Hello, crocodiles of web3!

This week features a rare event of good guys catching some of the actors behind the Bitfinex exchange hack from almost 6 years ago. To balance this piece of good news, PayBito exchange fell victim to a ransomware attack, another $11M stolen from DeFi projects, Optimism and Coinbase patched critical bugs, and reports of insidious phishing/scam attacks below.

In other news, we are finally caught up on all the news! Thanks for your patience and see you in future, more regular editions of Blockchain Threat Intelligence.

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