Hackers get to get more than 1.5 billion dollars in Ethereum of the company bybit

Hackers are not only dedicated to Information theft for later ask for bailouts Millionaires, too They attack to companies that have cryptocurrencies. Like him greater theft in the history of cryptocurrencies The BBC has cataloged this operation carried out by hackers, which They have managed to get 401,347 Ethereum that have a value of 1.5 billion dollars to change. Theft has been made to the company Bybit.

The company He has asked his customers calm And he has assured that the other wallets are safe. He also added that guarantees assets to its clients, for this it will resort to own funds of the company or It does not even rule out a loan to its partners. The operation carried out by hackers has achieved compromise security of One of Ethereum’s walletsand what a then They transferred the more than 400,000 Ethereum to unidentified addresses.

This robbery took place on February 21 in what It seemed a routine transfer For bybit. An operation they achieved went unnoticed thanks to a SOFISTICED METHOD TO MASK THE SIGNATUREwhich managed to deceive security systems. To this would have joined such usual techniques and little sophisticated (at least digitally) such as PESHING OR SOCIAL ENGINEERINGwhich allowed Initial access To avoid some security protocols. Once inside they already used this more sophisticated technique to carry out the transfer.

This robbery has also caused A 4% Ethereum currency dropthat has lowered its value after the news is known.