Prospective users of an Arbitrum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) project have been left out of pocket following a $2 million exploit. Web3 security firm CertiK flagged the incident on Feb. 21, foll...
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Platypus salvages $2.4 million in hacked funds with BlockSec’s help
Published 50 minutes earlier on Published 2 hours and 50 minutes earlier on After the Platypus protocol was hacked yesterday, at least 2.4 million USDC was returned to the exploited platform with help...
Flash loan exploit appears to be behind Platypus USD stablecoin attack
Platypus USD (USP) lost its dollar parity on Thursday following an apparent exploit that allowed a wallet to siphon off about $8.5 million from the token’s liquidity pools, just weeks after Plat...
Arbitrum Stablecoin Exploit Has Happy Ending: Funds Returned
A yield-automating protocol on Arbitrum was exploited over the weekend in an incident that boosted the hacker’s balance of their US dollar stablecoin Sperax (USDS). But in a plot twist, the team...
550 BNB lost in contract exploit by decentralized exchange
Recently, the decentralized exchange (DEX) system known as CoW Swap came under assault, resulting in the loss of at least 550 BNB (BNB) due to a contract hack that permitted money transfers away from ...
CoWSwap Loses Over 550 BNB Tokens Through Solver Exploit
The crypto industry has been trying to increase the safety of most crypto assets and protocols using modern technological approaches. However, issues of exploits in the industry are becoming more ramp...
CoW Swap hacker milks over 550 BNB using ‘solver’ exploit
Decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol CoW Swap recently suffered an attack, losing at least 550 BNB (BNB) in a contract exploit that approved fund transfers from the protocol. Blockchain surveyor MevR...
DeFi Platform CoW Protocol Loses Over 550 BNB in Contract Exploit
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol CoW Swap has suffered a smart contract exploit, leading to the loss of approximately 551 BNB ($181,600). According to reports, the attacker added a wallet address...
CoW Swap Protocol Exploit Drains 550 BNB
CoW (Coincidence of Wants) Protocol , the decentralized finance platform over which CoW Swap is built, has suffered from a multisig attack on its settlement smart contract. The threat disclosure was f...
Scammers Seek To Exploit Damus’ Popularity With Fake Tokens
Bad actors have launched scam tokens claiming to be linked to the Damus app. The team has confirmed that there will be no token for Damus and that users should be wary of scams. Bad actors are exploit...
DeFi Protocol Orion Finance Gives Rundown on $3M Exploit
Orion Protocol is the latest decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol to suffer an exploit this year. On-chain sleuths have just released the post-mortem of the attack. Orion Protocol was the victim of a...
Pig Butchering Crypto Scams Exploit UK’s Companies House: Report
According to an investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Observer, more than 168 shell companies in the United Kingdom are suspected of operating fraudulent crypto or foreign ex...
Cryptojacking: a sneaky way to exploit your computer resources
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Cybercriminals are finding new ways to infect your device. For instance, they might come after credentials or target users via ph...
Reentrancy Exploit Siphons $3m Off Orion Protocol
Orion Protocol, a decentralized protocol enabling liquidity pools to get reliable access and exposure between centralized and decentralized exchanges, was subjected to an exploit due to vulnerabilitie...
Crypto user behind $116m Mango Markets exploit waives right to bail – Cryptopolitan
Attorneys assigned to the crypto user suspected of orchestrating a $116-million heist from decentralized exchange Mango Markets have conceded their client should remain detained during court proceedin...
AllianceBlock targeted by $12M exploit
AllianceBlock has been attacked in a multi-million dollar exploit, according to a Feb. 1 announcement by the DeFi project. That report indicates that an attacker gained access to 110 million ALBT toke...
Crypto exploit losses in January see nearly 93% year-on-year decline
Aside from the bullish crypto market rally in January, there’s been more positive industry news as the month saw a steep decline in losses from exploits compared to the same time last year. According ...
BonqDAO exploited for $88 million, Allianceblock tokens stolen during the exploit
Crypto protocols BonqDAO and AllianceBlock have been exploited for approximately $88 million due to an exploit in one of BonqDAO’s smart contracts. The exploit occurred around 1 p.m. EST t...
dYdX suspends the Layer-2 transfer feature to seal a possible exploit
dYdX, a decentralized exchange supporting the perpetual trading of crypto assets, including ethereum (ETH) and bitcoin (BTC), has suspended the Layer-2 transfer feature. The move follows a recommendat...
Mango Labs Sues Avraham Eisenberg Over Mango Markets Exploit
Avraham Eisenberg, the self-professed exploiter of Solana-based platform Mango Markets, is being sued by the DeFi lending protocol’s developer, Mango Labs, for the $47 million Eisenberg allegedly stil...
Solana-Based Trading Platform Mango Markets Sues Crypto Trader Behind $100,000,000 Exploit
A Solana-based (SOL) decentralized crypto exchange is suing the bad actor behind the alleged $100 million exploit of its network last October. In a new court filing in the Southern District of New Yor...
‘Victims of Ankr exploit’ group unhappy with 50% reimbursement
A group calling itself “Victims of Ankr Exploit” have claimed that its members lost over 13,000 BNB liquid staking coins (over $4 million worth at the time of writing) as a result of the Dec. 2 Ankr e...
Moonbirds Creator Loses $1 Million In NFTs After Wallet Exploit
The creator of the Moonbirds NFT collection, Kevin Rose, has lost around $1 million in NFTs after falling victim to a wallet exploit. Rose lost a number of NFTs, including 25 Chronie Squiggles and an...
Wormhole exploiter converts $150 million in ETH to staked assets and levers up
Following days of inactivity, the address associated with the theft of $323 million worth of ETH from the cross-chain protocol Wormhole began shuffling assets, Etherscan records show. News of th...
Pharma’s Strategy To Exploit A Depression-Era Antitrust Law Would Raise Drug Costs For Consumers
The prescription drug market is bewildering to many, and its complexity can make rational discussions about the causes of high drug prices exceedingly difficult. It also means that government official...
Bad Actors Use OpenSea Exploit to Sell Stolen BAYC NFTs
Bad actors have exploited OpenSea’s stolen ape policy to sell the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs to collectors. One prominent holder said that it happened to him twice in one week. OpenSea is under ...
SEC charges Avraham Eisenberg for $116 million Mango Markets exploit
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Avraham Eisenberg, who is known as Mango Avi, with orchestrating an attack on Mango Markets and draining $116 million from the crypto trading platfo...
Hackers exploit Raydium protocol, send $2.7 million
Blockchain security company CertiK issued a warning in which it revealed that an exploiter of the Raydium protocol had contributed 1,774.5 ether (ETH) to the mixer. At the time of this writing, the su...
BitKeep Expects to Compensate All Victims of $8M Exploit by March-End
Multi-chain crypto wallet BitKeep revealed that it will launch the compensation portal in the first week of February, and 50% of the funds are expected to be returned to users by the end of the same m...
Snowfall Protocol (SNW) price increases to $0.182, SOL under massive exploit claims after fake NFTs being sold, AWS collaborates with Avalanche
Advertisement     New cryptocurrencies are launched yearly, but only a few reach great heights. One such cryptocurrency is Snowfall Protocol (SNW). SNW has grown remar...
Polygon-Based Project Jarvis Loses $660K to a Security Exploit
Jarvis Network recently announced losing over half a million dollars to a security breach. The exploit cost the popular Polygon DeFi project 663,101 Matic tokens, or USD 660,000. According to the late...
Binance And Huobi Team Up To Recover Stolen Funds From Harmony One Exploit
Hacking in the crypto industry has been a prominent part of the space. One of the recent significant ones, the Harmony bridge exploit, has been under investigation since it occurred. The latest update...