The majority of these accounts all had 2FA on leaving people confused how this might happen.
7/ The hacked Twitter accounts lead to millions of dollars worth of crypto stolen in total.
This table shows a rough estimate for the amount of crypto stolen with each account in the Tweet above.
8/ This lead to a post on the forum marketplace SWAPD by the user “Antihero” advertising a Twitter panel.
The prices to use the panel varied from $30k to $300k paid in crypto.
9/ On Twitter at July 29th 2022 antihero emerged with the name “Cam” on an account inactive for 14 yrs.
On Instagram he obtained the same username too.
10/ On Instagram Redman posted a selfie of himself posing in front of mirror and also outside of a shopping center.
11/ I zoom in and then look up the location of “Sunway Dental”
What do you know it happens to be in Missauga, ON very close to the Hamilton Police station in the city where Redman had been previously arrested in Nov 2021.
12/ If you’re still not convinced here’s more messages of him referencing Canada.
Prior to being charged for the SIM swap Redman had been also known by the aliases “Cream” “4k” “lucky” and for leaking unreleased Juice WRLD songs.
16/ Who bought the Twitter panel access from Redman? Well it was the scammers known as HZ/Chase and Popbob. Here’s HZ flexing panel access to @Serpent (a security researcher)
17/ HZ + Popbob flexing Franklin and Deekay being hacked.
18/ It’s still unclear as to how Redman gained access to the panel to make elevated requests & reset passwords. As of now it appears the method stopped working
It’s wild someone can SIM swap a person for $37m, only return $5.4m, & go back to their old ways w/o serious jail time
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1/ My recent investigation uncovered more than $16.58M in payments since January 1, 2025 or $2.76M per month has been sent to North Korean IT workers hired as developers at various projects & companies.
To put this in perspective payments range from $3K-8K per month meaning they have infiltrated 345 jobs on the low end or 920 jobs on the high end.
2/ Here’s a look into one of the six clusters I have been monitoring and was able to attribute 8 different DPRK ITWs that obtained roles at 12+ projects.
I traced out the payment addresses from the table to two consolidation addresses.
1/ Multiple projects tied to Pepe creator Matt Furie & ChainSaw as well as another project Favrr were exploited in the past week which resulted in ~$1M stolen
My analysis links both attacks to the same cluster of DPRK IT workers who were likely accidentally hired as developers.
2/ On Jun 18, 2025 at 4:25 am UTC ownership for ‘Replicandy’ from Matt Furie & ChainSaw was transferred to a new EOA 0x9Fca.
Jun 18, 2025
6:20 pm UTC: 0x9Fca withdrew mint proceeds from the contract
Jun 19, 2025
5:11 am UTC: 0x9Fca unpauses the mint
The attacker then minted NFTs and sold into bids causing the floor price to fall to zero.
3/ On Jun 23, 2025 the attacker transferred ownership from the ChainSaw deployer to 0x9Fca for Peplicator, Hedz, Zogz.
Similarly the attacker minted NFTs and sold them into bids causing the floor price to fall to zero.
1/ An investigation into how the New York based social engineering scammer Daytwo/PawsOnHips (Christian Nieves) stole $4M+ from Coinbase users by impersonating customer support, bought luxury goods, and lost most of the funds gambling at casinos.
2/ Daytwo operates a small call centre group and also works as a caller.
His group primarily coerced targets into setting up Coinbase wallet with a compromised seed on phishing sites.
Below is a video of his panel used and a sample of his voice when calling.
1/ In late 2023 a former Yuga Labs security researcher was stopped at the airport after law enforcement mistakenly linked them to a $1.1M phishing theft from a Bored Ape owner.
Here’s an investigation into where the stolen funds went and who’s actually responsible.
2/ In Dec 2022, a victim had 14 X BAYC NFTs phished in a social engineering scheme where purchased X accounts were used to convince the victim they wanted to license the IP rights for a film.
The scammer directed the victim to a phishing site where they had them sign a message draining their assets.
3/ In Sep 2023, Sam Curry a well known whitehat and former Yuga Labs security engineer was detained at the airport by law enforcement for questioning and was served with a grand jury subpoena (later dropped).
In reality as part of his security work at Yuga, he had been investigating the theft and used a private key put in the JavaScript of the website by the threat actor.
LE then had mistakenly reviewed logs from OpenSea which included his home IP address and used this to incorrectly link him as the suspect.
1/ An investigation into the alleged identity of the mysterious Hyperliquid whale tied to illicit activity that profited ~$20M via highly leveraged positions over the past couple weeks.
2/ A trader opened multiple highly leveraged positions on Hyperliquid and GMX from Jan - Mar 2025.
They gained lots of attention this month after two onchain trades:
-Large ETH & BTC long position on 50X leverage just before Trump’s crypto reserve announcement by 0xe4d3 ($10M profit)
-Large BTC short position on 40X leverage by 0xf3F4 ($9M profit)
3/ I went and identified the main counterparties of 0xf3f:
1/ Over the past few months I imagine you have seen many Coinbase users complain on X about their accounts suddenly being restricted.
This is the result of aggressive risk models and Coinbase’s failure to stop its users losing $300M+ per year to social engineering scams.
2/ Myself and @tanuki42_ spent time reviewing Coinbase withdrawals and gathering data from my DMs for high confidence thefts on various chains.
Below is a table we created which shows $65M stolen from Coinbase users in Dec 2024 - Jan 2025.
Our number is likely much lower than the actual amount stolen as our data was limited to my DMs and thefts we discovered on-chain which does not account for Coinbase support tickets and police reports we do not have access to.
3/ Let’s walk through how these Coinbase social engineering scams work.
A victim reached out to me last month after losing ~$850K.
Graphing out this theft lead to a consolidation address with 25+ other victims tied to ‘coinbase-hold.eth’.