Bitmart seeks restraining order to prevent hackers from selling fake BSV
The owner of crypto exchange Bitmart has asked a New York judge to intervene to prevent hackers from selling the fraud-begotten coins on the open market. The owner of crypto exchange Bitmart has filed a bid for pre-arbitration injunctive relief to prevent Chinese hackers from making illicit transfers using fraudulent Bitcoin SV (BSV) on its platform. According to a July 26 report, GBM Global Holdings, Bitmart’s owner, filed its bid with a New York federal judge despite the fraudulent activities largely taking place out of state. The company has argued that the Southern District Court of....
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Bitmart, a cryptocurrency exchange, suffered an attack yesterday that exploited some security vulnerabilities in order to gain access to the funds of the exchange. The attack targeted the hot wallets of the platform, specifically the Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain-based wallets. The hackers managed to take almost $200 million in tokens from the platform.
Bitmart Hot Wallets Exploited
Bitmart has lost more than $200 million in a hack that involved its hot wallets yesterday. The issue was first identified by Peckshield, a blockchain security and auditing company, that raised the....
“After an attempted attack yesterday, some serious hashing power was unleashed today at 11:46 am and attackers are succeeding,” said Lucas Nuzzi of Coin Metrics, referring to the Bitcoin SV chain. Bitcoin SV (BSV) has reportedly suffered a “massive” 51% attack beginning around 11:45 am Tuesday, resulting in up to three versions of the chain being mined simultaneously.Analytics provider Coin Metrics confirmed Tuesday afternoon that its FARUM risk management platform had identified the 51% attack. FARUM has identified a 51% attack today on the BSV network at around 11:45AM....
Over the weekend, hackers made away with nearly $200 million in 20 different tokens. Following a near $200 million hack on the BitMart exchange, the Shiba Inu (SHIB) community and crypto exchange Huobi Global aim to help the exchange strengthen security and track inflows of stolen assets.On Dec. 5, crypto exchange BitMart became victim to a hot wallet compromise hosted over the Ethereum (ETH) and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) blockchains. As a result, the hackers were able to steal over $196 million, roughly $100 million over the Ethernet network and around $96 million over the BSC....
BitMart, a premier global digital asset trading platform, is one of the pioneering exchanges to integrate with the Polygon network and support the Polygon ecosystem. BitMart only supported MATIC ERC-20 token payments in the past, however, with this new integration, all BitMart users can transfer funds directly to the Polygon PoS network more efficiently. Polygon […]
Reddit has removed ads impersonating the Trezor shop, the most recent incident of fake bitcoin websites that scam users. Trezor advertises its bitcoin wallet as a secure home for bitcoin, but that does not prevent scammers from capitalizing on its name for malicious purposes. The Reddit administrators removed the ads more than 12 hours ago, according to a Reddit post. Reddit readers who notice malicious ads are encouraged to email Reddit at /r/r/reddit.com. Reddit Users Sent To Fake Site. Reddit users were directed to a cloned version of the Trezor site, according to The Merkle. Any order....