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Bitfinex Bitcoin Trader Elects to Spread Losses from Recent Hack Among All Users
Bitfinex, the Bitcoin trading platform based in Hong Kong, has announced that it will be spreading the losses from the recent cyber-heist among all of its users and will be applying the 119,756 Bitcoin ($67.47 million) cost to all…
The platform said that every user would lose 36.067% from their account's balance. Until the company discovers how the Bitcoin was stolen and recovers it, users will receive new tokens on the Omni protocol with the shortcode "BFX."
This token is priced at $1 and can be traded in shares of iFinex Inc, the company behind Bitfinex, or kept until Bitfinex recovers the money and later traded back for the confiscated Bitcoin.
As you'd expect, the company's announcement wasn't very popular, and users were quick to remind everyone th...
SOC Incident Playbook: Vulnerability Remediation & Verification
title: Detect Exploitation - Bitfinex Bitcoin Trader Elects to Spread Losses from Recent Hack Among All Users
id: 15afc2eb-8235-48fd-8203-fcbb0c8bdc7c
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
- https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-25
logsource:
category: network_connection
product: any
detection:
selection:
CommandLine|contains:
- 'exploit'
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
- attack.initial_accessrule CTI_Threat_Indicator {
meta:
author = "iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine"
date = "2026-09-25"
description = "YARA Signature for "
strings:
$str = "Bitfinex Bitcoin Trader Elects" ascii wide
condition:
any of them
}index=security sourcetype IN ("cisco:asa", "pan:traffic", "zeek_conn", "suricata", "WinEventLog:Security")
("Bitfinex Bitcoin Trader Elects to Spread")
| stats count earliest(_time) as first_seen latest(_time) as last_seen by src_ip, dest_ip, dest_host, signature
| eval first_seen=strftime(first_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), last_seen=strftime(last_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
| sort - countmessage: "*Bitfinex Bitcoin Trader Elects to Spread*"CommonSecurityLog
| where Message has "Bitfinex Bitcoin Trader Elects to Spread"
| summarize EventCount = count(), FirstSeen = min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen = max(TimeGenerated) by SourceIP, DestinationIP, DestinationPort, Activity
| extend DetectionRule = "iShareStuff-CTI-Compiled"
| sort by EventCount descMITRE ATT&CK Matrix Navigator 14 Taktiken
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Kognitive Analyse für identifizierte Bedrohung: Erhöhte Bedrohungslage im Bereich Bitfinex Bitcoin Trader Elects to Spread.... Basierend auf 368k Vektor-Korrelationen werden sofortige Isolationsmaßnahmen für betroffene Endpunkte empfohlen.
Netzwerk/Remote-Zugriff ohne Vorauthentifizierung möglich.
- 1. Perimeter-Inspektion: Relevante Portfreigaben und exponierte Endpunkte unverzüglich scannen.
- 2. Patch-Applikation: Hersteller-Hotfix einspielen oder betroffene Daemons in isolierte DMZ-Segmente überführen.
- 3. Telemetrie & EDR-Alerts: Prozessaufrufe und Child-Processes auf anomale Shell-Spawns überwachen.
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