Hacks
DeFi News
Hackers Steal $1M From Tornado Cash, Then Propose to Fix Governance Takeover
Malicious Governance Takeover Allowed Tornado Cash Hacker To Steal $1M
Exploits
'Counter-Exploit' Claws Back $202M From Hacker
U.K. Court Orders Oasis.app to Retrieve Stolen Assets from DeFi Heist
Byte
Hackers Use 'Emergency Withdraw' Flaw to Raid Platypus
ZachXBT Identifies Hacker After Attack Erases Half the Value in USP Stablecoin
Op-ed
Machine Learning Best Way to Defend Web3 From Exploits
Bedeviled by Hacks and Exploits Web3 Should Tap ML to Protect Its Turf — Here's How
DeFi News
FTX Hacker Offloads Over $59M of ETH and Sells for BTC
0x59 still has over 200,735 ETH, worth around $236M, in its wallet.
FTX Crisis
FTX Hacked for at Least $650M in Mega-Heist Friday Night
Hackers drained hundreds of millions of dollars from insolvent crypto exchange FTX Friday night, just hours after it declared bankruptcy, in one of the largest heists in crypto history.
Exploits
Deribit Freezes Withdrawals and Deposits After $28M Exploit
Exploiters Rip Off Hot Wallets at Exchange
Byte
Hacker Pockets $677,000 and Free Pass to Settle TransitFinance Exploit
Smart Contract Bug Opened Up Swap Aggregator to $29M Hack
Dive
Tornado Sanctions Test Resilience of DeFi Privacy Community
Privacy Mavens Tout ZK-Proofs as Solution for Users and States
Dive
Inside Solana's 'Textbook' Response to Exploit
Crisis Management Becomes a Key Exercise as Crypto Exploits Mount
Dive
Nomad 'Crowd-Looting' Triggers Exodus From Other Blockchains
Latest Hack Further Exposes Vulnerabilities in Bridge Protocols
DeFi News
North Korea’s Lazarus Group Linked to $100M Harmony Bridge Hack
Cross-Chain Bridges Prime Targets for Exploits
Dive
Spate of Exploits Snares Rari Capital and Saddle Finance for $90M
Escalation of Malicious Attacks Shows No Sign of Abating
Byte
Cashio Hacker Asks Victims To ‘Apply’ For Refunds After $52M Heist
This may be the strangest DeFi hack of all.
DeFi Tutorials
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DeFi News
Jump Crypto Replaces Over $320M of Wormhole Wrapped ETH in DeFi Bailout
Wormhole, a bridge which facilitates asset transfers across seven different blockchain, got hacked on Feb. 2 to the tune of over $320M as a hacker minted 120,000 worth of a version of wrapped Ethereum on Solana. One day later, the funds are back.
DeFi News
Questions Swirl as Solana Loses a Fifth of its Value in Seven Days
Solana, a DeFi darling that vaulted into the fifth most valuable cryptocurrency, has taken the biggest hit of major tokens in the last seven days.