Official Microsoft India account on X (formerly Twitter)
June 3, 2024
•[ financial, hack, phishing ]
The official Microsoft India account on X (formerly Twitter), with over 211,000 followers, is hijacked by cryptocurrency scammers to impersonate Roaring Kitty, the handle used by notorious meme stock trader Keith Gill.
Undisclosed crypto investor
May 3, 2024
•[ financial, hack, phishing ]
An individual loses around $71 million worth of bitcoin in what appears to be an address poisoning attack. A week later the author of the attack returns the stolen bounty.
Loopring
June 9, 2024
•[ financial, misconfiguration, finance ]
Loopring announces a security breach involving its two-factor authentication service Guardian, affecting two wallets, with one of them was drained of about $5 million.
MediaWorks
March 17, 2024
•[ financial, hack, technology ]
MediaWorks, a company based in New Zealand, says it is investigating an alleged security incident after a hacker claimed to have stolen the data of just over 2.4 million people and began targeting individuals for extortion payments.
Kraken
June 19, 2024
•[ financial, misconfiguration, finance ]
The Kraken crypto exchange discloses that alleged security researchers exploited a zero-day website bug to steal $3 million in cryptocurrency and then refused to return the funds.
QuoteWizard
June 10, 2024
•[ financial, misconfiguration, finance ]
Financial services firm LendingTree confirms that QuoteWizard, one of its subsidiaries, was potentially affected by a cybersecurity incident following a wider attack on customers of data storage company Snowflake.
1,899 victims in Singapore
June 14, 2024
•[ financial, hack, malware ]
A Singapore police-led law enforcement operation dismantles a regional cybercrime ring that carried out malware-enabled scams to steal tens of millions of dollars from victims since 2023.
Pacific Guardian Life Insurance
April 25, 2024
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
Pacific Guardian Life Insurance says that 165,000 people had their financial info stolen in 2023 attack.
Munchables
March 26, 2024
•[ hack, financial, finance ]
The Munchables blockchain-based game is attacked, with about $62 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from the game. Few hours after the attacker agrees to return the stolen funds.
Somesing
January 27, 2024
•[ financial, exploit, finance ]
Somesing, a blockchain-based social karaoke platform in South Korea, suffers an exploit and loses 730 million of its native token SSX, which amounts to $11.58 million
Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA)
January 19, 2024
•[ financial, phishing, government ]
South Africa's railway agency (PRASA) discloses that it lost some 30.6 million rand (US$1.6 million) after the transport network fell victim to a phishing scam.
Pepco Group
February 27, 2024
•[ financial, retail ]
European discount retailer Pepco Group reveals that its Hungarian business has lost a significant amount of money (15.5 Million) to cybercriminals.
Individuals in China
February 20, 2024
•[ financial, malware, finance ]
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology warns local netizens that fake wallet apps for the nation's central bank digital currency (CBDC) are already circulating and being abused by scammers.
Socket
January 16, 2024
•[ financial, finance ]
Blockchain protocol Socket pauses some operations after a threat actor steals $3.3 million.
Jeff “Jihoz” Zirlin
February 23, 2024
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
Jeff Jihoz Zirlin, one of the co-founders of the video game Axie Infinity and the related Ronin Network has nearly $10 million in cryptocurrency stolen from personal accounts.
US Health Department
January 18, 2024
•[ financial, government ]
Threat actors stole about $7.5 million from the US Health Department, after accessing an HHS system that processes civilian grant payments.
CoinGecko’s X (formerly Twitter) account
January 10, 2024
•[ finance, phishing, hack ]
Cryptocurrency data aggregator CoinGeckos X (formerly Twitter) account is briefly compromised to promote a crypto scam.
Alkem Laboratories
January 12, 2024
•[ financial, manufacturing ]
Pharmaceutical company Alkem Laboratories confirms that a cybersecurity incident led to a fraudulent transfer of Rs 52 crore (USD 6.2M) from one of its subsidiaries.
Gamma Strategies
January 4, 2024
•[ financial, finance ]
Threat actors steal $3.4 million from DeFi protocol Gamma Strategies, forcing the company to halt deposits while withdrawals remain open.
NFT Trader
December 16, 2023
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
Peer-to-peer trading platform NFT Trader falls victim to a security breach resulting in the theft of nearly $3 million in non-fungible tokens.
