Crypto whitehat hackers are mostly interested in the Ethereum blockchain. That’s according to a breakdown of the ethical hacker ecosystem compiled by web3-focused bug bounty platform Immunefi in...
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Top crypto ransomware attacks extorted $69 million in bitcoin: Immunefi
Crypto ransomware payments have generated more than $69.3 million from the top 10 attacks since 2020. The $40 million paid in bitcoin by the Chicago-based insurance company CNA Financial represents 57...
Crypto White Hat Platform Immunefi Banned 15 ChatGPT-Generated Bug Reports. Here’s Why
“There’s a difference between something like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT. With the former, you are driving the process and the role of Copilot is offering useful suggestions in context, which you accep...
DeFi Bounty Platform Immunefi Bans Generative AI Bug Reports
Smart contract bug bounty platform Immunefi banned 15 people for allegedly submitting bug reports created by the generative artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. The whitehat hacker bounty platform in...
Boba Network (BOBA) Launches Multi-Blockchain Bug Bounty Campaign with Immunefi
Vladislav Sopov Boba Network (BOBA) enthusiasts can get up to $1 million in USD Coin (USDC) for unveling bugs in its design Contents Boba Network’s (BOBA) bug bounty with Immunefi kicks off Pion...
Boba Network Partners With Immunefi to Launch Bug Bounty Program
54 mins ago | 2 mins read Blockchain News Together with Immunefi, the leading bug bounty platform for blockchain, Boba Network will launch a bug bounty program. This is being done on its L2 instances,...
Crypto Has a Loss of $3.9 Billion in 2022; Reports Immunefi
Immunefi reported that the crypto industry has a loss of $3.9 billion in 2022. The major cause of the loss is the hacks, constituting 95.6%. The report also suggests that the most targeted chains in 2...
Crypto losses in 2022 total $3.9 billion, Immunefi report says
The crypto industry as a whole lost $3.9 billion in 2022, according to a new report from bug bounty platform Immunefi. Of those, only 5.2% were recovered, totaling around $204.2 million across ...
Immunefi researcher saves $200 million from potential theft on three Polkadot parachains
A security researcher discovered a software vulnerability that could have been exploited to steal as much as $200 million from three Ethereum-compatible parachains on Polkadot — Moonbeam, Astar Networ...
Immunefi says it has facilitated $66M in bug bounty payouts to whitehats since inception
According to a new report released on Dec. 21, blockchain security firm Immunefi said that it has processed more than $65,918,994 crypto bounties paid to ethical hackers over 1,248 reports since its i...
Ethical crypto hackers win $52 million in bug bounties via Immunefi in 2022
Immunefi, a crypto-focused bug bounty platform, paid over $52 million to ethical hackers for finding bugs in blockchain and cryptocurrency apps in 2022, a year that has seen the value of crypto hacks ...
Algorand foundation & Algorand Inc. partners with Immunefi
The Algorand Inc. and Algorand Foundation yesterday launched a series of bounties hosted on Immunefi. Immunefi is a leading bug bounty and security service platform for Web3. The bounty series of the ...
Future of Web3 security with Immunefi and Brave CEOs: The Bug House 2022
Celebrating the myriads of accomplishments earned by the crypto ecosystem, Immunefi, Electric Capital, Bitscale Capital and MA Family together hosted The Bug House — a party for bringing together the ...
Immunefi launches scoring system for Web3’s elite white hats
Bug bounty platform Immunefi has released its Whitehat Leaderboard — a scoring system that showcases the top 20 most elite white hats in Web3. The rank will measure a given white hat’s skills an...
ImmuneFi Launches Whitehat Leaderboard to Incentivize Web3 Hackers
ImmuneFi, one of the most notable Web3 bug bounty protocols has announced the launch of a new Leaderboard feature for ethical hackers in Web3. As announced by the outfit, the Leaderboard will pull 20...
ApeCoin DAO approves $4.4 million bug bounty program on Immunefi
The ApeCoin DAO has voted to approve a $4.4 million bug bounty program with ethical hacking platform Immunefi, aiming to guard its upcoming token staking mechanism from hacks. ApeCoin is a dece...
Web3 ecosystem lost over $428M to hacks, scams in Q3 – Immunefi
The web3 ecosystem lost over $428.7 million to 39 exploits in the third quarter — down 62.9% compared to over $1 billion lost in the same period of 2021. The Nomad Bridge and Wintermute hacks account ...
Blockchain Builders Need Bug Bounty Programs: Immunefi Engineer
“Heads down, time to build,” is a popular slogan used by blockchain builders when the market is down. Immunefi, a bug bounty platform that offers rewards for finding security holes in bloc...
DeFi Bug Bounty Platform Immunefi Raises $24M in Series A
Immunefi, a popular bug bounty system for smart contracts and decentralized finance (DeFi) projects, announced it has raised a $24 million Series A funding round led by Framework Ventures. Other parti...
Web3 bug bounty platform Immunefi raises $24 million in Series A funding
Immunefi, a platform that helps web3 projects launch bug bounty programs and whitehat hackers earn money, has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round amid increasing crypto hacks. Framework Ven...
Framework Makes its Largest Single Bet Yet on Immunefi
Most recently Immunefi facilitated a 400 ETH transaction from Arbitrum to a white hacker Investors that participated in the round include Electric Capital, Polygon Ventures and Samsung Next Immunefi, ...
DeFi Exploits Top $1.8B YTD, Though Security ‘Getting Better’ Immunefi Says
DeFi hacks totaled more than $1.2 billion for the first quarter of this year alone, significantly more than Q1 2021, according to recent data While the DeFi sector’s security appears bleak, Immunefi’s...
Crypto Exploits Hit $670M Q2 2022: ImmuneFi Report
Key Takeaways A new report from ImmuneFi claims that crypto protocols lost over $670 million in Q2 2022. The number of hacks came in at double the previous quarter, but the total funds lost saw a decr...
Aurora pays $6M bug bounty to ethical security hacker through Immunefi
On Tuesday, Ethereum (ETH) bridging and scaling solution Aurora announced it had paid out a $6 million bounty to ethical security hacker pwning.eth, who discovered a critical vulnerability in the Auro...
MakerDAO Launches Record $10M Bug Bounty Program On Immunefi
MakerDAO, the decentralized organization (DAO) behind the DAI stablecoin, is rolling out a bug bounty program with Immunefi, the leading crypto security services platform—promising a record payout of ...
ImmuneFi report $10B in DeFi hacks and losses across 2021
Decentralized finance, or DeFi, security platform and bug bounty service ImmuneFi published an official report on Thursday, which calculated the total volume of losses in the cryptocurrency markets in...
OlympusDAO Rolls Out $3.3M Bug Bounty Program With DeFi Security Platform Immunefi
Security services platform Immunefi is now offering a new bug bounty program for OlympusDAO, a hotly-discussed decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol underpinning a cryptocurrency called OHM. OHM is ma...