There was an uptick of scam reports this week ranging from Estonia’s massive cleaning operation, fake Elon Musks, and a fake Privnotes site. Malicious Monero miners are still hacking everything they can get their hands on from Azure Kubernetes servers to vulnerable SQL and Windows boxes. Also, a big oops on Filecoin’s testnet where miners exploited an inflation bug to mint millions.
In other news, Craig Wright may have just self-incriminated himself into hacking Mt. Gox by claiming ownership of one of the attacker’s BTC addresses.
Hacks
A theory that the recent high fee transactions on Ethereum network were part of the exchange blackmail campaign.
Vulnerabilities
Inflation Bug discovered and exploited by 6Block on Filecoin’s Testnet with several accounts now holding a billion each. No additional details are available on the vulnerability; however, it appears that the bug is exploitable by miners.
Scams
A massive crackdown on Estonia’s cryptocurrency companies involved in money laundering and…
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