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Nearly 1.6K Crypto Wallets Compromised in CoinStats Breach
Cryptocurrency portfolio management platform CoinStats had 1,590 cryptocurrency wallets, or 1.3% of all its hosted wallets, affected by a widespread security breach that the company says was conducted by a collective of North Korean hackers Lazarus Groupsecond Sleeping computer.
A similar incident, which resulted in the temporary removal of the CoinStats app, did not affect linked wallets and centralized exchanges, said the firm, which recommended immediate fund transfers to external wallets for people whose wallets were compromised during ongoing investigations and attack mitigation efforts. . Meanwhile, threat actors have already started launching fraudulent CoinStat refund programs using accounts containing typos on X, formerly Twitter. People who may have been affected by the CoinStats breach are tricked into clicking on a link in the post, which redirects to a cloned site that requires a connection to their wallets which would ultimately result in the exfiltration of all of its assets.