Can’t people just stop trading that specific coin? Or just say it’s now worth 1$?
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2025
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This was a targeted attack against a cryptocurrency exchange. The specific crypto happened to be Ethereum (ETH), but more importantly the hackers were able to identify and target the specific employees needed for their multi-signature transactions, and infect their machines with malware to alter the user interface and show different destination wallet addresses. The exchange Bybit has offered a 10% bounty which could earn whitehats up to $140 million for any funds recovered, but I would be very surprised to see huge success with the use of mixers and such.
The record haul comes as Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s supreme leader, turns to elite units of computer hackers to prop up the Communist dictatorship’s failing economy.
I'm no apologist for NK, but this sentence is glaringly missing a nod to Western sanctions that caused the failing economy. It's mentioned some paragraphs later, but I can't not notice the subtle propaganda.
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