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Lazarus Hacker Group Targets MacOS Users Through Crypto Jobs
The Lazarus Group are North Korean hackers who are now sending unsolicited and fake crypto jobs targeted toward Apple’s macOS operating system. The hacker group has deployed malware which conducts the...
MEV bot earns $1M but loses everything to a hacker an hour later
An Ethereum arbitrage trading bot managed to hit the jackpot and lose it all on the same day in an ironic turn of events in decentralized finance (DeFi). In a Twitter thread, Robert Miller, who works...
Hacker Exploits Profanity’s Vanity Address to Steal $950 in ETH – crypto.news
Barely one week after the Wintermute hack, $950,000 in Ether (ETH) has been stolen from a crypto wallet through a “vanity address” exploit, according to reports on September 26, 2022. Profanity-Genera...
Hacker steals $950,000 from crypto vanity address as exploits continue
A hacker has stolen $950,000 in ether from a crypto wallet via the same vanity address exploit linked to an attack on trading firm Wintermute last week. The hacker stole 732 ETH on Sept. 25 and sent i...
Motley Fool Stock-Pick Hacker Pleads Guilty to $3 Million Fraud
(Bloomberg) — An Idaho man who worked as an information technology professional admitted to making at least $3.5 million by illegally accessing the stock picks of the personal finance website Mo...
Alleged Teenage ‘TeaPot’ Uber Hacker Arrested In England
Topline The 17-year-old believed to be “TeaPot,” who hacked Uber and is believed to be behind another hack of Rockstar Games this month, was arrested in England on Friday, accused of infiltrating the ...
Revolut suffers a hacker attack
The technology and financial company based across the Channel, Revolut, which focuses on banking services such as prepaid debit cards, currency exchanges, cryptocurrencies and peer-to-peer payments, h...
10% White-Hat Bounty Window Closing for $160M Wintermute Hacker
The clock is ticking for the Wintermute hacker to return $160 million in stolen funds, after which the London-based company will take legal action. Following the Wintermute attack on Sep. 20, 2022, th...
Hacker Saves Abritrum From Ethereum-Draining Bug in Nitro Upgrade
A white hat hacker has discovered a bug within the latest upgrade for Arbitrum, an Ethereum scaling network, that could have led to the theft of over $530 million. Arbitrum builder OffChain Labs earl...
Market maker Wintermute tells hacker to return funds or face legal action
Market making firm Wintermute has sent a message over the Ethereum blockchain to the hacker that stole $160 million from the firm on Tuesday. Sent at midnight UTC on Thursday, the message told the hac...
White hat hacker grumbles over Arbitrum bounty reward after saving network from $475M loss
Riptide, a white hat hacker that discovered a vulnerability on Arbitrum, tweeted that his find was eligible for the max bounty reward of $2 million instead of the 400 ETH ($53,000) reward he got. No b...
Another White Hat Hacker Saves the Day After Revealing Arbitrum Vulnerability
An exploitable fault in the bridge connecting Ethereum and Arbitrum Nitro was revealed by an anonymous developer, avoiding another major crypto hack in the crypto ecosystem. The white hat hacker, ript...
Hacker steals $3.3 million using Profanity’s vanity Ethereum addresses
Since the crypto industry expanded its growth, it has become the favorite place for hackers to commit exploits. The Ethereum vanity addresses generated via the Profanity tool have now become the lates...
Arbitrum Rewards Hacker With 400 ETH For Detecting a Critical $400M Vulnerability
On September 19, Arbitrum, one of the most popular Layer 2 solutions for Ethereum, paid 400 ETH (about $560,000) to a white hat hacker who found a potential vulnerability in its code. The white hat ha...
White Hat Hacker Gets $500k+ for Finding Critical Bug on Arbitrum
A white hat hacker has received a 400 ETH bounty worth more than $500,000 for finding a potential vulnerability on the Ethereum-based layer 2 scaling solution Arbitrum network. The bug was reportedly ...
Arbitrum Saved From Major ETH Loss by White Hat Hacker
Arbitrum paid 400 ETH via ImmuneFi to white hat hacker Arbitrum bridge bug was caused by bad initializers in the contract code Another cryptocurrency vulnerability has been uncovered by a so-called wh...
DeFi Market Maker Wintermute Suffers $160 Mln Hack, Hacker Details Revealed
Crypto market maker Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy on Tuesday said the platform has suffered a $160 million hack in DeFi operations. Gaevoy also announced that the centralized finance (CeFi) and over-th...
Hacker Lost 5 Ether On Near Protocol’s Rainbow Bridge
The Crypto Bridges Crypto bridges have grown to be a popular target for bad actors. Not all malevolent attackers, meanwhile, manage to escape with millions of dollars worth of digital assets. Some peo...
Hacker stole $3.3 million from Ethereum ‘vanity addresses’ created with Profanity tool
A hacker drained $3.3 million from multiple Ethereum addresses generated with a tool called Profanity, according to on-chain data from Etherscan. Anonymous security analyst ZachXBT first noticed the e...
Uber suffers cyberattack as hacker gains ‘full access’ to internal systems
In this day and age, hacking attacks on major companies are nothing new, with the most recent victim being Uber Technologies, the mobility as a service (MaaS) provider that allows users to hitch a rid...
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...
Hacker Steals $370K Via Avalanche Flash Loan Arbitrage Attack
Defi News According to CertiK, there were three potential protocols affected. CertiK’s on-chain security software, Skynet, detected assault at 7:26 pm UTC on Tuesday. On Tuesday night, a flash loan at...
MonoX Finance’s Hacker Starts Moving $31M Loot via Sanctioned Tornado Cash
The exploiter behind the hack of DeFi protocol MonoX has moved $2.1 million from the stolen $31 million to the recently sanctioned privacy network, Tornado Cash. Hacker Moves $2.1M According to data o...
Kyber Network Offered 15% of Bounty to Hacker Amid $265K Exploit
Hackers have yet again targeted decentralized finance KyberSwap. The decentralized finance company witnessed a hack of 265,000 USD on September 1st, 2022. KyberSwap was able to stop the hack in two ho...
KyberSwap Ready to Pay a 15% Bounty if Hacker Returns $265K Stolen Crypto Funds – crypto.news
KyberSwap, a renowned multichain DEX (Decentralized Exchange), announced on September 1st that it suffered a frontend attack. The attacker stole crypto worth $265,000. The exchange is willing to pay a...
Hacker Steals $265,000 in User Funds from KyberSwap
KyberSwap announced that $265,000 in user funds were stolen after a hacker exploited the multichain DEX aggregator’s front end. The company confirmed the hacking incident, followed by announcing...
Hacker Tries To Exploit Bridge Protocol
The hackers, however, fail miserably The majority of the DeFi tokens in the top 100 had a mixed week Several tokens traded in red and suffered a loss This previous week, there were a few significant i...
Teenage Hacker Who Stole $35 Million Behind Beeple and Other Hacks?
According to what seems like a mix of investigative work and conspiracy theories, a Twitter user has figured out the prime culprit behind recent attacks on Beeple and other prominent NFT artists. A Tw...
Hacker tries to exploit bridge protocol, fails miserably: Finance Redefined
Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. This past week, there...