Russian Operator of BTC-e Crypto Exchange Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering

A Russian operator of a now-dismantled BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges from 2011 to 2017. Alexander Vinnik, 44, was charged in January 2017 and taken into custody in Greece in July 2017. He was subsequently extradited to the U.S. in August 2022. Vinnik...

Global Retailer BuyGoods.com Leaks 198GB of Internal and User PII, KYC data

By Waqas Hailing from Wilmington, Delaware BuyGoods.com boasts a user base of 3 million consumers spanning across 17 countries. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Global Retailer BuyGoods.com Leaks 198GB of Internal and User PII, KYC data...

Finclusive, Verida, and cheqd Launch Reusable KYC/KYB Solution

By Owais Sultan Finclusive, Verida and cheqd Launch Pioneering Solution For Reusable And Verifiable KYC/KYB Credentials. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Finclusive, Verida, and cheqd Launch Reusable KYC/KYB Solution...

Indian ISP Hathway Data Breach: Hacker Leaks 4 Million Users, KYC Data

By Waqas While Hathway hasn't commented yet, analysis of the leaked data by Hackread.com suggests the breach may be authentic and could have serious consequences for affected individuals. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Indian ISP Hathway Data Breach: Hacker Leaks 4 Milli...

Social engineering attacks lure Indian users to install Android banking trojans

Microsoft has observed ongoing activity from mobile banking trojan campaigns targeting users in India with social media messages designed to steal users’ information for financial fraud. Using social media platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram, attackers are sending messages designed to lure users...

Who’s Behind the 8Base Ransomware Website?

The victim shaming website operated by the cybercriminals behind 8Base -- currently one of the more active ransomware groups -- was until earlier today leaking quite a bit of information that the crime group probably did not intend to be made public. The leaked data suggests that at least some of...

Crypto exchange Fiatusdt leaked trove of users KYC data

By Habiba Rashid The database was exposed due to a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Crypto exchange Fiatusdt leaked trove of users KYC data...

Liquidation bots are needed to stabilize the system.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Allowing liquidation bots to arbitrage would stabilize the system. The majority of liquidations are done by liquidation bots. For liquidation bots to be viable there has to exist a secondary market where the assets can be instantly sold. This is especial...

Admin should be able to refund or redeem the sanctioned users

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Sanctioned user's funds are locked Proof of Concept It is understood that the sanctioned users can not mint nor redeem because the functions requestMint and requestRedemption are protected by the modifier checkKYC. And it is also understood that the...

If completeRedemptions is called multiple times to redeem one epoch, the complex calculation may result in incorrect redemptions

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact When MANAGERADMIN calls the completeRedemptions function, it requires that both redeemers and refundees have KYC. If the redeemer loses KYC, the redeemer's address will not appear in redeemers and refundees, otherwise completeRedemptions will fail...

Anybody can initialize claimMint of others people

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact this can cause poor management of the tokens on the go, without the end customer being aware that any other person will be able to start the claim process without the consent of the owner of the tokens. This is caused by the fact that a KYC check is made...

Reuse of signature to get KYCd after it has been removed

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact There is no time limit on the validity off KYC digests and users with a removed KYC are not saved. If a issuer of such a digest is either compromised or if they by mistake issue a digest with a deadline far into the future a user could reuse the same...

KYC signature can be reused to regain KYC status

Lines of code Vulnerability details The function addKYCAddressViaSignature of the KYCRegistry contract allows a user to be granted a KYC status using a signature provided by Ondo. The function validates that the signer has the corresponding role for the requirement group and adds the user to the...

Indian Govt Orders Organizations to Report Security Breaches Within 6 Hours to CERT-In

India's computer and emergency response team, CERT-In, on Thursday published new guidelines that require service providers, intermediaries, data centers, and government entities to compulsorily report cybersecurity incidents, including data breaches, within six hours. "Any service provider,...

Indian Brokerage Firm Upstox Suffers Data Breach Leaking 2.5 Millions Users' Data

Online trading and discount brokerage platform Upstox has become the latest Indian company to suffer a security breach of its systems, resulting in the exposure of sensitive information of approximately 2.5 million users on the dark web. The leaked information includes names, email addresses, dat...

MobiKwik Suffers Major Breach — KYC Data of 3.5 Million Users Exposed

Popular Indian mobile payments service MobiKwik on Monday came under fire after 8.2 terabytes TB of data belonging to millions of its users began circulating on the dark web in the aftermath of a major data breach that came to light earlier this month. The leaked data includes sensitive personal...

MobiKwik Suffers Major Breach — KYC Data of 3.5 Million Users Exposed

Popular Indian mobile payments service MobiKwik on Monday came under fire after 8.2 terabytes TB of data belonging to millions of its users began circulating on the dark web in the aftermath of a major data breach that came to light earlier this month. The leaked data includes sensitive personal...

Binance Confirms Hacker Obtained Its Users' KYC Data from 3rd-Party Vendor

As suspected, the KYC details of thousands of Binance's customers that hackers obtained and leaked online earlier this month came from the company's third-party vendor, Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance confirmed. For those unaware, Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange b...

Binance KYC Data Leak — Crypto Exchange Sets $290,000 Bounty On Blackmailer

Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance has become a victim of a ransom demand from a scammer who claimed to have hacked the KYC Know Your Customer data of thousands of its customers. The unknown attacker threatened the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume to release KYC...

Binance KYC Data Leak — Crypto Exchange Sets $290,000 Bounty On Blackmailer

Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance has become a victim of a ransom demand from a scammer who claimed to have hacked the KYC Know Your Customer data of thousands of its customers. The unknown attacker threatened the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume to release KYC...