On Valentine’s Day, cybercriminals struck Duelbits Casino and Miner, pilfering significant sums of cryptocurrency. Duelbits Casino suffered a staggering $4.6 million loss due to a suspected compromise of private keys, allowing the attackers to siphon off funds. Similarly, Miner, a Web3 project, fell victim to an exploit during the festive season, resulting in losses of nearly 168.8 ETH, valued at over $463,000.
Both Duelbits Casino and Miner swiftly addressed the breaches, with the former cautioning its community about purchasing the newly released token MINER. Meanwhile, Miner’s team vowed to fix the exploited contract and conducted efforts to recover the stolen assets, appealing to the hacker through an on-chain message and offering a reward equivalent to 30% of the stolen funds.
Amidst these attacks, an unsuspecting cryptocurrency user also fell prey to phishing scammers who utilized deceptive transactions to siphon off $96,164 worth of Uniswap liquidity NFT. Furthermore, CertiK analyzed a recent rug pull incident involving XKingdom_Tech, labeling it as one of the largest exit scams seen in recent months. This scheme, which unfolded on the Arbitrum network, resulted in investor losses of up to $1.2 million, highlighting the ongoing threats faced by participants in the cryptocurrency space.
