US Treasury wants to cut off Huione over ties to crypto crime

US Treasury wants to cut off Huione over ties to crypto crime

The US Treasury has proposed cutting the Huione Group’s access to the US banking system, accusing it of being involved in laundering crypto. The US Treasury Department wants to block the Cambodia-based Huione Group from accessing the US banking system, accusing it of helping North Korea’s state-backed Lazarus Group to launder its crypto. The Treasury’s…

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Solana's Loopscale pauses lending after .8M hack

Solana's Loopscale pauses lending after $5.8M hack

The lost funds represent about 12% of Loopscale’s total value locked (TVL), according to the DeFi lending protocol’s co-founder. Solana decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Loopscale has temporarily halted its lending markets after suffering an approximately $5.8 million exploit.  On April 26, a hacker siphoned approximately 5.7 million USDC (USDC) and 1200 Solana (SOL) from the…

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MEV bot loses 0K in ETH from access control exploit

MEV bot loses $180K in ETH from access control exploit

Threat researcher Vladimir Sobolev told Cointelegraph that there’s been a rise in fraudulent MEV bot tutorials, leading users to lose their funds. A maximal extractable value (MEV) bot lost about $180,000 in Ether after an attacker exploited a vulnerability in its access control systems.  On April 8, blockchain security firm SlowMist reported that the MEV…

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