The Rainbow Bridge hack over the weekend resulted in funds being restored to users in 31 seconds with no harm done, although the attacker lost 5 Ethereum in the process. Hacker Loses 5 ETH in Failed A...
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Hacker Loses 5 Ether In A Failed Exploit On Near Protocol’s Rainbow Bridge ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Crypto bridges have become a hot target for nefarious actors. However, not all malicious attackers make away with millions in stolen digital assets. ...
Hacker tries to exploit bridge protocol, fails miserably
Cross-chain bridges have increasingly become targeted by malicious entities. However, not all hackers can run away with millions in their exploit attempts. Some end up losing money from their own wall...
How a Hacker Lost His ETH While Attacking Rainbow Bridge
An attacker trying to steal funds from Rainbow Bridge on Saturday was stopped within 31 seconds, losing 5 ETH in the process. Alex Shevchenko – CEO of Aurora Labs – broke down how the protocol mounted...
A Hacker Fails to Perform a Bridge Hack, Losing 5 ETH
Aug 23, 2022 at 12:12 // News On August 22, 2022, an unknown hacker tried to break the NEAR/ETH Rainbow Bridge. However, the hack was blocked, protecting users’ money. It also cost the criminal ...
NEAR Rainbow Bridge Turns Tables On Hacker, Foils Weekend Attack
Aurora Labs CEO Alex Shevchenko revealed on Monday that the NEAR-ETH Rainbow bridge was the target of a hacking attempt over the weekend. However, protocols put in place successfully defended the bri...
Hacker Loses 5 ETH (~$8,000) In Failed Attack on NEAR Rainbow Bridge
Aurora Labs CEO Alex Shevchenko said that on Aug. 22 a hacker lost 5 Ethereum (ETH) in a failed attack on the NEAR/ETH Rainbow Bridge over the weekend. No user funds were lost. Shevchenko said the att...
NEAR Rainbow Bridge defends weekend attack costing hacker 5 ETH
CEO of Aurora Labs, Alex Shevchenko, announced Monday that the NEAR-ETH Rainbow Bridge defended an attack over the weekend resulting in the hacker losing 5ETH. Shevchenko claimed that the attack was “...
Hacker stole from clients making deposits on Bitcoin ATMs
A hacker stole crypto funds from customers making deposits at General Bytes Bitcoin ATM machines, according to an advisory published this week. The hacker modified the crypto settings of two-way machi...
Alleged Russian ransomware hacker extradited from Netherlands to US
A Russian citizen and alleged participant in Ryuk ransomware attacks has been extradited from the Netherlands for trial in the US. Denis Mihaqlovic Dubnikov and his co-conspirators allegedly launder...
Steve Cohen Taps Hacker ‘Acidphreak’ as First Trader for Crypto Startup
Cohen’s new crypto-focused entity, which is still in its early innings, is dubbed “On-Chain Investments” The endeavor builds on his widespread venture capital-style, having backed crypto startups pers...
North Korea is the new realm of crypto hackers
In a report related to crypto hacking maneuvers, Chainalysis has shed new light on the criminal phenomenon by noting that most hacking attacks on this asset come from the same geographic area as North...
Hacker Prints 1.2B AUSD On Acala Network, AUSD Depegs After The Exploit – crypto.news
This year has been rough for stablecoins as several stablecoins have depegged from the USD. On August 14th, the AUSD (Polkadot-based stablecoin) of Acala Network dropped below $1. Reports revealed tha...
Acala Network aUSD Depegs by 99% as Hacker Issues Over 1 Billion Tokens
Acala Network became the latest Defi network to suffer an exploit after hackers breached the network and issued 1.2 billion aUSD tokens. The Polkadot-based network issues aUSD as its native stablecoin...
Binance seizes $450,000 deposited by the Curve hacker
Changpeng Zhao, Binance CEO, claimed that his team had recovered a significant amount of the money taken by Curve’s front-end exploit on Tuesday. Zhao provided a status report on Twitter and rev...
Curve fixed the bug caused by a hacker attack
According to the team’s statement on Twitter, it appears that the bug found in the Curve Finance protocol was fixed after a hacker attack. Updates should have propagated for https://t.co/vOeMYOTq0l ev...
How Solana Vigilantes Battled Back Against the Wallet Hacker
In brief Thousands of Solana wallets were drained in a widespread hack that’s now being blamed on an exploit with the Slope mobile wallet. White hat hackers spammed “malformed” transactions to slow th...
Hacker Returns $9 Million Worth of Stolen Funds Off the Nomad Bridge
4 hours ago | 2 mins read Altcoin News Nomad disclosed that it is using a leading chain analysis service to track funds. More than $1 billion has already been stolen from bridges in 2022 as per report...
Hacker Returns $9M to Nomad After Draining Over $190M
Nomad exploit was one of the biggest cryptocurrency hacks in history. As a result, over $190 million worth of funds were drained. It was branded as “one of the most chaotic hacks that Web3 has ever se...
Hackers steal $ 200 million from the Nomad bridge
Yet another exploit has been found by hackers, this time draining nearly $200 million from the cross-chain bridge Nomad. Nomad bridge suffers hacker attack Nomad is a cross-chain bridge solution that ...
Nirvana Attack Made ANA and NIRV Plunge Over 80%—Protocol Urged Hacker to Return Funds
Broader crypto market is showing uptick while everything is not well for Nirvana Finance. Nirvana Finance requested the hacker to return the stolen funds back. On July 28, Solana based def...
Hacker attack on the Italian Revenue Agency
Just yesterday, the Italian Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) suffered a cyber attack and hackers demanded a ransom of 5 million euros. Hackers give 5 days to the Italian Revenue Agency It seems...
Hacker pockets $1.1 million after stealing from music streaming protocol Audius
Decentralized music streaming protocol Audius reported that a hacker stole funds from its community treasury using a malicious governance vote. According to security firm CertiK, the hacker successfu...
Hacker Steals $1.1m Worth Crypto from Music Streaming Protocol Audius
Audius, a decentralized music streaming protocol, announced on Sunday that a hacker stole funds worth $1.1 million from its platform’s decentralized governance system using a Malicious Governance Vote...
Hacker drains $1.08M from Audius following passing of malicious proposal
Proposals in crypto help communities make consensus-based decisions. However, for decentralized music platform Auduis, the passing of a malicious governance proposal resulted in the transfer of tokens...
A hacker stole $375,000 from users of Premint NFT platform
On Sunday, a hacker compromised the official website of an NFT whitelisting platform called Premint to steal $375,000 worth of NFTs. According to security firm CertiK, a black hat hacker injected a ma...
How A Hacker Stole The Show On Former CEO Jack Dorsey’s Resignation Day
A hacker on former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s resignation day stole the show by adding Ethereum address to Twitter tips button. Twitter tip feature now caters to both iOS and android users. Jack ...
Premint hacked: Hacker steals ~$375k from users
Ibiam Wayas Ibiam is an optimistic crypto journalist. Five years from now, he sees himself establishing a unique crypto media outlet that will breach the gap between the crypto world and the general p...
Hacker drains $1.4 million worth of ETH from NFT lender Omni
Omni, a non-fungible token (NFT) money market platform, was drained of about 1,300 ETH ($1.43 million) in a flash loan reentrancy attack on Sunday, according to PeckShield. Omni allows users to stake ...
Crema Finance Reaches Agreement with Hacker
Hack attacks on DeFi protocols are significantly on the rise and Crema Finance might be the latest victim of their flash loan attack tactic. It appears that decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Crema...
Crema Finance Retrieves Stolen Funds After Negotiation With Hacker
9 hours ago | 2 mins read Defi News The DeFi project’s staff said it had received an on-chain response from the hacker. The firm submitted its modified coding to the blockchain security company Slowmi...