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Scammers promised LUNA tokens supposedly issued on Binance Network.
Fake Luna tokens were laundered by exchanging them for Tornado Cash. Currently, the smart contracts are empty.

The number of cryptocurrencies in circulation has more than doubled by 2021, prompting investors to be even more careful when investing in a new token and to do thorough due diligence before making an investment decision.

Animoca Brands announced that it would return the millions of dollars taken in a hacker attack against a Discord server of the game Phantom Galaxies.

There would be no guarantees that the perpetrator of the attack wiould return all of the stolen funds. The analysis firm SlowMist determined the vulnerability of the DeFi Poly Network that was exploited by the hacker. Now the Poly Network Hacker had returned more than US$256 Million in Cryptocurrency.

Defi Poly Network Protocol hacked and called on exchanges to “blacklist” the tokens after the attack. Being a protocol that involves several blockchains, the figure could be higher. The US$600 million is one of the worst blows to decentralized finance platforms.

Smart contracts and a supposed DeFi protocol were used on a DeFi scam which was then dismantled. The SEC ordered them to pay a compensation of USD 12.8 million. The Defi Company was Blockchain Credit Partners and they already returned the stolen money.

Conti Ransomware, hits the systems of one of the largest school districts in the United States. They were hacked by cybercriminals who encrypted the data and made a bizarre US$40 million ransom request to release the data.

User installs fake IOS app on the App Store and has 17 stolen bitcoins (BTC), equivalent to US$1 million.

Ether Miners, Last Wednesday (10), tweeted from an anonymous technology account, a screenshot of a panel with the following message: “Chinese‘ mod ’drug” to crack Nvidia hash limiter.

Another DeFi protocol fell victim to hackers. Cover Protocol has been exploited while its native token plunged 80% in minutes.