By Wayne Jones On August 9, a bridge connecting the XRP Ledger and Coreum (now rebranded as tx) lost close to 200,000 XRP after an attacker tricked its deposit-checking system into treating a wallet-to-wallet transfer as a real deposit. The bridge has since halted, and both the operator and outside researchers have traced the failure […]
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By Wayne Jones Arthur Hayes published a new essay this week arguing that the US Treasury and Japan’s Ministry of Finance have settled on a single method to strengthen the yen: running newly printed dollars through the Federal Reserve’s currency swap facility. Hayes says the mechanics point to a wave of dollar liquidity hitting the […]
By Chayanika Deka Prominent blockchain investigator ZachXBT identified Tiffany Milanovich as a US-based threat actor tied to at least $5 million in thefts through hardware wallet and centralized exchange support impersonation scams. He said Milanovich worked as a “caller” and posed as exchange or wallet support, convincing victims to give up access to their funds. […]