According to the U.S. Department of Justice, HashFlare, which operated from 2015 to 2019, was a Ponzi scheme in which hundreds of thousands of victims paid a total of $575 million. The company claimed to lease hash power for cryptocurrency mining and also encouraged investment in a fake bank. If convicted in the United States, Ivan Turogin and Sergei Potapenko face up to 20 years in prison each.

In November 2022, Ivan Turogin and Sergei Potapenko were arrested in Estonia after a US grand jury issued an indictment. They are Estonian citizens. The Estonian government approved their extradition to the United States in September.

It is reported that Okta provides identity services such as single sign-on and multi-factor authentication to ensure customer login security for online applications and websites, including OpenAI supported by Microsoft.

According to previous news in October, SlowMist reminded that Okta suffered a customer data leakage in a security incident and that encryption companies need to be more vigilant.

It is reported that on November 15, MAS introduced five additional industry pilots to Project Guardian to test various use cases for asset tokenization, with 17 member financial institutions including JPMorgan Chase and Apollo participating. The two companies are working together to test digital assets to enable more seamless investing and management, including discretionary portfolios and alternative assets, automated portfolio rebalancing and mass customization.

The proposed total supply of Bean memecoin is 1 billion. 40% of the tokens are allocated to its vault, 50% to Azuki DAO members, and 10% to Azuki NFT creator Zagabond. Minting is only available to Azuki NFT holders, who must mint within 24 hours of token issuance or face a "token burn."

According to previous news, AzukiDAO and 20000E DAO were established by former Azuki community members and holders and are not the official Azuki team. According to earlier news, Jeremy Cahen, the founder of Not Larva Labs, said that he has evidence of Azuki co-created Zagabond fraud and is willing to testify in court.

The vulnerability involves potentially exposing root-level access to 25 authentication servers to external attackers that may not be affiliated with the Lido protocol, which may include critical material. It is unclear whether the contributors included servers and/or keys related to Lido Authenticator within the scope of the affected systems. There is no indication that any keys were compromised as a result of the vulnerability, however as a precautionary measure, InfStones voluntarily retired all validators and rotated to new keys pending a DAO vote. All ETH from exiting validators will flow back to the Lido protocol through the withdrawal process and will subsequently be re-staked into available keys in the buffer.

The U.S. Department of Justice also announced the seizure of approximately $9 million worth of Tether (USDT). The seized funds were traced to cryptocurrency addresses associated with a "killing plate" scam group that exploited more than 70 victims through romance scams and cryptocurrency confidence scams. It was reported yesterday that Tether had frozen 225 million USDT related to international criminal groups.

A Meta spokesperson said that most team members responsible for artificial intelligence will move to the field of generative artificial intelligence and continue to support Meta’s related cross-departmental work on responsible artificial intelligence development and use; some other members will move to artificial intelligence Infrastructure sector. He noted that the company intends to bring these employees closer to the development of core products and technologies. "We continue to prioritize and invest in safe and responsible AI development, and these changes will allow us to better scale to meet future demands."

Last October, Meta began rolling out generative AI tools that can create content such as image backgrounds and written text for all advertisers. Currently, Meta's artificial intelligence products include its large language model "Llama 2" and a chatbot called Meta AI, which can respond to text. and generate "photorealistic" images.