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Bitget CEO: $350M Hack Very Likely Linked to North Korea On September 24, Bitget detected unauthorized transfers from several hot wallets. Bitget CEO Gracie Chen Gracy Chen @Bitget said the team identified IP addresses whose VPN usage patterns matched those associated with a specific DPRK-linked group, making a North...

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Spiffy Lad🤡3 days ago

@GracyBitget She thinks she is him, who's gonna tell her? 💀

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ChainReaper3 days ago

@GracyBitget Not very likely, it is such.

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GinX Vietnam3 days ago

@GracyBitget all leads to North Korea

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Treanor Devlin Brown PLLC3 days ago

@GracyBitget Any word on whether this involved the kind of AI-assisted social engineering we’ve seen targeting other firms? The human element will always be the hardest vulnerability to eliminate.

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vøv △3 days ago

@GracyBitget $350m internal breach is a massive red flag for security protocols

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Fichajes Brasil2 days ago

@GracyBitget já vi exchange segurar investigação interna por 3 dias antes de admitir que foi invasão de sistema, não chave

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Mr Eight2 days ago

@GracyBitget That's my girl

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Dan Krupka3 days ago

@GracyBitget This probably wasn't North Korea btw. Think about it logically. BitGet is a Chinese exchange. North Korea has close to ties to China. North Korea would not bite the hand that feeds them.

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Sync Protocol3 days ago

@GracyBitget 3.5亿美元黑客案还指向朝鲜,热钱包安全太吓人了😥 但落到代币交易还是得看流动性,Sync支持自由交易,卖出触发AMM sync+销毁,把卖压转成通缩,不做貔貅。

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xukong653 days ago

@GracyBitget 金将军今晚开香槟

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ibanami3 days ago

@GracyBitget lazarus treating exchange hot wallets like their personal direct deposit again

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Tim哥2 days ago

@GracyBitget If DPRK is confirmed, expect a long laundering tail. The ~68k ETH will get chopped through bridges for weeks.

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Wagner Realiza3 days ago

@GracyBitget That’s not good at all 😢

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Qamar Rizwani3 days ago

@GracyBitget Thanks, Stay vigilant

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Minh Crypto3 days ago

@GracyBitget Very likely" là cách nói mơ hợp để tạo sự chú ý. Nếu bằng chứng thực sự rõ ràng thì đã dùng từ mạnh hơn. 🤔

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ANDRE CRONJE SCAMMER3 days ago

@GracyBitget 臭婊子

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John F Kennedy2 days ago

@GracyBitget Polygraph yourself and prove it.

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banhchung3 days ago

@GracyBitget Ví nào cũng không thoát được nhóm này.

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Whale0x69🐳3 days ago

@GracyBitget This is not new, why always got hacked are we not learned from the fast mistake by other exchanger like @Bybit_Official crypto security is concerning tbh if it's easy to get hack, or this is just a 🍿🎥 😆

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Muller3 days ago

@GracyBitget

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Naman2 days ago

@GracyBitget If it is Lazarus again, that's Bybit and now Bitget in under two years. They've clearly figured out the signing pipeline is softer than the keys.

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BTC_king3 days ago

@GracyBitget 监守自盗监守自盗

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小溪繁85 Gate3 days ago

@GracyBitget 北边黑客手法越来越离谱了这谁敢存钱啊

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Md Fahim3 days ago

@GracyBitget A $350M breach is a serious reminder that exchange security goes beyond protecting private keys. The internal-system compromise makes strong access controls and monitoring critical. 🔐⚠️

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Macro Bombastic3 days ago

@GracyBitget yeah that ip pattern is pretty damning tbh

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WAGMI | Finance. For All. On Autopilot3 days ago

@GracyBitget A useful lead, but I’d keep the attribution provisional until the investigation is complete. Bitget’s public wording still centers on unauthorized transfers and an ongoing review, so the report should distinguish evidence from conclusion.

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THE GROWmuniTREE.tgn3 days ago

@GracyBitget The $464M+ protection fund matters, but the bigger lesson is operational security. You can have secure cold storage and still have a massive incident if the systems controlling hot wallet transfers are compromised.

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DuongKienTri3 days ago

@GracyBitget vụ hack thật đáng lo ngại đấy

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Afshin Rattansi

80,346 views • 8 months ago

“Russia has lost everything. Everything. The war is lost." - *Andrey Zubov. "The war is lost. You can say that to your opponent. The war is already lost in all directions. It's lost on the battlefield. They didn't go anywhere, not to Kharkiv, not to Kyiv, especially not to Lviv. They didn't go anywhere. It's lost on the diplomatic level. All civilised countries have turned away from Russia. Just recently, Japan sent a large tranche to help Ukraine. And as for Europe, I'm not even talking. As for Trump, well, it's a strange phenomenon that the Americans themselves will probably be ashamed of later. But nevertheless, there's a very powerful movement in America in support of Ukraine, both in the Republican and Democratic parties, just in society. Russia, once a truly great power, a member of the G8, became a satellite of China, which is now a raw materials appendage of China. Its allies, it was on the threshold of NATO. In 2002, the issue of joining NATO was already being discussed very seriously, and the same Prime Minister Kasyanov was for joining NATO, and putin said that it was possible, we should think about it. Well, now what NATO? Now the allies are North Korea, which journalists in Russia have also been poking fun at for so many years, about Kim Jong-un and so on. But it turned out that it wasn't worth poking fun at, that North Korean troops are fighting side-by-side with the Russians on the Ukrainian front. This is Iran with these crazy ayatollahs, it turned out that these crazy ayatollahs there provide weapons and they're being used actively. And finally, China itself, which also, if we were delighted, then for its economic successes, but certainly not for its totalitarian system. And now China is the main pillar of the putin regime and putin’s totalitarian system. So, naturally, Russia has suffered a humanitarian defeat, a mass of cultural people have left, I would say, the cultural elite of Russia, the Russian youth. Well, and old people like me, we left, we don't want anything to do with this regime. Russia has lost hundreds of thousands of its people, and with a low birth rate and a poor level of education, it's very sensitive. Russia has lost its culture, because the level of education has dropped sharply and, as a matter of fact, Russia has lost everything. Everything. The war is lost." *Andrey Zubov: A prominent Russian historian and political scientist who was famously dismissed from MGIMO (Moscow State Institute of International Relations) in 2014 after criticising the annexation of Crimea.

Yasmina

513,323 views • 8 months ago

🇾🇪 The Houthis may have been using an AI coding assistant as part of their missile development work. Anthropic’s September threat report describes a group in northern Yemen working on several weapons projects at the same time, including a guided rocket, a long-range ballistic missile and a family of systems known as R2000. Anthropic says the group was very likely linked to the Houthis. What stands out is how they used Claude Code. According to the report, the model was helping with guidance and control software, builds, simulations and troubleshooting. In practice, it was filling some of the role normally handled by software engineers. They were even running several sessions at once and dividing the work between them. At one point, the group test-fired the guided rocket and it failed. Within hours, they were back using the model to work through what had gone wrong. The more worrying part is how little sophistication was apparently needed to get around the safeguards. Anthropic says they did not use some elaborate jailbreak. Instead, they broke the work into smaller pieces that looked harmless when viewed separately. And by the time Anthropic shut the accounts down, the group had already built an offline toolkit that no longer depended on Claude. That is probably the bigger issue here. The AI does not have to become part of the weapon itself. It can simply help someone learn faster, write code faster and solve problems they previously needed a larger technical team to handle. Once that knowledge has been transferred, removing access to the model comes rather late. The timing is hard to ignore too. This comes as the Houthis have expanded their position around the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb. Source: Anthropic, Reuters, Bloomberg, The New Media / Writer: Oliver

Mario Nawfal

34,641 views • 14 days ago

.The Hill’s Julia Manchester: “You voiced your displeasure with NATO in the past. Is there a danger to the U.S. not being the de facto of the leader of the alliance and then other powers within the alliance then getting the decision making when it comes to wars and nuclear weapons?” Trump: “No, it’s not a danger. NATO’s — look, we went to NATO. I didn’t ask very strongly. I just said, ‘hey, if you want to help, great.’ ‘No, no, no, we will not help.’ I said, ‘that’s all right. You don’t want to help.’ Because I’ve always said NATO is a paper tiger. See, NATO’s a paper tiger. Putin’s not afraid of NATO. Putin’s afraid of us, very afraid of us. And he’s explained it to me a lot of times. I got to know him very well. I know him very well. NATO is a paper tiger. NATO is us. And when we needed them — we didn’t need them, by the way. We didn’t need them, obviously, because they haven’t helped at all. Just the opposite. They’ve actually gone out of their way not to help. They didn’t even want to give us landing strips. Think of it. And it’s not just NATO. You know who else didn’t help us? South Korea didn’t help us. You know who else didn’t help us? Australia didn’t help us. You know who else didn’t help us? Japan. We’ve got 50,000 soldiers in Japan to protect them from North Korea. We have 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect us from Kim Jong-un, who I get along with very well, as you know. Do you notice he said very nice things about me. He used to call Joe Biden a mentally retarded person, okay? So, don’t tell me about your stuff. Joe Biden — he said he’s a mentally retarded person. He was so nasty to Joe Biden. It was terrible. But to me, he likes Trump. And you notice how nice things are with North Korea. It’s very nice. But we have 45,000 people, soldiers in harm’s way and right next to Kim Jong-un with a lot of nuclear weapons, 45 — which should have never happened if a certain president — I’m not going to mention this President because I happen to like him, believe it or not — but if a certain President did his job, Kim Jong-un would not have nuclear weapons right now. But they’re all afraid to do their job properly. But just to conclude and just to finish, Japan didn’t help us, Australia didn’t help us, South Korea didn’t help us. And then you get to NATO, and NATO didn’t help us. There were some countries that did. Now countries that have been good. Now, you could also say there got to be a little bit more involved because they’re in the territory. But Saudi Arabia has been excellent. Qatar has been excellent. UAE has been excellent. Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman. I mean, Kuwait did shoot down three of our planes. The only planes really that we lost with friendly fire, they call it. I call it unfriendly fire. They, unfortunately, didn’t know how to use our — our great patriots. The pilot said, what kind of missiles coming at us? Patriot. Boom. They got out because they know a Patriot never misses. So, they had beautiful Patriots. There were planes heading in their direction. Unfortunately, they decided to shoot those planes. They were our planes. So, no, NATO is a paper tiger now. He’s coming to see me on Wednesday. As you know, he’s a wonderful guy. Secretary General is great. And Mark Rutte — he’s a great person. But he’s got — and you know, it all began with if you want to know the truth? Greenland. We want Greenland. They don’t want to give it to us. And I said, ‘bye bye.’”

Curtis Houck

151,552 views • 5 months ago

BREAKING NEWS: U.S. PRESIDENT Donald Trump is furious with NATO—as the Straits of Hormuz re-open, but only for Chinese, Indian and Pakistani ships. “I have never heard him so angry in my life,” Senator Lindsay Graham posted on X a few hours ago. Also a few hours ago, Trump ordered US armed forces to drop heavy bombs on the coast of Iran to destroy reinforced missile launchpads—but the Iranians have been using mobile launchpads to avoid this specific action. . HORMUZ IS OPEN The Strait of Hormuz is open for the world’s ships to pass through, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, told reporters last night at a press conference in Tehran. “It is only closed to our enemies, to those who carried out unjust aggression against our country and to their allies,” he said. Analysts around the world, including in the west, agree that the US-Israel attack was illegal. “From March 1 to March 15, a total of 11 China-linked vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz,” reported Lloyds List, a shipping data center. But then traffic dropped to zero and is now very gradually rising again. Turkey is also in talks with Iranian authorities to ensure that they are on the safe list. Iran has also said it will favor ships doing business in yuan instead of the US dollar. . TRUMP VOWS VENGEANCE Trump, meanwhile is planning vengeance on the Europeans, Graham said. “The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America,” he said, reporting Trump’s threats. US allies are stuck. Japan, South Korea, the U.K., France and Italy are still hoping the US Navy can strong-arm access for them. They "are largely coordinating with the U.S. and exploring naval escort options rather than negotiating directly with Tehran," says a note to investors by JP Morgan analysts. . 'AFFILIATION CHECKPOINT' Vessel trackers note that some vessels can be seen moving between Larak and Qeshm, two Iranian islands. "This is not a standard route for vessels and could reflect a process designed to confirm vessel ownership and cargo, enabling passage for ships that are not affiliated to the U.S. or its allies," the JP Morgan analysts said. . REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT With their brutal and sustained bombing attacks on Iran, Trump and Netanyahu have achieved something remarkable: they have turned the Iranians into heroes, undoing years of demonization.

Nury Vittachi

16,096 views • 6 months ago

This is related… Listen to what he says about Elon Musk, and very specifically, about how Elon Musk is the most SUBSIDIZED human in history. Q once asked why is EM (Elon Musk) provided big worldwide SUBSIDIES? That question, when researching, leads to extraordinary answers.. Elite globalist families sought to control the world by militarizing space and holding nations hostage with nuclear weapons. Their plan involved enabling North Korea (NK) and Iran to develop nuclear capabilities to trigger a global conflict, potentially World War III, to destroy the United States. Hillary Clinton, (they never thought she would lose) was expected to win in 2016, was tasked with escalating tensions with Russia to spark this war, while a CIA-controlled NK served as a backup plan. The 2010 Uranium One deal, approved by Obama, and the U.S. government under Clinton’s State Department, allowed Russia’s Rosatom to acquire U.S. uranium assets, allegedly supplying uranium to NK and Iran. Operation Merlin covertly provided nuclear technology to these nations, and Obama’s BILLION’S IN CASH was KEY, likely funded further development, with funds possibly reaching black site projects to Iran/NK, ISIS, likely orchestrated by no name McCain. SpaceX, Elon Musk, was heavily subsidized by the U.S. government through CIA arrangements via Rizvi Traverse Management, ensuring its survival. Obama scaled back NASA to funnel funds to SpaceX, providing advanced rocket technology to NK. In return, the CIA gained access to SpaceX’s IRIDIUM satellites, which likely provided guidance systems for NK’s ICBMs, allowing the CIA to redirect potential nukes to any target. Like Erik Prince’s Blackwater, SpaceX is a private company effectively controlled by government funding, serving globalist goals. Obama was installed to facilitate Uranium One and SpaceX subsidies. Suhail Rizvi, tied to SpaceX funding, was linked to Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, a Twitter shareholder who backed Obama’s rise, paid for Harvard. President Trump disrupted this plan upon taking office. Despite MSM claims he’d start WW3, it is highly likely a covert military operation demolished NK’s nuclear program in a mountain collapse (cover “earthquake”), neutralizing the threat in clandestine white hat operation to remove North Korea from the globalist cabal’s chess board. “On 20 April 2018 the North Korean government announced that it would suspend nuclear tests and shut down the Punggye-ri nuclear test site.” Trump also exposed Musk’s massive subsidies, highlighting SpaceX’s questionable funding. SpaceX was a globalist tool to militarize space, with IRIDIUM satellites enabling North Korea’s ICBM tracking, creating a global hostage scenario, with globalist elites holding the trigger. The CIA could use these satellites, like Amazon Echo devices, to manipulate threats, potentially staging an attack to blame Russia. Q questioned Musk’s subsidies, and Trump’s remarks about Musk being “the most subsidized human in history” is a signal that he’s exposing this globalist scheme.

MJTruthUltra

158,849 views • 7 months ago

🌐🇧🇪Euroclear CEO warns against using frozen Russian assets to lend to Ukraine. Valérie Urbain, CEO of Belgian depository Euroclear, which manages around €185 billion in frozen Russian state assets, is urging the European Union not to touch them. In a recent interview, she warned that the plan to use the funds as collateral for a loan worth up to €165 billion for the reconstruction of Ukraine could be perceived by Russia as a confiscation, which would trigger legal and economic retaliation. “If Russia perceives this reconstruction loan to Ukraine as a confiscation of its assets, it will not stand idly by. That is why we expect legal action against Euroclear and the possible seizure of assets that we hold on behalf of our clients in Russia,” Urbain said. She added that Russia could seize Belgian assets in Russia in retaliation, which would threaten the stability of the European financial system. Euroclear, a key player in the European financial market, now holds most of the €200 billion in frozen Russian reserves since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The EU is already using the profits from these assets to prop up Kiev, but the assets themselves remain untouched. The European Commission is proposing to use them as collateral for a loan that Ukraine would repay from future Russian reparations. Belgium, where Euroclear is based, is the biggest opponent of the plan because of the risks to its economy. Urbain instead proposes using the assets as leverage in peace talks with Russia, and has implicitly ruled out legal action against the EU if the forced transfer were to take place. The European Council is expected to decide on the proposal at a summit on December 18-19.

🌐geopolitics in the picture

35,598 views • 9 months ago

BREAKING: DEBUNKING THE LIES IN ADL'S RESPONSE TO ELON ADL's CEO broke his silence on 𝕏 and Elon by lying and trapping the host: 1) He claimed that Elon brought and amplified anti-semitism and hate speech back to the platform. This is NOT TRUE. The 𝕏 Safety team shared that an independent assessment by Sprinklr found that hate speech impressions on 𝕏 “to be 0.003% compared to Twitter’s estimate of 0.012%.” 2) Greenblatt clarified that he has never claimed Elon or 𝕏 are anti-Semitic: “I don’t think Twitter as a platform is anti-Semitic.” 3) When Greenblatt was asked by the host (who also identified as Jewish) if he was seeking a position or donation from 𝕏 to the ADL, he took offense to this, called it an anti-semetic trope, almost as if he was trying to cancel him, leaving the host uncomfortable and defensive. 4) Greenblatt claimed ADL is NOT publicly or privately talking to advertisers, BUT shortly after, said, “It is true we did call for a pause back in November, after the acquisition and since then” and in a previous interview he stated “if it remains a hellscape the advertisers won't take part in [Twitter]” 5) Greenblatt said the ADL is a SMALL non-profit in NY. NOT TRUE. The ADL is an influential organization with over 100 years of history, and according to the ADL's 2021 tax filings, the organization's total revenue was $101 million with a balance sheet of $238 million. They ALSO received millions of dollars of indirect government funding via grants to groups in which the ADL has special interests. 6) Greenblatt says the ADL works WITH other social media platforms, including Facebook. We saw in the Politico article that Elon Musk posted that the ADL indirectly CONTROLS what can be posted on Facebook. 7) Greenblatt claimed he doesn't know what prompted Elon's tweets, but Elon was clear it was prompted by the 60% drop in advertising from the ADL’s interference, which Greenblatt admitted in the video. Doesn’t seem like the meeting with X CEO Linda Yaccarino went as well as Greenblatt is making it out to be.

Mario Nawfal

37,331,326 views • 3 years ago

Renewable energy had nothing to do with Spain’s catastrophic blackouts, its Prime Minister says, insisting instead that the real culprit was a rare technical failure unrelated to the country’s green energy transition. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez went further and reiterated his government’s opposition to nuclear energy, which he called “far from being a solution.” But, as I pointed out on Monday, the underlying cause of the blackout was the lack of “inertia,” the physical buffer provided by traditional power plants that use heavy spinning machinery to stabilize the grid during sudden fluctuations. Our electrical systems are based on power plants that rotate massive metal shafts at thousands of revolutions per minute, creating electricity while also providing momentum. That rotational mass acts like a shock absorber, automatically resisting sharp swings in supply and demand. When a fault or sudden drop hits the system, that inertia buys precious seconds for control systems to respond and for operators to isolate the problem. In contrast, solar panels and most modern wind turbines rely on inverters, which lack physical mass and can’t cushion these shocks. It’s true that the electrical grid managers have not identified a specific cause that triggered the blackout, and both Spain’s Red Eléctrica and Portugal’s REN have cautioned that a full root-cause analysis may take weeks. Preliminary reports describe a “very strong oscillation” in the network and suggest the event began with an unexpected disturbance, possibly linked to a sudden drop in generation or an equipment fault. But that doesn’t change the fact that the Spanish grid lacks inertia, and that if it had had more inertia in the system the blackout could have been avoided or at least contained. Inertia is not a theoretical nicety, it’s a physical property provided by heavy, spinning generators like those in gas, coal, and nuclear plants, which naturally resist sudden changes in frequency. On the day of the blackout, nearly 80 percent of Spain’s electricity came from inverter-based solar and wind sources, which provide no such stabilizing force. With so few conventional plants online, the grid had virtually no buffer to absorb even a minor shock. When the disturbance hit, the frequency plunged and the system unraveled within seconds. Unlike older grids built around rotating mass, Spain’s modern, ultra-light grid simply had no way to withstand the sudden imbalance. And Spain’s electrical grid operator admitted on a conference call yesterday that it was a “massive” loss of renewable energy generation that triggered the blackout and said that it was “very likely” the initial disturbance came from solar... Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning journalism, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!

Michael Shellenberger

81,437 views • 1 year ago