SlowMist: Venus Whale Incident Recovers Almost All Assets, Hacker Loses About $3 Million in Attack Cost
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BlockBeats News, September 3rd, SlowMist Cosmos posted that "The phishing incident involving Venus whale @KuanSun1990 has reached a 'satisfactory conclusion,' with the user recovering almost all losses. As a result, the related hacking group has incurred an attack cost of nearly $3 million."
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