BlockThreat - Week 13, 2019

DragonEx | Bithumb | Lazarus | Gustuff

This week was filled with news of cryptocurrency exchanges in Asia getting hacked. Coincidentally, check out Kaspersky’s report on the Lazarus APT group and their efforts to attack crypto businesses in Asia. At this rate, exchanges experiencing outage must reassure their customers that they are safe (or may actually be hacked).

Hacks:

• DragonEx exchange hacked — a confirmed compromise on March 24th resulted in a loss of BTC, ETH, EOS, USDT, and other crypto assets worth $6 million. PeckShield published a great report on the movements of stolen funds and attackers’ addresses.

• Bithumb exchange hacked — $19 million worth of EOS and XRP assets were stolen on March 29th from Bithumb’s hot wallet in the reported insider attack (Korean). SlowMist team has documented the compromise timeline here.

• BiKi exchange hacked — On March 25th, BiKi reported $133,000 loss due due to a compromise of a 3rd party SMS code verification service(Chinese).

• Etbox platform hacked — On March 24th, Etbox reported a $132…