TRON Blames Social Engineering Attack To Hacked X Account
TRON’s official X account was compromised on May 2, and the team has now confirmed that the attack was due to a social engineering attack. The hackers utilized the account to advertise a contract address and allegedly sent direct messages to users and followed suspicious accounts before TRON took back control. Related Reading: Crypto Founder […]
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Popular digital currency forum BitcoinTalk has been taken offline following a social engineering attack that resulted in a server compromise. The attack is said to have targeted the site's ISP, a company called NFOrce that is based in the Netherlands. During a social engineering attack, an attacker tries to manipulate the target with the goal of convincing them to divulge passwords or other sensitive information. The compromise was announced via the official BitcoinTalk Twitter account. Operator Theymos later took to the bitcoin subreddit to offer a more detailed explanation, writing: "The....
The price of Bitcoin has just hit $860 and social engineers are at it again. The attacker who recently hacked Bo Shen’s account draining his REP and ETH funds, though some were later recovered, has been named in yet another hit on the Ethereum forum on December 16. Ethereum says the hacker gained unauthorized access to a database backup from April 2016 from forum.ethereum.org which contains information of about 16,500 forum users including both public and private messages of users, IP-addresses, usernames, email addresses and profile information. The hacker also accessed hashed passwords -....
An opportunist using the name “DoubleFlag” has put the recently hacked BitcoinTalk.org’s database for sale on the dark web, according to Hackread. The same seller has also offered 68 million hacked hashed passwords of Dropbox users. In May 2015, BitcoinTalk was the victim of a social engineering attack after an unknown hacker targeted an employee of NFOrce, BitcoinTalk’s ISP. In a revelation on Reddit at the time, forum operator and administrator Theymos hinted that password hashes, private messages, emails and other user details could be compromised. User Data Exposed. As it turns out,....
Yuga Labs, the team behind the popular non-fungible token (NFT) collection Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), lost access to their Instagram account. The team confirmed that their profile on this social media was hacked which allow the attackers to post links to a copycat website which led to fake Airdrops. Related Reading | All You Need […]
Following a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that targeted its server yesterday, European bitcoin exchange operator BTC-e continues to be offline. Bitcoin and alt.coins exchange BTC-e was knocked offline for several erratic hours yesterday. Users took to social media to speculate the reasons for the cause of the attacks with some stating that BTC-e was hacked, rather than being the target of a DDoS attack. In providing some clarity with the situation, the exchange’s Twitter account revealed: Furthermore, concerns raised from whispers of a hack seem to be unfounded with no real....