The hacker exploited a flaw in the cross-chain DEX’s code. Hacker’s IP address, email address, and linked on-chain addresses were identified. Yesterday, a hacker made off with $21 million from the dec...
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Transit Swap Losts $21m on Code Bug Exploit, Hacker Returns 70% of Stolen Funds
Transit Swap, a multi-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator platform, announced via Twitter social media that it has lost $21 million after a hacker exploited an internal bug on its swap contr...
Amber Group reproduces Wintermute exploit in 48 hours using an Apple MacBook
After conducting an investigation into the recent $160 million exploit of Wintermute, digital assets firm Amber Group said it was able to repeat the full attack vector. Amber said it recalculated the ...
Crypto Sleuth: This Is Why the Wintermute Exploit Was an Inside Job
Crypto sleuth James Edwards, aka Librehash, has offered his take on the attack vector used to rob London-based crypto firm, Wintermute on Sep. 20, 2022, alleging that the attack was an inside job. Edw...
$160M Wintermute Security Exploit Could Have Been an Insider Job: Report
The leading crypto market maker, Wintermute, suffered a $160 million breach in its decentralized finance operations last week. On-chain data revealed tens of millions of dollars worth of Dai, USDC, Te...
Is Wintermute’s $160M exploit an inside job? This sleuth says…
One crypto-sleuth has claimed that the $160 million hack on algorithmic market maker Wintermute last week was an “inside job.” Needless to say, this has now sparked a brand-new crypto-conspiracy theor...
About $1M in crypto stolen from vanity address exploit.
Hacks and exploits are continuously harming the decentralized finance industry as another vanity wallet address follows the roster of DeFi victims. Due to those hacks and exploits, the DeFi space has ...
Profanity Vanity Addresses Suffer Another Exploit
Vanity addresses created using the Profanity vanity wallet address generator have suffered yet another hack leading to $966k in losses. The recent exploit follows a previous hack in similar fashion ta...
Hackers Nab Nearly $1 Million in Crypto From Ethereum ‘Vanity Adress’ Exploit
Roughly $950,000 worth of crypto has been stolen from an Ethereum “vanity address” generated with a tool called Profanity. The exploit leveraged a similar vulnerability related to the recent $160 mill...
Profanity Exploit Continues as Hackers Drain Another 732 ETH From Crypto Wallet
A hacker managed to get away with 732 ETH worth around $950,000 from a crypto wallet. Interestingly, blockchain security firm PeckShield revealed that the theft was carried out via the same vanity add...
Almost $1M in crypto stolen from vanity address exploit
Hacks and exploits continue to plague the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector as another vanity wallet address joins the roster of DeFi victims, which, collectively, have lost more than $1.6 billion i...
Acala reveals path to resuming operations after aUSD exploit
The Acala network today revealed its plans to resume operations after a minting error incident suffered by its aUSD stablecoin in August. Acala is a decentralized finance Polkadot parachain that power...
Crypto Market Maker Wintermute Suffered A $160M Exploit — What Happened? ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     On Tuesday, cryptocurrency market marker Wintermute reported losing $160 million in an exploit, becoming the latest victim in a series of high-level ...
Hackers Bag $160 Million in Wintermute DeFi Exploit
15 seconds ago | 2 mins read Defi News The CEO said that the company was still financially stable. The hacker’s ETH address is presently holding $163 million worth of digital assets. According to Gaev...
$160M Wintermute Hack Becomes Fifth Largest DeFi Exploit of 2022
Wintermute CEO, Evgeny Gaevoy has confirmed that the multi-million-dollar Wintermute hack was linked to a critical bug in the Ethereum vanity address-generating tool called Profanity. Wintermute, a cr...
Ethereum Fork ETHPoW Suffers Bridge Replay Exploit, Token Tanks 37%
ETHPoW, the proof-of-work blockchain forked from Ethereum that went live shortly after Ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake (PoS) last week, has fallen victim to a replay exploit that resulted in a...
Ethereum vanity address exploit may be cause of Wintermute hack
The Ethereum community is reviewing the nature of the recently announced $160 million Wintermute hack and has stumbled upon a potential attack vector. One of Wintermute’s addresses has the properties ...
GMX DEX Suffers $565,000 Exploit on Avalanche (AVAX) – crypto.news
Decentralized exchange GMX allegedly fell victim to a price manipulation exploit worth around $565,000 on the AVAX/USD pair. GMX Suffers $565K Price Manipulation Exploit GMX, a decentralized exchange,...
GMX Exchange Loses $565K In AVAX Exploit
Decentralized exchange GMX suffered a price manipulation on the AVAX/USD pair, resulting in losses of $565,000. AVAX/USD Pair Exploited As per a tweet on Sunday by security firm PeckShield, the exch...
BlockSec detects replay exploit with ETHPoW tokens
The Ethereum proof-of-work blockchain suffered a replay exploit with the attacker getting an extra 200 ETHW tokens after replaying a message from the proof-of-stake chain on ETHPoW, according to a cyb...
ETHW confirms contract vulnerability exploit, dismisses replay attack claims
Post-Ethereum Merge proof-of-work (PoW) chain ETHW has moved to quell claims that it had suffered an on-chain replay attack over the weekend. Smart contract auditing firm BlockSec flagged what it desc...
Ethereum PoW loses 200 WETH to Omni bridge vulnerability exploit
A replay attack against Omni bridge resulted in a hacker exploiting 200 WETH from the Ethereum PoW chain. On Sept. 18, security firm BlockSec identified a replay attack launched against the Ethereum ...
Decentralized exchange GMX suffers $565K price manipulation ‘exploit’
Decentralized exchange (DEX) GMX has reportedly suffered a price manipulation exploit from an exploiter who managed to make off with around $565,000 from the AVAX/USD market. The unidentified exploite...
GMX DEX Reportedly Suffers $565,000 Exploit
Decentralized exchange (DEX) GMX allegedly experiences price manipulation on the AVAX/USD pair in key exchanges. Open interest in AVAX long perpetual futures has accordingly been capped at $2 million,...
Binance accounting bug leads to $20m misallocation of HNT tokens
Helium foundation has alerted Binance about a bug that resulted in users erroneously receiving about $20 million worth of HNT. An accounting error discovered by Binance at some point last night result...
Hacker Moves $500K in DAI Through Tornado Cash From DAO Maker Exploit
Peckshield, a prominent blockchain security firm, took to Twitter to bring to light that $500K in stolen funds from the DAO Maker exploit are on the move. PeckShield and CertiK said an Ethereum addres...
500,000 DAI From DAO Maker Exploit Was Sent Through Tornado Cash, Security Analysts Report – Bitcoin News
On September 8, the crypto security and smart contract auditing firm Certik revealed that 500,000 DAI was sent through the Tornado Cash mixing platform after the funds were stolen in August 2021. The ...
Avalanche Flash Loan Exploit Sees $371K Stolen
The scammer deployed a custom smart contract The scammer leveraged a $51 million flash loan to manipulate the AVAX/USDC Joe LP pool price AVAX Price at the time of writing – $18.79 Avalanche-based lo...
Chainalysis and US law enforcement recover $30 million from Ronin exploit
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis and US law enforcement recovered $30 million in stolen crypto from the North Korea-linked hack on Ronin, the main blockchain for the web3 play-to-earn game Axie I...
Bad Actors Exploit NFT Watchdog After Collection Mint
The NFT space remains one of the growing sectors of digital assets. More people and businesses are tapping into the incredible opportunities available for brand advertisement and sensitization via dig...
Kyber Network Releases Update Following KyberSwap Front-End Exploit
Kyber Network has released an update after the front-end exploit that it had experienced. It will release an incident report by the end of the month. Kyber Network provided an update on the front-end ...
Acala Network Releases the Full Trace Report on Recent Network Exploit – crypto.news
The Acala Network released the full trace results report regarding all addresses involved in the aUSD incident. Mid August, Acala Network’s aUSD stablecoin depegged by more than 99%, forcing the Acala...