The White Hat Hackers (Ethical Hackers) returned $9 million after the Nomad bridge exploits of approx $200 million. The hack was dated August 1, which aims at almost $200 million in WETH and WBTC toke...
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White Hat Hackers Return $9M Following $200M Nomad Bridge Exploit
According to a PeckShield report, white hat hackers have returned around $9 million of stolen Nomad bridge crypto tokens, a day after its $200 million exploit. Be[In]Crypto had reported that the attac...
Cryptocurrency Project Losses from Black Hat Hackers Increased 1.5 Times in Second Quarter of 2022
Jul 12, 2022 at 12:02 // News Black Hat hackers are actively exploiting the cryptocurrency industry and its vulnerabilities. In the second quarter of 2022, the total loss of crypto projects due to hac...
Trump Too Old For Presidency, Should ‘Hang Up His Hat & Sail Into The Sunset’
Topline Former President Donald Trump is too old for another term in the White House and should “hang up his hat & sail into the sunset,” tech billionaire Elon Musk tweeted on Monday, hitting back...
White Hat Gets $630k for Averting Potential $25M Bug on Solana-based Port Finance
Port Finance, a Solana-based lending protocol, has paid out a $630,000 bounty to a white hat hacker who helped prevent a potential $25 million vulnerability from the platform, cybersecurity firm Halbo...
White hat hacker attempts to recover ‘millions’ in lost Bitcoin, finds only $105
Joe Grand, a computer engineer and hardware hacker known by many for recovering crypto from hard-to-reach places, spent hours breaking into a phone only to find a fraction of a Bitcoin. In a YouTube v...
Aurora Pays Out $6M Bug Bounty to White Hat Hacker
Key Takeaways Aurora has paid out a $6 million bug bounty to a white hat hacker who warned it of a possible $330 million exploit. ImmuneFi, which coordinated the bounty and payout, says that the amoun...
Magic Hat Studio Launches Play-To-Earn Game, Dragon Master
Advertisement     Magic Hat Studio is elated to announce the launch of its new game, Dragon Master, which combines classic gameplay with play-to-earn (P2E) concepts. A...
Coinbase criticized over $250,000 bounty paid to white hat
Coinbase just paid out its largest bug bounty ever to a white hat hacker. However, the amount paid has created debate across the cryptocurrency community, with some saying that it was too low, given t...
Why White Hat Hackers Are Vital to the Crypto Ecosystem
Even if the Optimism team had noticed and temporarily paused bridge transactions via the sequencer during a theoretical attack, an attacker could have still wreaked havoc on layer 2 decentralized fina...
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...
Is it safe to contact white hat hackers to restore your lost Bitcoin?
A BBC article reports that white hat hackers helped a Bitcoin early adopter access her locked wallet. Although the story ended on a happy note, others in a similar situation could be prompted to follo...
Grey Hat Hacker promises to return 80% Of Stolen money
A hacker who stole approximately $200,000 is proposing to repay the majority of the stolen assets. The hacker, who is now known as a grey hat hacker, was able to successfully steal $200,000 from one o...
Grey Hat Hacker Agrees To Return 80% Of Funds Stolen In Multichain Exploit
Cross-chain DeFi platform Multichain has been the latest in what is now a long line of DeFi protocols being exploited. This time around, the attackers were able to steal user funds from the platform b...
Is Nayib Bukele Really A Bitcoin White Hat?
President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has attempted to erode the free speech rights of the citizens in the Central American country. As per the report, Pegasus, a spyware software that has been in c...