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Tay 💖
@tayvano_
dont believe their lies 🦊 💖🗡️
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Oct 22 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1 year.

144 OKX Accounts.

263,000 deposits.

$2,940,000,000 dollars.

Thats 700 txns / $8 million dollars EVERY DAY.

Whatever you think you know abt OKX helping human-trafficking international scam compounds launder their money, it's so much worse. 😨

justice.gov/usao-dc/media/…Image
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Oct 18 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
I went through the addresses in the MilkSad list for this specific vuln to see what else was there.

There's 64 addresses in this batch.

The Chen Zhi/Lubian addresses were the only ones with real balances at the time.

Meaning: it wasn't like someone was picking and choosing. Image For reference, the research + dataset I'm referencing here is:

milksad.info/posts/research…

git.distrust.co/milksad/data/s…

I'll break down the different activity for these addresses.
Jul 18 • 25 tweets • 12 min read
This first witness in Roman's trial immediately caught my attention bc the victim was a classic Pig Butchering case.

The only issue is....uh.....those scammers don't use Tornado Cash? And they never have?

So, like, wtf? I'm not talking out of my ass here.

My team and I have talked to thousands of these victims. We've tracked nearly a billion dollars stolen on Ethereum.

We have a dashboard for all known victims of the "Approval" variant of this scam btwn 2021-2023.

dune.com/tayvano/sha-zh…
Feb 22 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
People keep calling this is the "largest crypto hack ever" but I think it might be the largest hack ever....period? Bangladesh Bank Heist (also DPRK 🫠) was *almost* $1 billy ($951m) But....

1. There was a lil glitchy so they only got $100m out initially and then $20m was quickly recovered. Total loss ended up being ~$81m.

2. Bybit Hack is bigger than that either way

bbc.com/news/stories-5…
Jan 8 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
That's a lot of Single Points of Failure. 😳 Single Point of Failure: The API Image
Dec 28, 2024 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
🚨 Heads up all—some dudes have a slick, new way of dropping some nasty malware.

Feels infostealer-y on the surface but...its not.🫠

It'll really, deeply rekt you.

Pls share this w/ your friends, devs, and multisig signers. Everyone needs to be careful + stay skeptical. 🙏Image If you get hit with this, you need to wipe your computer. Esp. if your wallets haven't been drained.

Shoot SEAL-911 a message @ and we will help you assess -> next steps.

p.s. mention 'Willo' so we can help you faster (holidays, ppl are afk, etc.)t.me/seal_911_bot
Dec 22, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
DPRK's trading career is...uh....going.....🙈

tbh if i was the dude managing Hyperliquid's 4 validators (or those fucking ghetto ass binaries on gh) I would be shitting my pants right now.

Hyperliquid dudes dont seem worried at all though so im sure its fine. 🫠 Image lol @ all you retards who think the risk is USG forcing Hyperliquid to freeze AAAAAAAAAAHHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

Yall, DPRK doesn't trade. DPRK tests.🤦‍♀️
Nov 16, 2024 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
Gotta correct the record on a headline that's been running wild lately re: the WazirX hack.

Bc it is NOT significant. Or a "breakthrough."

Dude they arrested wasnt involved in the hack. He doesnt know the hackers.

Plz stop regurgitating self-aggrandizing press releases. Image Here's the actual situation:

At some point prior to July 2024 the actual hackers landed a backdoor onto something that gave them some access to the WazirX multisig signers and/or their signatures.

We don't know what or who was compromised and it doesn't really matter.
Oct 20, 2024 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
With the recent sophisticated hacks fresh on everyone's mind, there's been a lot of talk about ✨fancy stacks and setups.✨

Yes, you should evaluate how—and with what—you sign txns.

But building a custom UI for your LAN Qubes OS AWS KMS everyday is not really the answer 😅 Background on the referenced hacks (feel free to skip):

1. Funds were stolen from each org's multisig.

2. Keys themselves were not compromised.

3. In Radiant and WazirX and maybe DMM, the keys backing the multisig were actually only on hardware wallets + actually controlled by distinct parties.

Radiant - $50m, like 2 days ago
medium.com/@RadiantCapita…

WazirX - $230m in July
x.com/WazirXIndia/st…
liminalcustody.com/blog/update-on…

DMM Bitcoin - $305m in May
The least amt is known about DMM, including whether keys were cold vs hot. Early theories said address poisoning. It def wasn't that. Attached is rampant speculation (likely all wrong)
See also: x.com/mononautical/s…Image
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Sep 5, 2024 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
Alright so comments here are a bit looney and I don’t particularly like them bc it distracts and undermines the actual risk.

Spoiler: @coinbase getting hacked is not the risk.

But there is still risk. Even when using Coinbase. This gunna be long. Sorry. But it needs to be said. Clearly.

First: the reason I say Coinbase is not the risk is because they take INSANE measures to mitigate the risk of being hacked.

They always have.

They are really fucking serious abt security across the board.
Jul 8, 2024 • 14 tweets • 8 min read
Crypto folks (hopefully) already know that Lazarus is one of the most prevalent threat actors targeting this industry.

They rekt more people, companies, protocols than anyone else.

But it's good to know exactly how they get in. Bc another smart contract audit won't save you. For example, one long-time fave method:
- Contact employee via social/messaging app
- Direct them to a Github for a job offer, "skills test," or to help with a bug
- Rekt individual's device
- Gain entry to company's AWS
- Rekt company (and their users)

cloud.google.com/blog/topics/th…
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Jun 19, 2024 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
this wild af episode 2 even wilder

Apr 10, 2024 • 25 tweets • 14 min read
🧵Highlights from the UN Security Council's 2023 report on DPRK

This one was a whopping 615 pages 😳

These reports are always like a birds eye view of random, raw, deep intel. They're amazing and shed light on attribution, irl banking networks, etc.

un.org/securitycounci… re: MaybachsImage
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Jan 1, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Orbit Bridge Hack looking v methodical 👀

Looks like 2024 is going to be another year of handing DPRK billions of dollars on a silver platter. 🙄

embarrassing af. Image Attacker
0x9263e7873613ddc598a701709875634819176aff

Funds Holders
0x009b60aab8e64c8f5fe449bd96fa78b1a7fffcc5
0x3a886a63c768665a9830886e608d6f9dc6b4f730
0x817bb1761b715a08a9142f99fa7d0ccf73f4c0ef
0x157a409c2bfff38209a32e55d3eac1bfc93dd664
0x5e22cb028865d6a93080d7ab42d2fe9a0e8dc085
0xd283fa3bd85887725c8982f539cc404a450f7fd9
0xf49de491e1c0d84a0e0bd2d57a841825fcf179fd
0x589257e07e11e761f31956d54b2323f63ee36b7d

Receivers
0x009b60aab8e64c8f5fe449bd96fa78b1a7fffcc5
0x3a886a63c768665a9830886e608d6f9dc6b4f730
0xa70f8917a957757f5505a5535df1591c54f65b9d
0x9ca536d01b9e78dd30de9d7457867f8898634049
0xdadfa3ccd40fc3d5a0164c6f9444f60163ccbf3b

Intermediaries
0x0c43edeb2ee69c27d689e912ab5b8e8eef128d4c
0x42839f4423985b5ef989498b0605b1dcca8f0df1
0xe03d37392255fd1dae5476b04388315cc70b78c2

Attacker Funder (from TC)
0x70462bfb204bf3ccb0560f259072f8e3a85b3512

Instaswapper Depo from Attacker
0xbad82ca05bd3d40b783d39e52abc1446f33aae12

Instaswapper Receiver on XRP
rN7EFW25YcGG6nzRY4W7TbX5tRyngW1Dj1
Jul 10, 2023 • 30 tweets • 6 min read
When it comes to financial crime, money laundering, etc. everyone goes thru a phase of thinking that the solution is knowing the identity of the account holder.

"if only we knew who moved these assets! then we would be able to catch them and stop crime!"

N O . Literally NO.

It doesn't work at any scale. It's never worked at any scale. It never will work at any scale.

AML laws and all the related shit don't stop crime or money laundering. And it never has.

And it's really important to note that the implementation is NOT the issue.
Jun 14, 2023 • 23 tweets • 11 min read
A thread of misc. interesting things related to the Atomic Wallet hack, Lazarus, and especially what sprawling hacks look like on-chain.

(this thread is gunna get into the weeds. i suggest the other thread if you want something shallow and easy-to-digest 😉) On Fri June 2nd, thousands of Atomic Wallet users had their wallets drained across basically every chain.

Each theft involved 1-3 new addies. Initially we were only able to link thefts on-chain if they sent gas to multiple addresses.

(green guys are what we put alerts on first) Image
May 24, 2023 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
⚠️ Heads up y'all—we're seen a huge increase in the # of ultra-targeted spearphishes lately.

The most deadly one? A Google Doc share that appears to come from *someone you know* about *something you're interested in*

It won’t be flagged and looks super legit.

DO NOT CLICK! 🙏 Image This campaign is the work of #Lazarus / #APT38 / #DangerousPassword / #T444

aka the same crew that compromised Ronin, Harmony, bZx, Bondly, EasyFi, mngr, Arthur0x, Hugh Karp, etc. etc. etc.

Their spear-phishing methods are diverse, targetted, and hard-to-detect. Image
Apr 18, 2023 • 23 tweets • 6 min read
For the past 48hrs I've been unwinding a massive wallet draining operation 😳😭

I don't know how big it is but since Dec 2022 it's drained 5000+ ETH and ??? in tokens / NFTs / coins across 11+ chains.

Its rekt my friends & OGs who are reasonably secure.

No one knows how. Image Specifically we are in contact with a handful of victims from July and August who each individually lost between $400k and $4m.

In fact, the amount stolen per victim seem to be increasing over time.

Where the average amt stolen per victim was ~$50k in April, it's now $300k+
Apr 14, 2023 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
hey anyone know whos onboarding the most people to web3 right now?

like taking people who have never done crypto stuff before and getting them to set up an account on a CEX, buy some crypto w/ their fiat, send the coins to their own wallet, and then interact with a dapp?

🤔 "bear market" Image
Apr 5, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
👀 @sentimentxyz

arbiscan.io/tx/0xb91e4cd53… Image gm sentiment exploiter Image
Apr 4, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Before I forget, I want to share some things I observed here w/ the hopes it helps other teams facing an exploit in the future.

IMHO, the single most valuable thing the Euler team did was fully *own* the responsibility of getting the funds returned. And they never gave up. They talked to—and *listened* to—people who had done it before. They got help. They worked with the FBI and their legal counsel. They leaned on everyone for *support.*

But their attitude was that no one else was going to get the funds returned so they better get them returned.