The most recent episodes of Laura Shin’s Unchained podcast (Feb 24, 25, and March 1) have all explored the Ethereum DAO hack in greater detail, with further discussion and speculation on how and why t...
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Bitcoin For A Tank — Hacker Group Offers $52,000 For Russian Troops To Surrender Their Tanks
Bombing your adversary is no longer the most effective method for winning a war. For example, this group of hackers is attempting to bargain with Russian troops fighting Ukraine by paying $52,000 in B...
Hacker Group Anonymous Vows to Disrupt Russia’s Internet — RT Websites Become ‘Subject of Massive DDoS Attacks’ – Bitcoin News
The international hacktivist collective known as Anonymous has vowed to attack Russian government websites over the recent Ukraine invasion. So far Anonymous says that it hacked the Russian Ministry o...
Solana Hacker House World Tour Hits Prague
The Solana Hacker House world tour has reached Prague today, on the back of a world tour where the Solana Foundation visited Los Angeles, Singapore, and Hong Kong, to kick off this year’s House ...
World’s biggest Hacker group “anonymous” Have launched a cyberwar against Russia
Anonymous claims to have knocked down the website of Russian propaganda outlet RT News. Anonymous, a hacker organization, has taken down multiple Russian government websites, including the state-contr...
Crypto Space Needs To Self-Regulate To Reduce Hacker Threat
HodlX Guest Post Submit Your Post Since 2016, an estimated $3.1 billion has been lost (excluding Africrypt and Bitconnect scams) to malicious actors attacking exchanges, DeFi protocols and marketpl...
Investigation Reveals TenX CEO Toby Hoenisch As The Ethereum DAO Hacker
An investigation carried out by Laura Shin and blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has claimed to identify the person behind The DAO hack of 2016. The Ethereum DAO hack has been one of the longest a...
Ethereum DAO Hacker Doxxed? This Tool Led To His Identity
Reporter Laura Shin shared new information related to the mythical 2016 Ethereum DAO hack. As part of a larger investigation for her new book, Shin claims a long-rumored Chainalysis tool tracked down ...
Journalist Claims She Identified the 2016 DAO Hacker, Evidence Shows Investigators ‘De-Mixed’ Wasabi Transactions – Bitcoin News
An article published by journalist Laura Shin, and research stemming from the blockchain surveillance firm Chainalysis, claims to identify the alleged identity of The DAO hacker who drained millions o...
TenX CEO Toby Hoenisch Named as $11 Billion Ethereum DAO Hacker
The man responsible for hacking Ethereum DAO has been named as former TenX CEO Toby Hoenisch. The 2016 hack resulted in a controversial Ethereum hard fork that rolled back the network so stolen funds ...
Has The DAO Hacker That Almost Killed Ethereum Been Identified?
Key Takeaways Crypto journalist Laura Shin says she has identified the person responsible for The DAO hack from 2016. She points to Toby Hoenisch, a 36-year-old Austrian programmer and co-founder and ...
He’s the DAO hacker, doxxed in new book
There are hacks and there are hacks, some are quickly forgotten even though much money was stolen, others stay in the collective memory of the crypto space for a very long time, gaining almost mythica...
Coinbase Awards $250,000 to Hacker Who Exposed Security Vulnerability
Leading US crypto exchange Coinbase is awarding a white hat hacker hundreds of thousands of dollars for finding and exposing a security vulnerability. Last week, a pseudonymous researcher by the name ...
Solana Foundation Hacker House event kicks off in Moscow
The Solana (SOL/USD) Foundation x Neon Labs Hacker House, a six-day event with mentorship from Neon Labs and other partners and in-person guidance from core Solana Labs engineers, will take place betw...
Out on $3M Bond, Alleged Bitfinex Hacker Rushes to Release New Rap Video
After being freed on a $3M bond, a YouTube channel belonging to Heather Morgan released three previously unseen videos on Friday, with a rap video among the exclusive content that is sure to delight h...
AscendEx hacker transfers over $1.5 million ETH to Uniswap
TL;DR Breakdown The hackers who carried out the AscendEx attack have begun moving some of the stolen assets to Uniswap. AscendEX lost over $77.7 million in the hot wallet hack. The frequency of crypto...
Cardano Foundation Doubles Hacker Bounty for Finding Security Vulnerabilities in Its Blockchain
The Cardano Foundation is temporarily doubling the rewards for its “Bug Bounty” program that awards hackers cash for finding any weaknesses in the smart contract platform’s blockchain. In August, the ...
Hacker Siphons $80 Million From Qubit Cross-Chain Bridge, Largest Defi Exploit of 2022 to Date – Coinotizia
Findings stemming from a recent report published by the security-focused blockchain firm Certik indicate that the Binance smart chain ↔ Ethereum bridge called Qubit has been hacked for $80 million. Da...
Hacker Scoops Up $2 Million Bounty After Spotting Fatal Flaw In Ethereum Rollup
A hacker has made off with $2 million in bug bounty after finding an alarming vulnerability with the Ethereum network. This bug could have been very bad if it had been found by black hat hackers who c...
Cardano Foundation doubles hacker bounties until March 25
Cardano (ADA/USD) Foundation is holding a six-week promotion on all assets clarified in Scope below, effective from Monday, 14th February to Friday, 25th March, Hacker One wrote. They will double all ...
Hacker opts for $2M bug bounty over printing more `Ether`
TL;DR Breakdown Hacker named Jay Freeman chooses $2M as his bug bounty instead of creating an infinite supply of “Ether.” It isn’t the first time that ethereum has been hacked. In recent years, it has...
Hacker Helps Coinbase Fix Security Bug and Avert Potential Losses
A lone hacker has helped leading US crypto exchange Coinbase resolve a security flaw and sidestep potential losses. The white hat hacker who goes by the pseudonym Tree of Alpha took to Twitter to ask ...
White Hat Hacker Protects Coinbase From Danger By Spotting Threat
A White Hat hacker’s prompt intervention saved Coinbase’s sophisticated trading platform from disaster. “Tree of Alpha,” a White Hat Hacker, contacted Coinbase Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong ...
White Hat Hacker Saves Coinbase From Potential ‘Market-Nuking’ Exploit
A white hat hacker known as “Tree of Alpha” recently averted a significant crisis for Coinbase, involving its Advanced Trading platform. The hacker who goes by the name “Tree of Alpha,” called out Coi...
Coinbase Fixes “Potentially Market-Nuking” Exploit, Thanks To This White-Hat Hacker ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     An ethical hacker notifies Coinbase of a potential exploit on Twitter. The exchange responded swiftly and sorted out the vulnerability roughly 5 hour...
Coinbase Trading Vulnerability Exposed by White-Hat Hacker
Twitter user Tree of Alpha notified the Coinbase team of the exploit The exchange suspended trading on its new Trading platform HackerOne is a platform that runs bug bounty programs Cryptographic mon...
How This Hacker Unlocked A $2 Million Crypto Wallet
The theft of cryptocurrency has become such a commonplace thing these days that the recent ‘wormhole hack’ which saw $325 million stolen from the DeFi bridge, is hardly that shocking anymo...
Breakdown: How the hacker stole 80k ETH from the Solana Wormhole bridge
One of the worst hacks against the Solana blockchain happened on Wednesday when a hacker managed to transfer 80,000 ether (ETH), over $214 million at the moment of writing, out of the Solana system an...
Hacker Steals Over $323 Million Worth Of ETH From Cross-Chain Protocol Wormhole
Cross-chain protocol Wormhole experienced a significant hack after an attacker exploited a vulnerability in the protocol and stole nearly $323 million worth of ETH. Wormhole acts as a bridge between t...
Hacker Steals $320 Million From Solana, Ethereum Bridge Wormhole
Wormhole, a protocol that allows users to move their tokens and NFTs between Solana and Ethereum, has confirmed that it suffered an exploit of 120,000 Wrapped Ethereum, worth over $320 million—higher ...
Hacker Steals $250 Million From Solana, Ethereum Bridge Wormhole
Wormhole, a protocol that allows users to move their tokens and NFTs between Solana and Ethereum, has gone offline as it investigates an exploit of $254 million in Wrapped Ethereum. According to Wormh...
DeFi platform Qubit Finance begs hacker to return $80 million in stolen funds
The loss of funds has a profound effect on many people Hacker stole 206,809 binance coins It is worth more than $80M Losing $80 million worth of BNB tokens in a new hack, Qubit Finance joined the app...