In its initial report on the Oct. 29 theft, the exchange describes a months-long campaign that ended with a stolen deployment token and an Ethereum EIP-7702 trick on an MPC hot wallet.
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BTCPay founder Nicolas Dorier said the attacker logged in as admin on instances that appear to be running versions before 2.4.2, and the project later said its investigation had pinned down the attack vector.
A compromised developer laptop and 50 pre-signed transactions let North Korea drain $6.3 billion from Binance. Jonty and Pablo Sabbatella trace how it happened.
In its initial report on the Oct. 29 theft, the exchange describes a months-long campaign that ended with a stolen deployment token and an Ethereum EIP-7702 trick on an MPC hot wallet.
Jonty, founder of Pangolin Intelligence, said in an Unchained episode recorded Nov. 2, while 10 chains were still halted, that a node operator voting to switch THORChain back on would be doing so “knowingly,” expecting North Korea to launder billions in stolen money; THORNode data showed Bitcoin, Ether and Tron swaps running again by 3:50 p.m. ET on Nov. 3.
A compromised developer laptop and 50 pre-signed transactions let North Korea drain $6.3 billion from Binance. Jonty and Pablo Sabbatella trace how it happened.
The change keeps validator deposits pending at the Gloas fork from being credited to a builder that shares the same key, a scenario its author called a conditional finding, not a live exploit.
Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.
A compromised developer laptop and 50 pre-signed transactions let North Korea drain $6.3 billion from Binance. Jonty and Pablo Sabbatella trace how it happened.
Rob Hadick guest-hosts for a second week with Tom and Robert, joined by Nemil Dalal of Y Combinator. Hours before the show, Binance lost an estimated $5 billion in what looks like the largest hack in crypto history, Circle and Tether froze funds faster than anyone expected, YC lays out its crypto Request for Startups, and ICE signs with trade.xyz to bring regulated perps built on Hyperliquid’s technology to US customers.
Rob Hadick guest-hosts in Haseeb’s seat with Tom, Tarun, and Robert. A 48-hour wave of disclosures that security experts are calling Black October hit PHP, Node, Railway, and the Linux kernel, banks from JPMorgan to Schwab start blocking AI agents while Bernie Sanders calls to pause AI, Joe Weisenthal comes around on Hyperliquid, and Visa is rumored to be buying Fireblocks.
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