In a matter of days, FTX, a company valued at $32B at the beginning of this year, went from a leading cryptocurrency exchange to bankruptcy.
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2/ In the aftermath of FTX filing for bankruptcy we have seen the devastating impact the situation is having on a number of companies who had dealings with FTX.
3/ Some of the major companies hit by FTX’s collapse are:
Genesis Trading
Galaxy Digital
Galois Capital
BlockFi
Coinshares
Amber Group
Pantera Capital
Nexo
Voyager
4/ These 134 affiliated companies were included in FTX’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. See👇
1/ Let's break down the recent FTX Wallet Drainer activity.
The BSC wallet holds ~$1.6m DAI after converting ~44,232 BNB to ~$4m USDC, ~$3.5m USDT and $3.4m Binance Peg ETH.
The assets were then bridged over to ETH and sent back to FTX Accounts Drainer.
2/ Once the FTX Wallet Drainer amassed ~250k ETH, they began bridging funds to the Bitcoin Blockchain
On 20 Nov, 50k ETH was transferred to 0x866E which swapped ETH for renBTC.
Those assets were then bridged to the following addresses
Bc1qv…gpedg
Bc1qa…n0702
3/ BTC Bc1qv…gpedg began a peel chain.
This is a money laundering technique whereby BTC is sent through a series of transactions in which smaller amounts of BTC are transferred to a new address.
On October 11, 2022 at 11:19 PM UTC, Mango Market was attacked for a total loss of roughly ~$116M.
The attacker was able to manipulate the price of the MNGO token and exploitatively borrowed more assets than what they were supposed to be able to.
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1/ The attacker funded Account A with 4,999,998.95 USDC. Account A then sold 488,302,109 MNGO worth of perpetual swaps on Mango Markets, worth $18,653,140.
Account B bought 482,745,055 of the MNGO swaps.
2/ The attacker then began manipulating the price of MNGO on the spot MNGO/USDC market.
From a stable low of ~$0.038 prior to the attack, they pushed it up to a peak of $0.91.
The @FBI is raising awareness on BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), which it said has attacked around 60 entities worldwide from November 2021 to March 2022.
@FBI Rust offers the attackers opportunity to take advantage of a lower detection ratio from static analysis malware detection tools, which aren't adapted to all programming languages.