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Harmony hacker sends stolen funds to Tornado Cash mixer
28.6.2022
The exploiter seems to have rejected the Harmony team’s bounty offer of $1 million to return the $100 million stolen from the Horizon Bridge token bridge
Decentralized Finance Crypto Exchange Uniswap Starts Blocking Addresses Linked To ‘Blocked Activities’
26.4.2022
Uniswap, one of the main decentralized finance exchanges in the cryptocurrency world, is now taking measures to ensure illegal funds cannot be transacted using its platform. The company has already started blocking addresses linked to “blocked activities” and will apply a filter with...
US Treasury’s OFAC Adds 3 ETH Addresses Linked to North Korean Cybercrime Group to SDN List
24.4.2022
The Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) has added three ethereum addresses to its Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons List (SDN). OFAC alleges the ether addresses are controlled by the Lazarus Group, a cybercrime group that is associated with North Korea. Lazarus Group Behind Axie...
Lazarus Gets Banned by Tornado Cash for Hacking $600 Million From Axie Infinity’s Ronin Bridge
19.4.2022
Tornado Cash is a decentralized protocol that allows users to have a private Ethereum transaction on the network. Tornado Cash breaks the on-chain link between the source address and the destination address to keep transactions private. A smart contract is deployed to execute the private...
ETH Mixer Tornado Cash Reveals Blocking OFAC Sanctioned Ethereum Addresses via Chainalysis Oracle Contract
16.4.2022
According to the project’s official Twitter account, Tornado Cash, the ethereum mixing service that allows participants to shuffle ether, is blocking flagged ethereum addresses listed on the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons...
Tornado Cash says it's using Chainalysis oracles to block access from OPAC sanctioned addresses
15.4.2022
Many DeFi exploits in the past have been linked to the popular crypto-mixing protocol
Tornado Cash Adds Chainalysis Tool for Blocking OFAC-Sanctioned Wallets From Dapp
15.4.2022
The blockade only applies to the Tornado Cash front-end, not the underlying smart contract, one of the protocol's founders later tweeted
Ronin Exploiter Moved 21,000 Ether to Tornado Cash in Past Week
13.4.2022
The stash is worth over $65 million at the time of writing
Some 1,400 Ether From Ronin Exploit Is Moved to Tornado Cash
4.4.2022
More than $4.9 million worth of ether was moved this morning from addresses connected to the $625 million exploit, on-chain data show
As New Crypto Sanction Screening Tool Launched, Tornado Cash Keeps Mixing and FBI Chimes In
11.3.2022
As the West is trying close all crypto loopholes that help evade sanctions against the aggressor state, Russia, and its ally, Belarus, Chainalysis is rolling out a sanctions screening tool, while crypto mixer Tornado Cash said they are powerless to or don't need to comply with Washington’s...
Monero, Kyber Network and Tornado Cash break out as traders pile into privacy protocols
9.3.2022
Bitcoin’s bullish surge and the urgent need for shielded crypto transactions appear to be benefitting XMR, TORN and KNC
Auditing Firms Claim Crypto.com Lost $15 Million in Incident as Users Report Suspicious Activity
19.1.2022
Crypto.com, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, experienced an incident on January 17 when some of its users reported strange activity in their accounts. The exchange acknowledged the event, and conducted an investigation immediately after, declaring that all funds were safe. However, reports from...
Crypto Mixing Tools Tornado.cash and Cashfusion Obscure More Than $8 Billion in Transactions
25.12.2021
While blockchain monitoring has increased a great deal during the last few years, cryptocurrency mixers have seen significant use from those who don’t want their financial transactions tracked. Meanwhile, two mixing applications, Tornado.cash and Cashfusion, have helped crypto owners make...
Ethereum privacy protocol Tornado Cash to launch on L2 Arbitrum
30.11.2021
Once fully deployed, users will be able to make private transactions through the popular Tornado Cash mixer on the Arbitrum layer two network
Privacy-Centric Crypto Mixing Protocol Tornado.cash Plans to Deploy on L2 Platform Arbitrum
29.11.2021
One of the largest cryptocurrency mixing protocols, Tornado.cash, has announced the project will deploy on the L2 (layer 2) Ethereum platform Arbitrum One. The creators of the Ethereum-based mixing application explain that settling on Arbitrum will allow Tornado.cash users to benefit from cheaper...
Hacker makes off with $5.7m after ransacking social token platform
16.3.2021
“The attacker has sold all the tokens,” announced social token platform Roll after a hacker accessed private keys to its hot wallet
TORN soars 200% as Tornado.Cash’s governance token becomes tradable
9.2.2021
Apes rejoice as yet another token airdrop fattens their portfolios
Origin Defi Protocol Suffers Massive Flash Loan Attack- OUSD Stablecoin Value Plunges 85%
18.11.2020
The OUSD stablecoin issuer, Origin Protocol is the latest Defi protocol to fall victim to a flash loan attack. The attack, which occurred in the early hours of Tuesday, on November 17, resulted in the disappearance of tokens worth millions of dollars. Confirming the attack, one of...
Developers of Ethereum Privacy Tool Tornado Cash Smash Their Keys
19.5.2020
Developers of ether mixer Tornado Cash have destroyed their admin keys, turning the privacy tool into permissionless code