Cashio Hacker Asks Victims To âApplyâ For Refunds After $52M Heist
This may be the strangest DeFi hack of all.
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Phishing Exploit Pinches 60 NFTs From Top Collector Victim Publishes Hacker's Wallet to Retrieve Looted Works
Victim Publishes Hacker's Wallet to Retrieve Looted Works
The hack made off with CloneX and Azuki works.
DEX Takes Aim at Protecting Blockchains from Manipulation and ‘Slippage’
A new offering seeks to protect blockchains from manipulation.
Pseudonymity is a meme
Alright ya beautiful lovelies, CryptoFirstNewsBadger here filling in for yer regular old presenter. And I know youâre thinking you look just like him. You sound just like him and you probably saw me getting me groceries at tâsame superstore in tâsame town at tâsame time. But I assure you I am someone completely different and …
‘Believe It!’ How a Manga-Loving Geek Exposed the Scam Targeting Naruto NFTs
Journalist Dan Kahan loves manga. When he saw the famous Naruto series was being turned into NFTs he uncovered a new type of copyright fraud.
Vitalik Sounds Alarm on Security of Cross-chain Bridges
Vitalik Buterin weighed in with concerns on the security of cross-chain bridges.
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
Oh &#%!@… Seriously!? Top DeFi Debacles of 2021
There were many WTF moments in DeFi this year. Here’s some choice debacles.
Aave Set to Disable Borrowing on xSushi and DPI Citing Potential Exploit
Aave token holders are voting to patch a vulnerability to DeFiâs biggest protocol by assets locked.
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 …
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Bug in Leading Ethereum Node Software Has Caused the Chain to Fork
A bug in outdated versions of the leading Ethereum client for node operators, Geth, is causing forks on the chain, according to research by the Block. According to The Block, this could enable double spends on the worldâs second-largest blockchain by market capitalization. Ethereum security lead Martin Holst Swende tweeted, âFortunately, most miners were already …
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Poly Network Hacked For Over $600M In Biggest DeFi Exploit Ever
At 6am ET on August 10, over half a billion dollars worth of crypto assets were stolen from Poly Network, a cross-chain protocol that facilitates token swaps across multiple blockchains including Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain and Polygon. With the total drained at $600M, this is the biggest DeFi hack in history, dwarfing the $59M EasyFi …
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Upgrade Opens ThorChain to $4.9M Exploit
ThorChain, a popular decentralized exchange that enables native token swaps across different blockchains, was exploited yesterday to the tune of $4.9M. According to the project, the exploit was made possible by a recent upgrade to the protocolâs âBifrostâ router that connects ThorChain to Ethereum. The change allowed the attacker to trick the router using a …
You Stole $37M, Now What? The $CREAM $ALPHA Exploit Unpacked
Last weekend Alpha Finance was hacked to the tune of $37m but this was a hack so specific and well-informed it was immediately assumed to have been an inside job. Have you ever wondered what happens when a hack goes down, or how a perpetrator can successfully escape with the money?
DeFi Dre and the Invisible Hacked Pickles
Another week, another hack… what have we learned this time?
Flash Loans, and Attacks – Explained
After five attacks and millions of dollars lost due to an exploit, this week we’re diving deep into the mechanism behind what made this possible: Flash Loans. Some called it a magnificent attack, some called it art. But there are other important questions to be asked: were the flash loan attack prevention, fake token attack …
