Black Hat Hacker

Amazon was forced to eat its words after suffering a major security breach just days after announcing its vision of "making neighbourhoods safe again".

North Korean hackers have secretly taken jobs inside crypto firms, posing as developers and IT staff to gain access from within. Investigations have found hundreds may be working in the industry, with some linked to thefts and scams using insider permissions.

North Korea-linked hackers stole $3.2 million in crypto from Solana wallets and moved the funds to Ethereum. They laundered nearly $2 million using Tornado Cash, with over $1 million still sitting in an Ethereum wallet.

Iran’s biggest crypto exchange, Nobitex, was hit by a major cyberattack linked to an Israeli hacker group, causing losses of around \$90 million and major service disruption. The platform is now restoring wallets in phases with stricter ID checks, while facing growing pressure from regulators and users.

A British national, Kai West, known online as IntelBroker, was caught and indicted for working with an online cybercrime group CyberN***gers to steal data and sell them online in exchange for cryptocurrency.

A British man, Kai West, was arrested in France for allegedly running a major cybercrime ring under the alias "IntelBroker" and leaking stolen data from over 40 organisations. US investigators linked him to the crimes through a small Bitcoin payment that traced back to his real identity.

Cointelegraph and CoinMarketCap were hacked through front-end attacks that showed fake airdrop pop-ups to steal users’ crypto. The scams tricked visitors into connecting wallets, letting attackers drain funds using hidden malicious code.

Cointelegraph, a crypto news platform, has been hacked to promote a ICO Airdrops and CTG Token. But as soon as users link their wallets, their funds would immediately be drained.

A Japanese crypto influencer was hacked after joining a deepfake Zoom call where a fake friend sent her a malicious link. Her Telegram and Metamask accounts were breached, leading to the theft of her crypto assets.

The group infiltrated Nobitex’s internal systems and instead of pocketing the stolen funds to thier own crypto wallets, the hackers sent them to a burner addresses with no private key access, effectively locking the digital asset away with no way of making them retrievable.