Author: Michael Johnson
258 victims’ personal data stolen from six public and financial portals. BTS star Jungkook targeted with 8.4B won HYBE stock theft attempt. 21.3B won in virtual assets stolen, 12.8B won recovered by police. South Korean authorities have uncovered one of the country’s largest cyber fraud cases, dismantling an international hacking ring that stole nearly 39 billion won from high-profile victims. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency confirmed that the group exploited weak security across government, IT, and financial platforms to steal data from 258 people, which was later used for large-scale SIM-swap fraud. The suspects targeted wealthy business leaders, lawyers, athletes,…
We are pleased to announce that Hsiao-Wei Wang is joining the Ethereum Foundation’s Board of Directors. The current board members now include Aya Miyaguchi (President) , Vitalik Buterin (Founder), Patrick Storchenegger (Swiss council) and Hsiao-Wei Wang (Co-ED). As this transition unfolds, the board will share further updates on its role and functions in the Ethereum Foundation. Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks. Source link
A few months ago, we announced a renewed focus of Protocol on three strategic initiatives: Scale L1, Scale blobs, Improve UX. Following previous updates on Scale L1 and Scale blobs, this note relates to our “Improve UX” track, and its mission: Seamless, secure and permissionless experience across the Ethereum ecosystem, for individuals and institutions. We see interoperability, and related projects presented in this note, as the highest leverage opportunity within the broader UX domain over the next 6-12 months, in our position as a public, core Ethereum R&D group. The near-term strategy focuses on areas we believe will continue to…
Ethereum trades above $4,600 as bulls target a breakout to $5,000 A surge in Ethereum ETF net inflows and broader crypto bounce give buyers an edge. Tom Lee has predicted the ETH price surging to $5,500 and possibly $10,000 in 2025. Ethereum price hovers at around $4,595, slightly down in the past 24 hours but above a key support level as bulls eye a potential breakout to $5,000. The outlook for ETH is thus largely bullish as renowned investor Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest bets on Ethereum’s future gains with a splash in BitMine Immersion Technologies. BitMine, an Ethereum-focused treasury firm,…