An attacker gained access to PwC Venezuela’s Twitter account and has been actively posting cryptocurrency phishing links for the last 8 hours at the time of the writing. Considering that all the tweet...
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KyberSwap says it will pay 15% bounty if attacker returns $265K in stolen crypto
KyberSwap, a multichain DEX aggregator, disclosed Thursday that a frontend exploit resulted in the theft of $265,000 in user funds. KyberSwap told victims of the hack it will compensate any funds lost...
Defi Attacker Siphons $570,000 From Curve Finance, Crypto Exchange Fixedfloat Freezes 112 Ethereum – Bitcoin News
Reports indicate that the decentralized finance (defi) protocol Curve was hacked for $570,000 in ethereum after people noticed that Curve’s front end was exploited. The attackers then tried to launder...
Slope Wallet says it will pay 10% bounty if attacker returns stolen funds
Slope Wallet, the Solana wallet platform exploited earlier this week for roughly $5 million, has announced that it will pay a 10% bounty (worth around $450,000) if the attacker returns the stolen fund...
Crema Finance Attacker Returns Stolen Funds, Accepts Bounty Reward – crypto.news
Crema Finance announced on July 7, 2022, four days after the hack of the Crema Finance DeFi protocol, that the hacker has accepted a bounty of 45,455 SOL, and has returned 6,064 ETH and 23967.9 SOL. C...
Attacker In Paris Terrorist Massacre Receives Life Sentence
Topline One of over 20 attackers–the only one believed to have survived–of an Islamic extremist group that attacked the Bataclan theater and other sites in Paris received life without the possibility ...
Harmony Protocol Attacker Starts Laundering Money Through Tornado Cash
$64 million are remaining in the hacker’s Ethereum wallet after siphoning. Harmony reassured its customers that the theft had no effect on its BTC bridge. According to PeckShield, the hackers who stol...
Harmony’s Harmony Disrupted: Analysts Says $100M Attacker Gained Control Of Multi-Sig Wallet
The Crypto industry witnesses attacks often, and Harmony is the recent victim of one such act. The unknown hacker managed to snatch away multiple assets like BNB, ETH, etc., which were bridged f...
Attacker Bags 20 Million Optimism (OP) Tokens Meant for Wintermute Loan – crypto.news
Ethereum-scaling Layer-2 solution Optimism recently announced that some 20 million OP governance tokens were stolen by an attacker who interfered in a token recovery process involving Wintermute. Atta...
Bored Ape Yacht Club Discord Attacker May Have Been Involved in Previous NFT Phishing Scams – Bitcoin News
On June 4, 2022, the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) Discord server was compromised and a phishing scam targeted non-fungible token (NFT) collectors holding BAYC, Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC), and Othersi...
The Attacker of UST Stablecoin Made Rich Profits, Here’s How
Since the beginning of the week, Terra’s UST stablecoin has seen a major crash de-pegging from the USD. At the same time, Terra’s native cryptocurrency LUNA has corrected by over 80% in the last four ...
L.A. District Attorney Won’t Press Felony Charges Against Alleged Dave Chappelle Attacker
Topline The Los Angeles District Attorney has declined to file felony charges against the man accused of attacking Dave Chappelle on stage Tuesday night during a stand-up comedy show, the DA’s office ...
NEAR Protocol’s Rainbow Bridge Attacker Loses 2.5 ETH
On May 1, the NEAR Protocol Rainbow Bridge was attacked. The cross-chain bridge had temporarily been suspended for maintenance after detecting abnormal activities. In a detailed post, Alex Shevchenko,...
Failed Attack on NEAR Protocol Rainbow Bridge Cost Attacker 2.5 ETH
The NEAR Protocol Rainbow Bridge was attacked on May 1. No funds have been stolen, and the attacker even lost some money, according to the CEO of Aurora Labs, Alex Shevchenko. Shevchenko added that ad...
Bored Ape Yacht Club Instagram Hacked, Attacker Steals Over $2.5M in NFTs
The Instagram page of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) was hacked, with the attacker posting phishing links. The attack resulted in over $2.5 million worth of NFTs being stolen. Bored Ape Yacht Club (B...
Loophole Spotted in NBA Association Non-Fungible Tokens as Attacker Exploits Code To Mint 100 NFTs
– Advertisement – The attacker exploited the loophole and minted 100 Association NFTs. Less than 24 hours after the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced the minting of its Eth...
Attacker Drains $182M From Beanstalk Stablecoin Protocol
According to the summary, the attacker took out a flash loan on lending platform Aave which enabled them to amass a large amount of Beanstalk’s native governance token, Stalk. With the voting power gr...
Attacker Steals $11M Worth of Crypto
Not one, but two decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols – Agave and Hundred Finance – were exploited in a fresh case of a “re-entrancy” attack. The hacker reportedly managed to siphon funds worth $11 ...
Alleged ransomware attacker extradited to the US, $28.2 million in bitcoin seized
A Canadian man was extradited to the US on Wednesday after being accused of conducting ransomware attacks in 2020. Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, 34, from Quebec, was accused of carrying out dozens of ...
Attacker Hacks Arbitrum’s Treasure DAO for Over 100 NFTs by Leveraging Marketplace Exploit – Bitcoin News
A non-fungible token market platform built on top of Arbitrum called Treasure DAO was hacked on March 3 at 7:33 a.m. (EST), according to a post mortem analysis authored by the security-focused firm Ce...
Cydia Dev Discloses Ethereum L2 Bug — Optimism Attacker Could Have ‘Printed an Arbitrary Quantity of Tokens’ – Bitcoin News
On February 10, the well-known developer of Cydia and iOS Jailbreak, Jay Freeman, otherwise known as Saurik, published a Twitter thread about a bug he found in the Layer-2 (L2) scaling protocol known ...
OpenSea Bug Allows Attacker to Get Massive Discount on Popular NFTs
A bug on the non-fungible tokens (NFT) marketplace OpenSea has allowed an attacker to get away with massive discounts on several NFTs and make huge profit. The bug, which was discovered as early as De...