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Duelbits Co-Founder Reports $7 Million Hack as Casino Stays Offline

Duelbits Co-Founder Reports $7 Million Hack as Casino Stays Offline

The platform says customer balances are unchanged and withdrawals will resume when it reopens, while onchain records show funds consolidated into ETH.

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Duelbits Co-Founder Reports $7 Million Hack as Casino Stays Offline

Duelbits Co-Founder Reports $7 Million Hack as Casino Stays Offline

The platform says customer balances are unchanged and withdrawals will resume when it reopens, while onchain records show funds consolidated into ETH.
Bitget Raises Hack Estimate To $387.5 Million As Token Accounting Widens

Bitget Raises Hack Estimate To $387.5 Million As Token Accounting Widens

XRP and ether dominate the identified outflows. Withdrawals remain paused as the exchange adds Zcash and TRON assets to its accounting.
Legacy Magic Eden Approvals Exploited as White Hats Rescue NFTs

Legacy Magic Eden Approvals Exploited as White Hats Rescue NFTs

Yuga Labs’ 0xQuit says 23,155 NFTs worth more than $5.7 million were secured. Holders still need to revoke the vulnerable contracts’ NFT and token approvals.
Payy Halts Network After $1.92 Million USDC Drain

Payy Halts Network After $1.92 Million USDC Drain

The initial proceeds were converted into about 683 ETH, with most then sent to three wallets. Payy has paused deposits, withdrawals and card payments.
Cosmos Hub Restarts; 1.23 Million ATOM Moved From Neutron Attacker Wallet

Cosmos Hub Restarts; 1.23 Million ATOM Moved From Neutron Attacker Wallet

The Hub produced no blocks for 24 hours and 48 minutes. The attacker bought voting power for 20,199 USDC and staked it 12 minutes before an expedited Neutron proposal closed.
MEV Bot Front-Runs $7.8 Million rsETH Exploit on Ethereum

MEV Bot Front-Runs $7.8 Million rsETH Exploit on Ethereum

Yoink sent 2,882.37 rsETH to one address after its transaction beat the original attack into the same Ethereum block.
Cronos Restarts Chain by Rolling State Back to Before the Tectonic Exploit

Cronos Restarts Chain by Rolling State Back to Before the Tectonic Exploit

Validators discarded almost 11,000 blocks, erasing the attacker's Cronos balances along with close to two hours of everyone else's transactions. The $6.29 million already bridged to Ethereum is beyond the rollback's reach.
Avici Says 1,685 Users Lost $500,859 In Rain Card Contract Exploit

Avici Says 1,685 Users Lost $500,859 In Rain Card Contract Exploit

Card issuer Rain says an attacker used an outdated version of its Solana contract, which a small number of programs were running. Both companies say affected users will be made whole.
The Sandbox Pledges 1:1 SAND Repayment After Bridge Exploit

The Sandbox Pledges 1:1 SAND Repayment After Bridge Exploit

Treasury-funded compensation will use pre-incident balances on Base and BNB Chain without increasing SAND’s fixed 3 billion maximum supply.
Moonwell Loses $8.7 Million To MAMO Price Manipulation On Base

Moonwell Loses $8.7 Million To MAMO Price Manipulation On Base

The lending protocol cut borrow caps on every Base core market to 1 wei after an attacker inflated the price of a thinly traded collateral token and borrowed against it.