Hackers stole more than $12 million worth of cryptocurrency from the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Cork Protocol this past week. Company co-founder Phil Fogel said all activity on the platform has been paused. “There was a security incident affecting the wstETH:weETH market at 11:23 UTC today. All other Cork markets have been paused as a precaution, and no other markets have been impacted,” the company later said in a statement. “We are actively investigating the situation and will c
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Cryptocurrency-related businesses have been targets of North Korean-affiliated threat actors for some time now, with multiple campaigns aiming to steal funds and/or insert backdoor malware into targets. In April 2023, researchers detailed an APT campaign targeting macOS users with multi-stage malware that culminated in a Rust backdoor capable of downloading and executing further malware on infected devices. ‘RustBucket,’ as they labeled it, was attributed with strong confidence to the BlueNoroff
