On the 15th of June, several companies providing crypto wallets – as well as the cybersec firm responsible for finding exploits – announced the existence and subsequent patching of a security issue af...
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Intel And AMD May Have Access To Cryptographic Keys Vulnerability In The Heartbleed Chip
Both Intel and AMD have CPUs that are impacted. These include AMD Ryzen CPUs desktop and laptop models from the Zen 2 and Zen 3 microarchitectures, as well as Intel Core desktop and laptop models from...
Hackers can steal crypto keys on Intel, AMD CPUs via ‘Hertzbleed’ vulnerability
? Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! New research shows that malicious players can steal cryptographic keys on Intel and AMD processors using a side-channel vulner...
Crypto Keys Could be Compromised by ‘Hertzbleed’ Chip Vulnerability
Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Intel and AMD central processing units (CPUs) that could be used by malicious actors to access cryptographic keys. According to researchers at the Univer...
Caution: Crypto holders with Windows face a new critical MS vulnerability
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed a zero-day vulnerability dubbed Follina in Microsoft Office that can affect a computer using malicious Word documents. In a Twitter thread, anti-phishing extens...
Top US Banking Regulator Says Tether (USDT) May Have Similar Vulnerability to TerraUSD (UST) Without Regulation
The head of a key US banking regulatory agency says Tether (USDT), a stablecoin designed to be pegged to the US dollar, may not be a safe place for crypto investors to park their capital. Earlier this...
Critical vulnerability detected on the Rarible NFT marketplace
Researchers at Check Point have revealed a critical vulnerability in the Rarible NFT marketplace. Rarible is one of the largest NFT marketplaces, and it has more than two million monthly users. CPR re...
Cyber Security Firm Discovers Critical Vulnerability on NFT Marketplace Rarible
Check Point, the American-Israeli multinational that provides hardware and software products for IT security, has revealed identifying a security flaw in the popular NFT marketplace Rarible, which boa...
Rarible NFT Marketplace Vulnerability Gets Exposed by Check Point – crypto.news
Researchers at cyber security software firm Check Point have identified a vulnerability in the Rarible NFT marketplace. Hundreds of thousands of its roughly two million active monthly users would have...
OpenZeppelin Discovers $15 Billion Rug Pull Vulnerability In Convex Finance
A routine security audit turned into a potential nightmare for Convex Finance as OpenZeppelin’s security team discovered a vulnerability during a security review of the Convex Finance protocol. The b...
Over 50% Crypto Investors Backup Security Keys by Paper Wallets, Threatening its Vulnerability
New research conducted by Unstoppable Domains, Efani, and NGRAVE suggests that more than half of crypto investors, taking 54% of the respondents, store their security keys on a paper wallet amid inten...
Minswap Handles a Smart Contract Vulnerability during Recent Maintenance – crypto.news
On March 22, Minswap announced on Twitter that its system would be undergoing a maintenance session to improve user experience. Additionally, it mentioned on March 25 about a smart contract vulnerabil...
Cardano-Based DEX MinSwap Fixes Vulnerability That Could Have Cost Millions
A Cardano-based decentralized exchange, Minswap, has revealed that it has completed a maintenance mode which has helped the protocol fix a major vulnerability that could have led to a huge amount of l...
Cardano-Based Minswap DEX Exits Maintenance Mode After Patching Critical Vulnerability
Cardano DEX Minswap has come out of maintenance mode after the team fixed a critical vulnerability. The exploit could have resulted in a large amount of liquidity being drained. Minswap, a multi-pool ...
Convex Finance Forced to Redeploy Smart Contract Due to Vulnerability
Convex Finance was forced to unlock its vote locked CVX tokens after getting to know of a bug in the smart contract. According to the team, this was a non-critical bug that didn’t affect users’ funds ...
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 ...
Coinbase and the story of the latest ‘market-nuking’ vulnerability
If you were a white hat hacker and you had to choose between exploiting a “potentially market-nuking” vulnerability and accepting a $250,000 bug bounty, what would you pick? This month, one white hat ...
Cardano incentivizes “hackers” to find its network vulnerability
In a bid to further secure its network from bad actors, smart contract-enabled blockchain, Cardano has revealed that it is doubling the bug bounty for whoever discovers and reports any vulnerability o...
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...
One of Largest Ethereum Layer 2s Faces Critical Vulnerability, But Funds Are Safe
Arman Shirinyan The team needed only a few hours to fix the crucial vulnerability Optimism, one of the largest Layer 2 solutions for Ethereum, has fixed a critical vulnerability within hours of confir...
OpenSea Fixes Vulnerability, But Users Are Still Losing NFTs To Hackers
The OpenSea vulnerability which analysts first got wind of a few days ago appears to have not been fixed. According to new data, OpenSea users are still losing their pieces to hackers. Another eight N...
OpenSea Vulnerability Leads to Exploit of Numerous NFTs, Hacker Makes 150 ETH
Arman Shirinyan Another user takes advantage of a vulnerability on the platform Contents Digital robbery Two vulnerabilities in one week Another exploit on the biggest Ethereum NFT marketplace appears...
Multichain vulnerability put a billion dollars at risk, says security firm
The Multichain bug that has led to the theft of $2 million in crypto (so far) could have been “enormous,” according to the company that disclosed the vulnerability last week. Blockchain security firm ...
As users gather information about alleged vulnerability exploit, OpenSea stays silent
A reported vulnerability on the NFT Marketplace OpenSea means a user may have made profits in the hundreds of Ether. Here’s what you need to know. Don’t ape this PeckShield Alert shared the details of...
OpenSea Faces Front-End Vulnerability, User Makes 347 ETH Exploiting It
Arman Shirinyan OpenSea faces a front-end vulnerability due to issues with API Contents Buy high, sell low Rough week for NFTs The leading blockchain security firm PeckShield has stated that the large...