Polymarket confirms cyberattack on third-party provider after outages
The company suffered outages starting at 2pm EST on Thursday and eventually attributed the downtime to a compromise involving an unnamed provider.
The company suffered outages starting at 2pm EST on Thursday and eventually attributed the downtime to a compromise involving an unnamed provider.
Prediction market platform Polymarket temporarily suspended trading on Thursday after hackers compromised a third-party service to distribute cryptocurrency-draining JavaScript, with approximately $2.5 million in assets traced to a suspected attacker wallet. [...]
In this article What’s happening What is ARTEX? Mitigation and protection guidance References Learn more As early as September 2026, Storm-0940, a China-state aligned actor, used the agentic AI penetration testing framework ARTEX to automate attacks targeting hundreds of organizations globally across a broad range of industries. Several of these Storm-0940 ARTEX-driven attacks have resulted in the actor obtaining privileged access to an organization’s cloud infrastructure – including multiple…
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Ledger cryptocurrency wallets sold through a Southeast Asian reseller had an implant allowing outsiders to drain funds, the company said.
Ledger has confirmed that some of its devices distributed through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis were compromised with a hardware implant that drained users' cryptocurrency wallets. [...]
Elastic Security Labs identified a malicious npm package, @apexacc/cli, which led us to an operation posing as a Web3 accelerator. That operation had spent months building a public presence, targeting cryptocurrency start-ups and founders with offers of free AI credits and coding tools, along with security audits. The group also advertised an in-person event through a dedicated invitation page, adding to its efforts to appear legitimate. The tools delivered information-stealing malware and…
An attacker breached an email marketing platform and launched targeted attacks against the newsletter subscribers of some of its customers, especially those working in cryptocurrency and adjacent fields. The incident was a supply-chain phishing campaign carried out through Brevo, an email marketing provider used by several cryptocurrency companies and other firms. Brevo initially said an attacker had gained access to 120 customer accounts, some of which were used to send phishing emails to the…
Trezor has revealed that phishing attacks against its customers earlier this week targeted 347,000 email addresses and affected 2,500 users who clicked an embedded malicious link. [...]
Trezor warned customers on Wednesday that threat actors who breached its third-party email provider are targeting them in phishing attacks. [...]
Subscribers to newsletters from Trezor, CoinTracking and BitBox received corrupted messages through an email provider that all three companies use.
Cryptocurrency hardware wallet maker Trezor says an August data breach at its shipping and logistics provider, ShipMonk, affects an additional 67,000 U.S. customers. [...]