BlockThreat - Week 7, 2021

Verge | EXMO | Cryptopia | Primitive | Hashmask | ForTube | Dexter

Last week we saw a record-setting 51% attack against Verge with more than 560K blocks orphaned. Cryptopia continues getting hacked even as it’s going through liquidation, EXMO and other exchanges are getting DDoSed, first of a kind NFT vulnerability discovered by samczsun, Iranian Antminers are getting bricked, and more in this week’s edition of Blockchain Threat Intelligence.

Events

• Unchained Security Conference will be live streamed starting February 26th.

Crime

• US DoJ issued indictments against three North Korean military hackers involved in various criminal schemes including hacking of cryptocurrency companies, development of fake cryptocurrency applications (CryptoNeuro Trade, Kupay Wallet, CoinGo Trade, Dorusio), ransomware (WannaCry 2.0), Marine Chain ICO and other schemes.

• Kia Motors America suffered a ransomware attack by the DoppelPaymer gang which demand 404.5833 BTC.

• Ten individuals associated with a SIM-swapping gang arrested. The gang stole more than $100M in cryptocurrency.

• Fi…