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Nalezeno "White Hat Hacker": 18

Kraken Calls Security Research Firm’s Demands ‘Criminal’; Certik Slams Threats Against Its Employees

19.6.2024
Kraken has accused an unnamed security research firm of stealing $3 million from its treasury and attempting to extort more money. Nick Percoco said so-called white hat hackers failed to fully disclose the bug transaction details and have not made arrangements to return the stolen funds. White...

BNB Chain faces $80K Bitcoin exploit. White hat hacker or ongoing exploit?

28.5.2024
Certain on-chain signs point to a potential white hat, or ethical hacker, looking for blockchain vulnerabilities

Bitcoin bridge XLink resurrection underway post $10M hack

17.5.2024
XLink faced a security breach involving almost $10 million, with $4.3 million recovered thanks to a friendly neighborhood whitehat hacker

White Hat Hacker Team SEAL Launches Threat-Sharing Platform for Crypto

17.4.2024
The Security Alliance (SEAL), a white-hat hacker collective, introduces SEAL ISAC – a platform designed to bolster crypto security through collaborative threat intelligence sharing. SEAL ISAC offers resources, facilitates expert connections, and empowers the crypto community to combat cyberattacks....

White Hat Hacker Recovers $5.4 Million For DeFi Platform Curve Finance Amid Recent Exploit

31.7.2023
An ethical hacker has recovered 2,879 ETH worth around $5.4 million for the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance amid its recent hack losing over $47 million. On July 30, the same day of the hack, it was reported that an ethical hacker seized some assets by front-running...

Allbridge exploiter returns most of the $573K stolen in attack

4.4.2023
An exploit resulted in around $573,000 in crypto looted from Allbridge, but the hacker has now seemingly accepted the offer of a “white hat bounty.”

Allbridge offers bounty to exploiter who stole $570K in flashloan attack

3.4.2023
Allbridge offered a hacker who pilfered $573,000 from its platform a chance to come forward as a white hat and forgo any legal ramifications

DeFi lender Tender.fi suffers exploit, white hat hacker suspected

7.3.2023
DeFi lending platform Tender.fi sees $1.59 million of assets drained by alleged white hat hacker taking advantage of a misconfigured oracle

White hat hacker attempts to recover 'millions' in lost Bitcoin, finds only $105

24.6.2022
“We didn’t make money, but we definitely made new friends," said Lavar Sanders, who originally purchased the Bitcoin in 2016

$250K bounty 'not too low to be insulting,' says Coinbase white hat hacker

21.2.2022
The white-hat hacker responsible for discovering a crisis-level flaw in Coinbase API said the $250K bounty was not "too low."

iOS jailbreak dev wins $2M bounty for finding critical Optimism bug

11.2.2022
Ethereum scaling startup Optimism disclosed a “critical bug” fix in the project’s Geth fork that would have allowed malicious hackers to create infinite ETH

Immunefi to bolster DeFi security service with new funds

26.10.2021
The platform has paid out more than $7.5 million in bug bounties since inception in December 2020

White hat hacker paid DeFi’s largest reported bounty fee

30.9.2021
Cointelegraph spoke to the hacker for insights on the timeline of events, as well as the wider implications of bounty programs on DeFi's security landscape

White Hat Hacker Reveals High-Risk Vulnerability on SushiSwap

23.9.2021
A white-hat hacker recently took the DeFi sector by storm after allegedly speaking about high-risk vulnerabilities on SushiSwap. According to the anonymous hacker, the vulnerabilities can risk user funds worth billions of dollars. SushiSwap developers could not secretly fix the issue, resulting...