In this episode we discussed how Coinbase was issued a Wells notice from the SEC. Do Kwon was arrested with fraud charges. Euler Finance, a permissionless borrowing and lending protocol on Ethereum, was the victim of a flash loan attack. Cross-chain Web3 platform Poolz Finance lost $390,000 to a hacking incident on Mar. 16. General Bytes experienced a security incident on March 17 and 18 that enabled a hacker to remotely access the master service interface and send funds from hot wallets. We also discussed a few different crypto wallet vendor vulnerabilities.

In this episode we discussed how North Korea-linked cybercrime syndicate Lazarus Group has reportedly transferred $63.4 million in Ethereum from 2022’s mammoth Harmony bridge hack. Advertisements on popular search engines like Google have been used to serve malware to unsuspecting users. The founder of cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato was arrested and charged with processing $700 million in illicit funds. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has concluded a months-long disruption campaign, in cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), against crypto ransomware group Hive Network, preventing victims from losing $130 million in ransoms.

In the episode we discussed a report that Immunefi put out regarding crypto losses in 2022. One of the original core developers of Bitcoin, Luke Dashjr, claimed that someone stole 216 BTC from them. A class action lawsuit has been filed against Last Pass that alleges that the data breach against Last Pass resulted in loss of crypto. The CFTC filed charges against the Mango Markets hacker. Crypto and banking apps are being targeted by the "GodFather" malware. Multiple major hacks against individuals occurred over the past month.