Reports are surfacing that a cryptocurrency exchange has been drained of $234 million.
Indian crypto exchange WazirX’s Safe Multisig wallet on the Ethereum network has apparently been compromised, per data from CYVERS.
A total of $234.9M has been moved to a new address. Each transaction’s caller is funded by TornadoCash.
PeckShield also reported about this exploit in a recent tweet.
The suspicious address has swapped PEPE, GALA, and USDT to ETH and continues to swap other digital assets.
The U.S. Department of Justice has sentenced Dwayne Golden, 57, of Pennsylvania to 97 months in prison for orchestrating a fraudulent crypto investment scheme that stole over $40 million from investors.
The first half of 2025 has become the most damaging six-month period in crypto history, with over $2.1 billion stolen across 75+ separate incidents, according to new data.
A new breed of cyber-attack is sweeping through crypto media, exploiting site pop-ups and wallet-connect prompts instead of smart-contract bugs.
CoinMarketCap, one of the most widely used crypto data tracking platforms, is reportedly facing a front-end security breach, with multiple users encountering a suspicious prompt to verify their wallets.