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Attackers Target Smart Contract Service Code
Decentralized proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain Hedera finally confirmed a security breach. In an update, the team behind the platform revealed that attackers managed to exploit the Smart Contract Servi...
Harmony Attackers Attempt to Launder Another $27 Million
Late last night, the attackers behind the Harmony exploit back in June 2022 attempted to cash out another batch of their ill-begotten ETH gains. Following the 41k ETH laundered via TornadoCash and Rai...
Wormhole Bridge Attackers Started Moving Stolen Ethers (ETH)
Vladislav Sopov Researchers noticed that attackers of Wormhole protocol started injecting stolen funds into staking mechanisms Contents Ethers (ETH) from Wormhole hack are on the run: Details Why is t...
Wormhole attackers transfer $2.9m USDC to a new wallet address months after hack
Wormhole Network exploiters have transferred $2.9m USDC to a new ethereum (ETH) wallet based on a report by crypto security site, Mistrack. Over 120,000 ETH were stolen in early February 2022 from Wor...
Cyber Attackers Used Ripple CEO’s Identity To Promote Fake Giveaways
Cyber attackers again successfully hacked the official Twitter account of Brazilian professional mixed martial artist Michel Pereira’s and impersonated Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse. They used the Ripp...
Lodestar Finance loses $6.9 million to an attacker’s manipulation on GLPOrcale
Lodestar Finance, one of the best Money Markets in the industry at the moment, has lost nearly $6.9 million funds to an oracle exploit. The hacker has drained all the deposits, forcing the platform to...
Hackers copied Mango Markets attacker’s methods to exploit Lodestar: CertiK
According to a post-mortem analysis provided by CertiK of the $5.8 million Lodestar Finance exploit that occurred on Dec. 10, 5. The hacker burned a little over 3 million in GLP, their profit on this...
Attackers use name of lead exchanges to target crypto startups
Tech giant Microsoft uncovered an attack targeting crypto startups using a pdf file that uses the names OKX, Binance, and Huobi. The pdf file is titled “OKX, Binance & Huobi VIP fee comparison.xls...
$17 Million in APE Locked for Staking, Here’s How Attackers Target Your Apecoins
Vladislav Sopov First rewards for Apecoin (APE) stakers are expected to accrue on December 12 Contents Stakers’ APE tokens are at risk $17,000,000 in Apecoin (APE) deposited to staking pools The...
Ankr protocol exploited trillions of aBNBc by attackers
On December 2nd, at 12:35 GMT, Peckshield flagged an exploit made by an attacker on Ankr protocol. The exploit made way with 20 trillion aBNBc reward tokens from the protocol. Ankr Reward Bearing Stak...
Attackers pocket $20 million in exploits on Ankr and Helio
A series of connected attacks ended up costing infrastructure provider Ankr and stablecoin issuer Helio Protocol a total of $20 million, according to on-chain analysis by security firm BlockSec. ...
Cyber Attackers Are Taking Advantage Of FTX’s Bankruptcy
The cyber attackers are utilizing the current situation of the crypto market to steal the funds from the FTX platform. After the announcement of FTX filings on November 11, 2022, millions of dollars’ ...
Abracadabra’s MIM Stablecoin Used by DeFi Attackers, Here’s How
Vladislav Sopov Attackers have stolen over $111,000 in MIM tokens, exploiting oracle vulnerability Contents Attackers get over $110,000 in MIM, oracles to blame MIM briefly loses its peg amid Binance/...
Deribit attackers transfer stolen ETH to Tornado cash crypto mixer
The Deribit hacker has taken off an amount of 1,10 Ether. The amount was moved with about 17 transactions. In the repercussions of the $28 million Deribit exploit, the anonymous hacker transfers stole...
Paul Pelosi’s Alleged Attacker’s Facebook Page Filled With 2020 Election Conspiracies, Reports Say
Topline The man who allegedly attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, posted on Facebook about conspiracies related to the 2020 election and Covid-19 pandemic, according to reports...
Moola Markets Has Been Robbed With $9M Attackers Returned 93% Funds
Attackers manipulated the prices of MOO tokens, which touched an all-time high. Moola Market got back 93.1% of funds, the remaining amount kept by Attackers as Bug Bounty. Blockchains and their use ...
Crypto Sector is Getting Increasingly Susceptible to Attackers
Anurag is working as a fundamental writer for The Coin Republic since 2021. He likes to exercise his curious muscles and research deep into a topic. Though he covers various aspects of the crypto indu...
Ethereum’s Aurora Pays $2 Million Bug Bounty to Attackers
Aurora offers a $2 Million bug bounty to a couple of hackers for identifying loopholes. Aurora is an Etheruam bridging solution for NEAR protocol. Bug bounty programs can effectively eliminate bad act...
The Cyber Attackers Are Targeting The Users Ahead Of The Ethereum Merge
There is no need for the Ethereum users to do anything to protect the funds before entering into the Merge. The funds in the customer’s wallet are still accessible after the merge. Nothing is re...
FBI seeks Bitcoin wallet information of ransomware attackers
Three federal agencies in the United States — the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Cente...
Binance Identifies KyberSwap attackers – InsideBitcoins.com
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Binance has helped identify two suspects who allegedly carried out the hack on the decentralized crypto exchange KyberSwap. The n...
Ronin Attackers Transfer Stolen $625 Million to Bitcoin Network
The latest findings show that the attackers converted the rest of the Ronin assets to renBTC using 1inch or Uniswap. Since Ren allows transferring value between blockchains, the hackers managed to bri...
Attackers on Ronin Bridge Made Off $625M Switch Money to Bitcoin
27 mins ago | 2 mins read Editors News The assets taken from Ethereum have been transferred by Ronin hackers . Most of the stolen funds were first converted to ETH and sent to Tornado Cash. The Ethere...
Nomad Hack: “Copycats” Steal $88M by Replicating an Attacker’s Code
According to a new analysis released this week by cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, 88% % of the exploiters behind Nomad’s bridge hack were likely individuals were Copycats who copied the key attacker...
Attackers Wipe Out $3.5M From Crypto Game Dragoma Through Rug Pull Technique
Scamming and hacking activities seem to be skyrocketing within the crypto industry. Even with the increase in innovation and technological application in the crypto space, criminals are also advancing...
Curve Finance DNS Hijacked, Attackers Stole $570K from User Wallets
In another major security incident in the crypto space, decentralized crypto exchange Curve Finance found its DNS being hijacked. The hackers managed to deploy a malicious contract on the home page, w...
Attackers stole $6 million from Audius by exploiting a bug in the contract
Decentralized music streaming platform Audius was exploited on July 23 when an attacker exploited a vulnerability in its governance smart contract code. According to Audius’ analysis of the hack, the ...
How Attackers Stole Around $1.1M Worth of Tokens From Decentralized Music Project Audius
After Proposal #85 was put up, a transaction was executed that delegated some 10 trillion AUDIO towards the votes, thus skewing the proposal in favor of the attacker. Circulating supply was unaffected...
North Korean Attackers Behind $100M Harmony Hack: Report
After hackers stole $100 million worth of cryptocurrency from Harmony Protocol on Friday, the team behind the layer 1 blockchain announced it would offer a $1 million reward to anyone with information...
Harmony Exploited For $100M After Attackers Target Horizon Cross-chain Bridge
2 hours ago | 2 mins read Altcoin News The attacker carried out 16 malicious transactions ranging in value from 14,190 to 30 ETH. The attacker has not yet attempted to use a privacy protocol like Torn...
Attackers loot $5M from Osmosis in LP exploit, $2M returned soon after
Osmosis, a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the Cosmos network, was halted just before 3:00 am EST on Wednesday after attackers exploited a liquidity provider (LP) bug to the tune of roughly $5 m...