The attacker had to capture five out of nine validators to infiltrate the company’s networks. “The attacker managed to leverage that access to penetrate Sky Mavis IT infrastructure and gain access to the validator nodes,” Sky Mavis stated. It is worth noting that the play-to-earn game Axie Infinity is a Pokemon-inspired game developed by Sky Mavis and rakes in approximately $15 million in revenue daily.Īccording to The Block, when the hacking took place, Axie Infinity had nine validators from its proof-of-authority, an Ethereum-based sidechain Ronin. Sky Mavis explained that its employees are constantly threatened by “advanced spear-phishing attacks on various social channels.” In this instance, one employee was fooled, who doesn’t even work at Sky Mavis anymore. ![]() During the recruiting process, the ex-employee gave away critical personal information, which attackers used to steal from the company. However, in reality, this company didn’t exist. The employee, an ex-senior engineer at the company, took the bait and thought that it was a high-paying job offer from another company and opened the PDF. In January 2022, researchers from different crypto security firms concluded that North Korean hackers have so far stolen $1.3 billion from cryptocurrency exchanges across the globe, while their prime suspect in these hacks was the infamous Lazarus gang. Lazarus’ involvement in such a high-profile hack should not come as a surprise. Now, it has been revealed that Axie Infinity hacking was socially engineered in which North Korean government-backed hacker group Lazarus used a fake job offer to infiltrate Sky Mavis’ network by sending one of the company’s employees a PDF file containing spyware. In May 2022, the United States issued an advisory according to which highly skilled hackers from North Korea were trying to get employed by posing as IT freelancers. Lopez Ashwin Srinivas Dexter Sean Charles Jonas Ullberg Curt Hansen Nicolette McFadden Christopher Bienko Deepak C Shetty Gina King Ann M.Earlier in March this year, Ronin Network (RON), a blockchain network underpinning the famous crypto game Axie Infinity and Axie DAO suffered the largest crypto hack against a decentralized finance network reported to date. Sylvia Scheerova Peter Dussmann Simon Porstendorfer Andrea Corbelli Shannon Elwell David Spurway Lisa Vogelman Tonny Bastiaans Chuck Bryan Joe Cropper Jessica Eidem Joseph J. ![]() The plan is to recruit teachers from participants completed Tech Academies earlier, following Benjamin Franklin’s motto listed on the picture below. With the core team of experts from all geos, I started to structure ideas for 2023. Two more classes are scheduled for November (APAC and JAPAN). This was already the 10th Tech Academy class organized in 2022 with a goal is develop global technical talent pool around Application Modernization or Hybrid Cloud offerings on IBM Power. Thanks to Jay Diamond for hosting and kicking off the event, Andreas Hermelink and Sinead Hersey for coordinating activities with selected Business Partners. Kudos to distinguished speakers Paul Chapman and Daniel de Souza Casali Casali plus EMEA Red Hat on IBM Power advocates Agnès de Gimel Egor Golubkov Diego Riesco Garcia Saurabh Sharma and Marvin Gießing Giessing, who delivered the agenda and facilitated lab exercises during the class. This was reflected in the feedback from the attendees. I believe that difficult preparation helped the team to comfortably and easily complete hands-on lab exercises focused on deploying, connecting, exposing and porting applications to #RedHat #OpenShift clusters running on IBM Power. ![]() ![]() In this context I want to acknowledge all participants of EMEA Application Modernization on #IBMPower Technical Academy for their hard prework. I like the most this one (courtesy of Luis Gius from Argentina): ‘Los partidos del fin de semana se ganan en el entrenamiento de la semana’ which says ‘Weekend matches are won on weekday training’! Recently, I asked colleagues from several countries what metaphor or proverb would they use. When asking people to take some prelearning, what always come to my mind is particular Czech saying ‘Těžko na cvičišti, lehko na bojišti’ which could be loosely translated as ‘A hard drill makes an easy battle’.
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