{"id":13926,"date":"2026-04-19T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=13926"},"modified":"2026-04-19T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:20:00","slug":"us-sanctioned-foreign-money-trade-says-15-million-heist-completed-by-unfriendly-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=13926","title":{"rendered":"US-sanctioned foreign money trade says $15 million heist completed by &quot;unfriendly states&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cryptocurrency-1152x648.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grinex, a US-sanctioned cryptocurrency trade registered in Kyrgyzstan, stated it\u2019s halting operations after experiencing a $13 million heist carried out by \u201cwestern particular companies\u201d hackers.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from TRM, which has confirmed the theft, put the worth of stolen belongings at $15 million after discovering roughly 70 drained addresses, about 16 greater than Grinex reported. Neither TRM nor fellow blockchain analysis agency Elliptic has stated how the attackers slipped previous Grinex\u2019s defenses. Grinex stated it has been underneath virtually fixed assault makes an attempt since incorporating 16 months in the past. The newest assaults, it stated, focused Russian customers of the trade.<\/p>\n<h2>Damaging &#8220;Russia&#8217;s monetary sovereignty&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe digital footprints and nature of the assault point out an unprecedented stage of assets and know-how obtainable solely to the buildings of unfriendly states,\u201d Grinex <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/grinex.io\">stated<\/a>. \u201cIn accordance with preliminary knowledge, the assault was coordinated with the intention of inflicting direct injury to Russia&#8217;s monetary sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2026\/04\/russia-friendly-exchange-says-western-special-service-behind-15-million-cyberattack\/\">Learn full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2026\/04\/russia-friendly-exchange-says-western-special-service-behind-15-million-cyberattack\/#comments\">Feedback<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grinex, a US-sanctioned cryptocurrency trade registered in Kyrgyzstan, stated it\u2019s halting operations after experiencing a $13 million heist carried out by \u201cwestern particular companies\u201d hackers. Researchers from TRM, which has confirmed the theft, put the worth of stolen belongings at $15 million after discovering roughly 70 drained addresses, about 16 greater than Grinex reported. Neither [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[4301,2142,7203,1636,8721,8722,8720],"class_list":["post-13926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news","tag-currency","tag-exchange","tag-heist","tag-million","tag-quotunfriendly","tag-statesquot","tag-ussanctioned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13927,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13926\/revisions\/13927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template:. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template: 69d9690a190636c2e0989534. Config Timestamp: 2026-04-10 21:18:02 UTC, Cached Timestamp: 2026-04-19 15:58:36 UTC -->