Godfrey Benjamin Metamask has shared details of new scam called “Address Poisoning” Decentralized noncustodial wallet Metamask has sounded the alarm over a new scam that is now being used ...
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CFTC files suit against Avraham Eisenberg for market manipulation in Mango exploit
The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed suit against self-described digital artist Avraham Eisenberg on Jan. 9, charging him with two counts of market manipulation in conne...
Nomad exploit wallet address transfers $1.5m to crypto mixer Tornado Cash
While the Nomad Bridge team works to relaunch the platform, a new movement of 1200 ETH has been detected from one of the wallet addresses associated with the hack. A wallet address associated with Nom...
Leonicorn Swap divulges future plan of action post exploit
It was the day when Leonicorn Swap happened to have launched its reward-sharing model. On the same day, an apparent hacker somehow managed to gain access and took away all of the tokens contained in t...
Nomad exploit wallet address transfers $1.5M to Tornado Cash
An address related to the $190-million Nomad exploit has moved $1.57 million in Ether (ETH) to the sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash. In an alert, blockchain security firm CertiK flagged that a wa...
Balancer Warns of Potential Exploit, Asks LPs to Withdraw Assets
DeFi protocol Balancer asked liquidity providers to remove their liquidity immediately from some pools because of a security issue. In a Jan. 6 Twitter thread, the DeFi protocol revealed that the affe...
Fake Solana NFTs Are Being Sold on Magic Eden in ‘Massive’ Exploit
Creators and collectors of Solana-based NFTs are up in arms today as a major exploit at leading marketplace Magic Eden appears to be allowing scammers to pass off and sell fake NFTs as being part of p...
Magic Eden to refund users after fake NFTs sold due to exploit
Nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace Magic Eden has pledged to refund all users who were duped into purchasing fake NFTs on its website as a result of an exploit. In a Jan. 4 statement, the company sai...
Magic Eden falls victim to exploit: Here’s why your NFTs are safe
Magic Eden stated that an exploit resulted in the sale of 25 fraudulent NFTs across four collections in the last 24 hours. The NFT marketplace has promised to refund all users who were duped into purc...
Bitcoin Developers Loses Staggering $3.3M in PGP Exploit
The PGP keys were reportedly compromised for the hacker to gain access to more than 200 Bitcoins lying in the developers wallet. In the latest development of a crypto wallet hack, Bitcoin developer Lu...
Anti-Vaxxers Exploit Damar Hamlin’s Crisis With Unfounded Covid-19 Vaccine Claims
Joe Burrow #9 of the Cincinnati Bengals, Jordan Poyer #21 of the Buffalo Bills, and other players on … [+] the field watched in stunned silence as a medical team administered cardio-pulmonary re...
Bitcoin developer claims loss of $3.3 million after PGP exploit
Bitcoin core developer Luke Dashjr claimed his wallet was hacked due to a Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) key compromise. Dashjr’s wallet had multiple outgoing transactions on Dec. 31, totaling over 2...
Bitcoin Core Developer Loses $3.5M in BTC in a Supposed Exploit
Veteran Bitcoin core dev Luke Dashjr took to Twitter on January 1st to reveal that his PGP key was compromised in a hack that resulted in the loss of a significant amount of BTC. Dashjr added that he ...
Crypto Trader Involved in $110,000,000 Exploit Arrested for Alleged Commodities Fraud and Manipulation
The crypto trader behind the $110 million exploit of the Solana (SOL)-based decentralized finance (DeFi) trading platform Mango Markets is now under the custody of US authorities. A court document sub...
US to investigate $372 million stolen in FTX exploit post bankruptcy
Hours after defunct crypto exchange FTX and hedge fund Alameda Research filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11, large amounts of funds were moved out of the exchange. Both firms were owned by Sam Bankmand-Fr...
US Department of Justice probing $372M FTX exploit: Report
According to a Dec. 27 Bloomberg report, the United States Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the whereabouts of approximately $372 million in missing digital assets from now-def...
BitKeep CEO says some users’ private keys remain at risk after exploit
According to a letter posted on Chinese blockchain news publisher Odaily.com on Dec. 27, Kevin Como, the anonymous CEO of BitKeep, warned that users’ private keys are still at risk after a security in...
Certik Sees $12M recovered from Crypto Exploit Despite Audit
Ecological stablecoin project Defrost Finance will return $12 million in funds stolen through Dec. 23, 2022, exploit, despite undergoing a code audit by CertiK. Defrost will use on-chain data to ensur...
BitGet becomes the latest victim to a DeFi exploit as BitKeep loses more than…
BitKeep lost more than $8 million to a DeFi exploit caused by malicious APK packages The BitKeep team assured compensation for users who have lost funds BitKeep, a non-custodial wallet owned by popula...
Hackers drain $8M in assets from Bitkeep wallets in latest DeFi exploit
While many are still enjoying the holiday season, hackers are hard at work, draining around $8 million in an ongoing BitKeep wallet exploit. On Dec. 26, some users of the multichain crypto wallet Bit...
Ankr Confirms Its Exploit Was Inside Job, Shares Recovery Plan
Vladislav Sopov Blockchain RPC provider Ankr unveiled final post-mortem of its Dec. 1 attack Contents Here’s how Ankr mitigated attack Ankr announces massive improvement plan On Dec. 1, 2022, bl...
Ankr exploit: While its staking derivatives recover, BNB continues to decline
The price of BNB has been on a continuous decline since the Ankr exploit. Ankr confirmed that a former employee was responsible for the $5 million exploit. Despite Binance Coin’s [BNB] staking derivat...
Ankr says ex-employee caused $5M exploit, vows to improve security
A $5 million hack of the Ankr protocol on Dec. 1 was caused by a former team member, according to a Dec. 20 announcement from the Ankr team. The ex-employee conducted a “supply chain attack” by puttin...
ANKR protocol new recovery plan following $5M exploit
The trillion aBNBc exploit on ANKR protocol extended to several other crypto platforms. The protocol custodians identified the perpetrator and set a recovery plan to compensate the affected parties. ...
How To Exploit Crypto Correlations For Quick Profits?
If you’ve followed the crypto market for any amount of time, you’ll likely have noticed that certain assets seem to move in tandem, rising and falling in pairs or even groups. This reality presents an...
Explicit Post Mortem report of Raydium Liquidity Pool V4’s exploit
A vicious and much-determined attacker acted inappropriately using the Raydium Liquidity Pool V4’s authority account. However, this is achieved by connecting with the Pool Owner or the administration ...
Solana Based DeFi Exchange Raydium Investigated An Exploit
On Dec. 16, 2022 Raydium (RAY), the Solana (SOL) based DeFi Exchange (DEX) investigated that the exploit had affected liquidity pools. As a hacker exploited RAY for more than $4.3 Million in crypto. A...
Solana (SOL) Price Drop Due To Exploit; Time To Buy?
Solana (SOL) Price News: A Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol on Solana blockchain experienced an exploit that drained as many as $2 million in user assets. According to reports, owner authority wa...
SOL Plummets 10% Following $2 Million Exploit on Solana-Based DEX ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     SOL token lost 9.5% Friday to trade at $12.82 – according to CoinMarketCap – after Solana-based decentralized exchange Raydium was compromised for $2...
Solana-based exchange Raydium suffers $2 million exploit
Raydium, a decentralized exchange built on the Solana blockchain, suffered an exploit that appears to have taken more than $2 million. Raydium acknowledged the exploit and said it believed that ...
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...
Top Cardano-powered DEX MinSwap saw front-running exploit
Minswap investigates a front-running attack on its platform after a user called their attention to a suspicious transaction. Minswap, one of Cardano’s foremost multi-pool decentralized exchanges, exp...