Weekend Roundup: Dark Markets Go Down, Bitcoin Tips Go Viral, and a 100-BTC Bounty is Put on a Hacker
Without a doubt, this week’s biggest story was the international crackdown on dark markets called Operation Onymous. The operation included the FBI shutting down Silk Road 2, with at least 10 other black markets going down, as well. “[Silk Road’s alleged] operator, Blake Benthall, who according to one Gawker story, was a former employee at SpaceX, was reportedly arrested in San Francisco almost exactly one year after Silk Road 2.0 went live on November 6, 2013,” Carlo Caraluzzo reported Thursday. “The site is now offline and visitors to the site are met with an official police warning that....
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Back in September, we reported on a blackmailer/hacker who had been DDOS attacking the popular bitcoin sports book Nitrogensports.eu and then blackmailing them into paying a ransom for it to stop. Today, we have been informed by Bitalo.com, a “multi-signature wallet and decentralized exchange” with that they are the latest victim of attacks by the same hacker. The site was offline for two days before coming back online shortly before publishing. Bitalo.com's owners have informed us that rather than give into the hacker's demands, they will be putting up a bounty on the hacker who goes by....
A hacker targeting Roger Ver has given up his attempts to access the angel investor's accounts after a 37.6 BTC bounty was issued for his arrest. In a Facebook post earlier this morning, Ver said he was seeking information about the hacker "who is trying to steal all my stuff at the moment". The bounty is currently worth around $20,000. He also revealed the hacker is using the Skype username 'nitrous'. He posted a similar message on Twitter: 37.6 BTC reward for information that leads to the arrest of the hacker that is trying to hack all my stuff at the moment. details to come! - Roger Ver....
Cross-chain protocol Mixin Network has offered the hacker behind the $200 million exploit a $20 million bug bounty reward to return the stolen assets. Mixin Woos Hacker With $20 Million Bug Bounty According to blockchain security firm Peckshield, the bug bounty offer was communicated as an on-chain message, with Mixin urging the bad actor to […]
The Solana DeFi protocol suffered a $117 million exploit on Oct. 11, and the hacker wants 70M USDC in "bug bounty." On Wednesday, one day after $117 million was drained from Solana DeFi platform Mango Markets via a price feed exploit, the hacker responsible for the attack demanded a settlement. The proposal was filed on the Mango Markets decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) governance forum. If passed, the procedure would involve the hacker sending stolen Mango Markets (MNGO), Solana (SOL), and Marinade Staked SOL tokens to an address provided by the Mango DAO team. Users without....
Over 98% of voting tokens favor the deal, which also stipulates that Mango Markets won't pursue criminal charges. Following a $117 million exploit on Oct. 11, the Mango Markets community is set to make a deal with its hacker, allowing the hacker to keep $47 million as a bug bounty, according to the decentralized finance (DeFI) protocol governance forum. The proposed terms reveal that $67 million of the stolen tokens will be returned, while $47 million will be kept by the hacker. 98% of the voters, or 291 million tokens, have voted in favor of the deal, which also stipulates that Mango....