Soteria September Update

Security Incidents

Exchange Side

A total of 1 typical safety incident occurred

The decentralized exchange nowswap was hacked and lost more than $1 million.

DeFi Aspect

A total of 8 typical security incidents occurred

1.DeRace was attacked by the DAO Maker distribution system, resulting in some tokens being stolen and sold by hackers.

2. A vulnerability in the NFT market OpenSea caused at least 42 NFTs to be sent to a destruction address, valued at at least $100,000.

3. According to the official Zabu Finance on the Avalanche chain, the attacker withdrew 4.5 billion ZABU tokens and made a dumping profit of approximately $600,000.

4. Arbitrum, the expansion network of Ethereum, was downtime due to a vulnerability. The problem has been located and fixed.

5. The DONA token auction on the SushiSwap platform MISO was attacked and the loss exceeded 3 million U.S. dollars.

6. The cross-chain protocol pNetwork was attacked due to code vulnerabilities and lost approximately USD 13.08 million.

7. The loan agreement Vee. Finance officially confirmed that more than 35 million US dollars of assets have been stolen, and the stable currency has not been affected.

8. The Bitcoin Foundation website bitcoin.org was attacked by hackers, and the “Double Return Bitcoin” scam appeared on the homepage. The attacker stole more than 17,000 US dollars.

Fraud / Encryption Scam

A total of 14 typical security incidents occurred

1. Glenn Arcaro, the initiator of the encrypted Ponzi scheme Bitconnect, has pleaded guilty and has been ordered to pay $24 million in compensation.

2. The Public Security Bureau of Baotou City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region cracked a case of using virtual currency to run money laundering, involving a turnover of more than 80 million yuan.

3. Finiko, a Russian Ponzi scheme, has accumulated funds of over US$1 billion and is expected to suffer hundreds of thousands of users.

4. Seychelles police investigate the case of 230,000 bitcoin transfers related to the suspected OneCoin Ponzi scheme.

5. An English man lost more than $700,000 in BTC due to a Bitcoin trading scam posted on YouTube.

6. A virtual currency fraudster in South Korea was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison.

7. The police in Taiwan, China, arrested 14 suspects involved in investment scams, involving a total of 5.41 million U.S. dollars.

8. Zhejiang Dongyang City tried and pronounced a series of digital currency fraud cases involving more than 380 million yuan, 171 people were sentenced, and thousands of victims.

9. The former New York Stock Exchange broker admitted to planning a $33 million cryptocurrency investment scam.

10. Bitcoin scammers tricked 165,000 people into watching fake Apple conferences.

11. The founder of crypto hedge fund Virgil Capital was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for operating a Ponzi scheme.

12. The Public Security Bureau of Chenggu County, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province investigated and dealt with an illegal transaction of virtual currency in accordance with the law.

13. The Public Security Bureau of Dongying City, Shandong Province successfully detected a virtual currency investment fraud case and arrested 6 criminal suspects.

14. A California resident lost more than 11 million U.S. dollars when he was stolen from Coinbase account credentials by scammers.

Ransomware/mining Trojans

A total of 3 typical security incidents occurred

1. A 46-year-old garbage collector from the Russian city of Tyumen faces 10 years in prison after stealing bitcoin mining equipment from his employer.

2. A senior government employee in New York was arrested for using work equipment to illegally engage in cryptocurrency mining.

3.10,100 virtual currency mining machines were seized in Bayannaoer City, Inner Mongolia.

Other Aspects

A total of 2 typical security incidents occurred

1.OpenZeppelin’s TimelockController contract fixes a reentrancy vulnerability, which is the only serious vulnerability that OpenZeppelin has in its open-source smart contract library.

2. A man in Leicestershire, England, used Bitcoin to fund IS and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

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