misunderstandings about Monero (XMR)... completely unaware of the'charm 'of this king of the dark web, black hard currency, privacy steel plate..."
For community users, "SlowMist's statistical results are one of the four key steps for DEXX victims to get money". SlowMist Cosine responded: "The'SlowMist Statistics' transaction is not a serial relationship with several others, because the general loss has basically been disclosed in the two or three days after the incident (the stolen market value was greater than $21 million at that time), and the subsequent increase is almost all small losses. If there is still a large amount, we...
According to SlowMist Cosine's post on the X platform, a user will send the private key to the phishing website after writing the bot with GPT code. The reason why the private key was stolen is because the private key was sent directly to the phishing website in the HTTP request body. Cosine reminds that when using LLMs such as GPT/Claude, you must pay attention to the general deception of these LLMs. AI poisoning attacks were mentioned before, and now this is a real attack case against the Cryp...
Slow Mist founder Cosine issued a message on X to remind Radiant Capital users to cancel the authorization of some addresses in time to avoid secondary damage.