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New data blockchain explorer Blockchair reveals that a hacker took advantage of an exploit in Dogecoin’s (DOGE) blockchain, causing the majority of its nodes to crash. Earlier this week, a Dogecoin monitoring platform noticed that the number of DOGE nodes dipped from 647 to just 205, a decrease of about 69%. “Our monitoring made us aware that the vulnerability appears to have been exploited, and almost 69% of the Dogecoin network has crashed. Blockchair shows the number of public nodes. Before, it was 647, and at the time of writing it is just 205.” However, according to Blockchair, some DOGE nodes have since recovered as there are currently 331 active nodes around the world at time of writing. In a recent thread on the social media platform X, Bitcoin (BTC) sidechain developer Andreas Kohl says that he was the one who took down most of the DOGE network using an old laptop. “I used a publicly disclosed vulnerability [by BTC developer Tobi...

The Hack er collective responsible for a 2021 attack on one of India’s biggest Crypto exchange s is demanding a ransom of $500,000 for over 1TB of customer data stolen from event ticketing giant Ticketmaster. On Tuesday, the ShinyHunters group posted its ransom demand on cybercrime platform BreachForums. The listing allegedly contains banking information, financial transactions, and personal details of 560 million Australian Ticketmaster users.  ShinyHunters previously hacked Indian crypto exchange BuyUCoin and stole data relating to crypto transactions, banking information, passwords, and personal details from its users. The group has also targeted Pizza Hut and Wattpad. Breaking: #Ticketmaster has allegedly been hacked by ShinyHunters, extracting 560M user details, ticket sales, orders, event info, and card data, per Hackread's @WAK4S. The total data is over 1.3 TB as per the hacker – There is a post about it on the #BreachForums as well. pic.twitter.com/jDmqunvl14 ...

The individual behind the 2022 attack on FTX has altered their strategy for laundering their stolen Ethereum into Bitcoin. On-chain analyst Lookonchain noticed on Oct. 6 that the person behind last year’s FTX hack had stopped using THORChain for moving their stolen assets and had begun to exploit the Threshold Network instead. Lookonchain’s data indicated that the attacker converted over 3,000 Ether (ETH), valued at $4.9 million, into tBTC via the Threshold network. Since then, per Lookonchain, the attacker has successfully converted about 75,636 ETH, valued at $124 million, into Bitcoin, while another 109,485 ETH, valued at approximately $180 million, remains in their wallet. After @THORSwap suspended swaps, FTX Exploiter started swapping $ETH for $tBTC and cross-chained to the Bitcoin network through @TheTNetwork. So far, FTX Exploiter has swapped 75,636 $ETH($124M) for BTC assets and cross-chained to the Bitcoin network. pic.twitter.com/ksIPBzRJ0d — Lookonchain (@lookonch...

Blockchain analysts warn of growing cooperation between Russia-based crypto exchanges and North Korea-linked hacking groups. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea hacker groups have been actively using Russia-based exchanges to launder crypto since 2021, as strict international monitoring of North Korea’s on-chain crimes limits the country’s possibilities of an enrichment capability. According to Chainalysis, a blockchain forensics firm, North Korean hacker groups are now “increasing their use of Russia-based exchanges” to launder crypto stolen from centralized exchanges or decentralized finance protocols. You might also like: North Korea linked to latest crypto hacks, surpassing $270m In a blog post on Sept. 14, the New York-based firm wrote that almost $22 million in crypto stolen from Harmony Protocol — a blockchain protocol exploited for roughly 100 million in crypto in Jun. 2022 — was recently transferred to a Russia-based exchange “...