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NFT Scams – How To Avoid Them
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NFT Scams – How To Avoid Them

In this tutorial we demonstrate a number of different methods to be wary of NFT scams.
Rug-Pullers and Black-Hats Ran Wild in 2021 With $2.2B Lost to Theft: Report
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Rug-Pullers and Black-Hats Ran Wild in 2021 With $2.2B Lost to Theft: Report

Exploiters, rug-pullers and other rogues ran wild in 2021 and stole $2.2B in DeFi: Report
DeFi Insurer Nexus Mutual Weighs Whether to Pay Out on BadgerDAO Hack
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DeFi Insurer Nexus Mutual Weighs Whether to Pay Out on BadgerDAO Hack

Controversy has erupted in the wake of the BadgerDAO hack as insurer Nexus Mutual is waiting for a postmortem before making payouts.
Aave Set to Disable Borrowing on xSushi and DPI Citing Potential Exploit
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Aave Set to Disable Borrowing on xSushi and DPI Citing Potential Exploit

Aave token holders are voting to patch a vulnerability to DeFi’s biggest protocol by assets locked.
Anubis DAO Descends Into the Underworld After $60M Exploit
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Anubis DAO Descends Into the Underworld After $60M Exploit

Anubis DAO, a recently launched fork of Olympus DAO, is engulfed in chaos after 13.6K ETH ($60M) was drained from the protocol today.
CREAM Finance Exploited for $130M in DeFi’s Third-Largest Hack
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CREAM Finance Exploited for $130M in DeFi’s Third-Largest Hack

DeFi lending protocol CREAM Finance has been exploited for over $100M, according to data compiled by security firm Peckshield. 
Victims of $30M Parity Wallet Hack Offer Attacker $60M 'Bounty'
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Victims of $30M Parity Wallet Hack Offer Attacker $60M 'Bounty'

The victims of a 2017 hack - Aeternity, Edgeless, and Swarm City -have offered a bug bounty to recover their stolen ETH.
Inside the Hunt for the Jay Pegs Auto Mart Thief and 865 ETH
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Inside the Hunt for the Jay Pegs Auto Mart Thief and 865 ETH

It took the team at Jay Pegs Auto Mart basically zero time to identify and find the hacker responsible for stealing the proceeds from their auction of DONA tokens on SushiSwap’s MISO platform Thursday night. “It only took us five minutes to figure out who he was,” BasedMoneyGod, a salesman at Jay Pegs told The…
CREAM Finance Attack Leads to $23 Million Loss in AMP and ETH
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CREAM Finance Attack Leads to $23 Million Loss in AMP and ETH

New token standards introduce complexity that DeFi applications are still learning how to grapple with. Prime example: Money market CREAM Finance was hit with a reentrancy attack on Aug. 30 that allowed attackers to drain $22.8 million in Flexa’s AMP token and $4.2 million worth of ETH (based on market prices in mid-morning trading Monday).…
Hackers Wanted: $1M  Bounties Entice White Hats to Hunt for DeFi Bugs
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Hackers Wanted: $1M Bounties Entice White Hats to Hunt for DeFi Bugs

Should I just steal the money? There’s a vulnerability in the code… Of a DeFi protocol with $3B in TVL. I was just looking at the open-source code for fun. But now, it’s serious. There’s a bug bounty, a reward that pays out $10K to anyone who finds a major weakness. But exploiting this vulnerability…