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Sturdy Finance Falls Victim to Exploit, Losing 442 ETH in Latest Defi Hack
12.6.2023
Decentralized finance (defi) platform Sturdy Finance was exploited on Sunday evening, losing 442 ether to an attacker. The team behind the project stated that it is aware of the reported exploit and paused markets at 10:19 p.m. ET. 442 Ethereum Worth Over $766K Siphoned From Sturdy Protocol...
Losses from crypto rug pulls outpaced DeFi exploits in May: Beosin
2.6.2023
Over $45 million was lost to exit scams in May while exploits on DeFi protocols racked up less than half that amount over the same period
New TikTok Trend Uses AI-Generated Kids To Exploit Real Murder Victims
31.5.2023
A whole new sub-genre of awful “true crime” content is taking root on TikTok. Posters there are using “artificial intelligence”-powered media creation tools to create fake videos that purport to show actual murder victims, often children, sharing grisly details about how they were killed. Even...
Jimbos Protocol to Work With U.S. Homeland Security to Help Recover $7.5M From Flash Loan Exploit
31.5.2023
The team is opening more cases in other jurisdictions and offering a roughly $800,000 bounty to the general public for information on the exploiter
Jimbos Protocol offers deal to hacker, threatens police action
29.5.2023
The deal was posted to both the Ethereum network and the protocol’s official Twitter channel
Jimbos Protocol hacked for over $7.5 million using flash loan exploit
29.5.2023
Shortly after it fell victim to a hack, Arbitrum-based Jimbos Protocol has decided to seek the help of security researchers and on-chain analysts who collaborated on investigating similar attacks which targeted protocols such as Euler Finance and Sentiment....
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Arbitrum Based Jimbos Protocol Scurries for Revival After $7M Exploit
29.5.2023
Version 2 of Jimbos protocol was attacked over the weekend for $7.3 million, just days after going live
Fortnite Is Banning Anyone Who Uses This Game-Breaking Exploit
23.5.2023
Fortnite is issuing bans to anyone who uses an esoteric exploit that lets players freeze time with the Kinetic Blade katana. In only the smattering of days since players discovered the “game-breaking” glitch, before Fortnite developers “temporarily disabled” the kinetic blade’s usage in tournament...
Tornado Cash’s TORN Token Up 10% as Attacker Submits Proposal to Undo Attack
22.5.2023
The proposal would revert Tornado Cash’s governance back to token holders, but not everyone in the community agrees that it's a benevolent plan
Telegram addresses camera exploit, points to Apple macOS security permissions
17.5.2023
Messaging app Telegram denies users were at risk after a security exploit was discovered that could allow attackers to gain control of a device’s camera on macOS systems
Libra-related Sui blockchain fixes critical bug that put ‘billions’ at risk
16.5.2023
The vulnerability was located in a file that translates human-readable code into machine language for storage
Lawmaker Warns US Default Risks Dollar’s Reserve Currency Status, Exploitation by China and Russia
10.5.2023
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee has warned that China and Russia would seek to exploit the chaos resulting from a U.S. default. He further cautioned that the U.S. dollar’s reserve currency status could be eroded if the U.S. defaults on its debt obligations. U.S. Lawmaker’s Debt...
Chatgpt ‘Is the New Crypto,’ Meta Says Malware Actors Exploit AI Craze
4.5.2023
A growing number of malware creators are now taking advantage of the significant interest in Chatgpt to lure victims, Facebook owner Meta has noticed. According to its head of information security, the AI-based chatbot is “the new crypto” for bad actors and the social media giant is preparing...
Level Finance confirms $1M exploit due to buggy smart contract
2.5.2023
An attacker manipulated a “claim multiple” bug in a Level Finance smart contract to steal more than 214,000 LVL tokens from the exchange
DeFi Protocol 0VIX Loses Nearly $2M in Flash-Loan Exploit
28.4.2023
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol 0VIX has lost $2 million in a flash loan exploit, according to on-chain data
CertiK, zkSync to launch compensation plan for $2M Merlin DEX exploit
26.4.2023
The Web3 security firm urges the rogue developer to return 80% of the stolen funds and offers 20% as a white hat bounty
zkSync-Based DEX Merlin Drained of $1M During Public Token Sale Despite ‘Audit’
26.4.2023
The project garnered hype among Crypto Twitter users for its attractive yield offered on deposits
People Are Using A ‘Grandma Exploit’ To Break AI
19.4.2023
Artificially intelligent text generation tools like ChatGPT and the Bing search engine’s chatbot have many rightly scared about the tech’s long-term impact, folks are finding new ways to crank out hilarious yet concerning results. Some of the latest stunts involve asking AI services to assume...
MetaMask denies vulnerability that led to 5000 ETH exploit
19.4.2023
Taylor Monahan had earlier claimed that the exploit worth 5000 ETH happened in late December 2022 due to a security vulnerability in MetaMask. MetaMask has played this down through a tweet wherein it has denied any such claim. MetaMask has said that it is not a MetaMask-specific exploit, calling...
MetaMask denies claims of wallet exploit in 'massive' $10M hack
19.4.2023
MetaMask stated its security team is working with others in the Web3 wallet space to uncover the source of this exploit