BlockThreat - Week 32, 2019

Blockchain Village | Binance | Coinbase | APT41

For those of you still recovering from BlackHat/Defcon conferences, I am happy to report that the Blockchain Security village was a real success! Featuring about two dozen high quality talks and two competitions running in parallel it felt like a conference within a conference. Watch out for Defcon releasing conference recordings in the next few weeks to check out some of the talks. There are also a number of security talks coming up during the upcoming Berlin’s blockchain week covered below.

In other news, Binance was a hot topic with an extortion attempt and a cache of leaked KYC data, U.N. report on North Korea raising funds through hacking every cryptocurrency exchange and bank it can get to, an excellent APT 41 report on a Chinese nation-state actor targeting cryptocurrency industry when it’s not busy running espionage operations, and plenty of new malware to watch out for.

News:

• North Korea took $2 billion in cyberattacks to fund weapons program: U.N. report - a report discussing a…