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North Korean ties suspected in Indexed Finance treasury attack

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On-chain sleuth ZachXBT says an alleged North Korean cybercriminal might be behind the attack against Indexed’s treasury. A cybercriminal allegedly associated with DPRK initiated a hostile proposal on Nov. 18, targeting the remnants of Indexed Finance. This defunct decentralized protocol for passive portfolio management on Ethereum (ETH) suffered a $16 million attack in 2021. Hi everyone, There's currently an ongoing hostile governance attack taking place against the remnants of the Indexed Finance treasury – 36K in DAI and approx. 48K in NDX before slippage. I never thought I'd have to post about Indexed governance again (it's been two years since… pic.twitter.com/mUUVMDnq4Q — laurence (@functi0nZer0) November 18, 2023 According to an Indexed Finance team member, Laurence Day, the hacker initiated a proposal seeking to get control over the protocol’s treasury, holding $36,000 in DAI and nearly $48,000 in NDX, a governance token for Indexed Fi...

Coin Cloud security breach exposes thousands of user data

Hackers are said to have gained access to such private data as SSNs, emails, and phone numbers for more than 300,000 customers of Coin Cloud. An unknown cybercriminal (or a group of hackers) has reportedly gained unauthorized access to personal data for over 300,000 customers of the now-defunct Bitcoin (BTC) ATM provider Coin Cloud. An unknown Threat Actor(s) claim to have compromised Coin Cloud. They allege to have exfiltrated 70,000 customer selfies (via ATM cameras), and 300,000 customers PII which includes Social Security Number, Date of Birth, First Name, Last Name, e-mail address, Telephone Number,… pic.twitter.com/TJ7RUK18Yq — vx-underground (@vxunderground) November 12, 2023 In an X post on Nov. 12, researchers for the malware repository vx-underground said the hackers have allegedly exfiltrated 70,000 customer selfies, which were made with Bitcoin ATM cameras for KYC verification. You might also like: Are Bitcoin (BTC) ATMs a menace? In addition, the cyber...