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Daily Cyber News: Bitget loses $387.5 million after third-party security breach

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget lost three hundred eighty seven point five dollars million after attackers reached its wallet environment through third-party security products. Two separate investigations concluded that zero-day weaknesses in two security appliances were used to gain privileged access. The attackers placed a web shell on one appliance, moved laterally into a production wallet job server, and deployed malware along with a custom withdrawal tool.

Key context: The case shows how a security product can become a route into the systems it’s supposed to protect.

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