Key Takeaways Acala said today that most of its services remain paused after an attack that occurred on Sunday, August 14. Of the 22 services listed on Acala’s website, 18 services are paused wh...
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Near’s Rainbow Bridge Blocks Another Attack, Costing Hackers 5 Ethereum
Near Protocol’s Rainbow Bridge experienced another hack attempt over the weekend. Like the first attempt back in May, the project successfully blocked this attack “automatically within 31 seconds,” t...
NEAR Rainbow Bridge Turns Tables On Hacker, Foils Weekend Attack
Aurora Labs CEO Alex Shevchenko revealed on Monday that the NEAR-ETH Rainbow bridge was the target of a hacking attempt over the weekend. However, protocols put in place successfully defended the bri...
Hacker Loses 5 ETH (~$8,000) In Failed Attack on NEAR Rainbow Bridge
Aurora Labs CEO Alex Shevchenko said that on Aug. 22 a hacker lost 5 Ethereum (ETH) in a failed attack on the NEAR/ETH Rainbow Bridge over the weekend. No user funds were lost. Shevchenko said the att...
NEAR Rainbow Bridge defends weekend attack costing hacker 5 ETH
CEO of Aurora Labs, Alex Shevchenko, announced Monday that the NEAR-ETH Rainbow Bridge defended an attack over the weekend resulting in the hacker losing 5ETH. Shevchenko claimed that the attack was “...
Bitcoin whales attack sellers at $22.3K as euro drops below USD parity
Bitcoin (BTC) drifted near $21,000 on the Aug. 22 Wall Street open as the new week began without a rebound. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView European commodity surge hammers...
Ethereum is under attack as U.S. sanctions apply at a protocol level
The hope of a decentralized, open, free internet is in jeopardy right now. This is not hyperbole, FUD, or clickbait. Ethermine, the largest Ethereum mining pool, no longer produces blocks containing T...
The Hidden Calculations Behind The Attack On Salman Rushdie
Mixed into the swell of outrage over the heinous knife attack on Salman Rushdie were questions about the alleged attacker. Was he a self-motivated lone fanatic or part of a plan elaborately conceived ...
What is Replay Attack? Possible impacts on your Ethereum NFTs & precaution
The second largest blockchain Ethereum is now weeks away from the long-awaiting merge. The upcoming update marks the complete transition of the blockchain from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (P...
DeFi Web Apps Block Users Hit by Tornado Cash ‘Dust Attack’
Sun claimed he was sent 0.01 ETH from an anonymous source via Tornado Cash, leading to Aave blocking his blockchain address Privacy advocates say the Treasury’s move to ban Tornado Cash is a violation...
Binance CEO Says Exchange Recovered $450 Million From the Curve Finance Attack – Bitcoin News
Following the recent Curve Finance attack, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced that the exchange had recovered $450 million from hackers. The decentralized finance (defi) platform Curve saw roughly $...
Here’s How Crypto Twitter Reacts to Attack on Tornado Cash
Vladislav Sopov Netherlands Crime Agency (FIOD) arrested developer of Tornado Cash mixer after project was sanctioned by OFAC; Crypto Twitter has something to say Last week, the U.S. watchdog OFAC put...
Binance Recovers 83% of Stolen Funds in Curve Finance DNS Attack
Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has helped recover crypto assets worth about $450,000 stolen from Curve Finance users. The funds represent about 83% of the total amount stolen from users. Bin...
Salman Rushdie stabbed in neck in NY attack, ‘Satanic Verses’ scribe airlifted to hospital
Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY. Joshua Goodman | AP Author Salman Rushdie was attacke...
Binance Recovers $450,000 Stolen in Curve Phishing Attack
Key Takeaways Binance has recovered $450,000, representing about 83% of the entire sum stolen in the Curve Finance frontend attack Tuesday. The crypto exchange Fixed Float also seized about 112 ETH, c...
Reddit User Calls US Sanction On Tornado Cash An Attack On ETH, Gives Solutions – crypto.news
On August 10th, a Reddit user @AllwaysBuyCheap, published a post calling the US government’s recent sanctions on Tornado Cash an attack. According to the crypto enthusiast, this sanction opens a new e...
Suspect In Cincinnati FBI Attack Killed
Topline An armed man who fled after attempting to breach the Cincinnati FBI office Thursday morning has been killed after a standoff with police, according to multiple reports. he seal of the FBI hang...
Curve fixed the bug caused by a hacker attack
According to the team’s statement on Twitter, it appears that the bug found in the Curve Finance protocol was fixed after a hacker attack. Updates should have propagated for https://t.co/vOeMYOTq0l ev...
Curve Finance Exploited in Ongoing Attack
Key Takeaways Curve Finance is suffering from an ongoing exploit. A malicious contract has so far siphoned more than $573,000 from victims. The Curve team has warned users against interacting with the...
As Interest Rates Rise, a Silent Vampire Attack on Crypto
But stablecoin issuers aren’t the only entities behind this silent vampire attack. Just as crypto has come to rely on a few centralized stablecoins, crypto firms have increasingly relied on a small nu...
deBridge flags attempted phishing attack, suspects Lazarus Group
Cross-chain protocols and Web3 firms continue to be targeted by hacking groups, as deBridge Finance unpacks a failed attack that bears the hallmarks of North Korea’s Lazarus Group hackers. deBridge Fi...
White Hat Hackers Asked To Return Stolen Crypto, Offered 10% Bounty on $190,000,000 Attack
Ethereum (ETH) bridge Nomad is offering entities involved in a massive hack of its platform a reward for returning stolen funds. Earlier this week, Nomad fell victim to a hack that saw roughly $190 mi...
Ethereum Miners Accused of a Consensus Level Attack on Ethereum
Recently a research paper was published that could put Ethereum miners into trouble. Israel-based Hebrew University published a research paper consisting of discoveries of initial evidence about conse...
Researchers say they discovered consensus level attack on Ethereum — miners cheating the system to earn more
A research paper published by The Hebrew University in Israel reports having discovered the “first evidence of a consensus-level attack on a major cryptocurrency.” The paper is currently awaiting peer...
North Korean Hackers Behind DeBridge Finance Attack: Co-Founder
Alex Smirnov, co-founder and project lead at DeBridge Finance, took to Twitter on Friday to report that his company was the target of an attempted cyberattack by the infamous North Korean Lazarus Grou...
Nomad Hackers Return $22M Following Bridge Attack
Key Takeaways The Nomad bridge recovery wallet has received $22 million following Monday’s $190 million hack. 35 different wallets have returned funds to the protocol, 24 of them before the 10% ...
DeFi Sybil attack created $7.5B fake TVL on Solana from ‘anon’ developers
An investigation led by CoinDesk has revealed that two brothers — Ian Macalinao and Dylan Macalinao — used pseudonymous developer profiles to inflate the TVL on Solana by $7.5 billion. Sybil Attacks T...
Slope wallets blamed for Solana-based wallet attack
As the dust settles from yesterday’s Solana ecosystem mayhem, data is surfacing that wallet provider Slope is largely responsible for the security exploit that stole crypto from thousands of Solana us...
Solana, USDC Drained From Wallets in Attack
An unknown attacker drained thousands of wallets containing at least $4 million worth of Solana and USDC late Tuesday night. The hack, which was still ongoing at 8:00 PM PST, seemed to originate on th...
Attorney John Deaton Says Ethereum Founder “Shameful” Comment Was An Attack On Innocent XRP Holders and Not Ripple
– Advertisement – Attorney John Deaton Blast Ethereum Co-Founder Again for His Grudge Against Ripple (XRP). Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has continued to receive backlash for his st...