Posted an overview about all of the recent account restrictions for Coinbase users and how it relates to $300M+ stolen via social engineering scams.

A Coinbase user was likely social engineered and scammed for 110 cbBTC ($11.5M) on Base last month by a threat actor. The stolen funds were immediately swapped, bridged, and laundered through multiple instant exchanges and funds consolidated with other Coinbase victims on Ethereum. Theft transaction hash 0x8639f4b44... Show more

Someone was likely hacked for $29M (6.27M SUI) on Sui last month on December 12th, 2024. The stolen funds were bridged from Sui to Ethereum via Bridgers and then deposited to Tornado Cash in batches. Primary theft address 81f07a69ce3d0a258f3e589a Theft transaction hash 4xo... Show more

The P2P marketplace Noones was likely exploited for ~$7.9M on Ethereum, Tron, Solana, & BSC on January 1-2, 2025 as its hot wallets saw hundreds of suspicous outflows for <$7K per txn. Shortly after the platform made an announcement about maintenance although no official statement was made about any security incident... Show more

Here’s a 31 minute video of the phishing scammer ‘Vkevin’ secretly being recorded draining victims while running a fake Safeguard verification bot scam on Telegram.

The Blockchain Bandit attacker woke up after being dormant for multiple years and consolidated 51,000 ETH ($172.2M) to a single multisig. Multisig address

A few hours ago a victim was drained on Solana for $2.2M+ worth of meme coins ($1.43M PNUT, $400K ZEREBRO, $130K ALCH, etc) Theft address

A few hours ago wallets tied to crypto influencer JRNY saw ~$4M worth of crypto assets suspiciously transferred out and sold indicating a potential private key compromise. Theft address

Multisig exploiter just transferred 9980 ETH ($31.4M) to the crypto exchange exchange eXch, swapping from Ethereum to Bitcoin in 7 orders. Source address Destination address bc1qffvx38hplm6ym5el5yakxmntezv7tg6yurghnq bc1qut035lpe0k6yklcrkaquhvg4x65lkg5n3uvnel bc1qe6yk9rnae0l... Show more

Looks like the crypto casino Metawin was exploited for $4M+ on Ethereum and Solana earlier today. See 115+ theft addresses tied to the exploiter below. So far stolen funds have been transferred to Kucoin and a HitBTC nested service.

The crypto exchange M2 was hacked for ~$13M from hot wallets on multiple chains yesterday. Theft addresses ETH: BTC: bc1qu4kh7wa38xpkrp8frgxl4sak88wx0jug8n3vfj SOL:

Looks like $20M of seized funds tied to the US Government was likely stolen in the past hour. Theft address

I recently spoke with Andy Greenberg from WIRED, who did a profile that dives into my journey over the past few years. It was a great experience to reflect on the evolution of my investigations.