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Crypto Casino Stake Opens Withdrawals After Reported $40M Exploit
5.9.2023
On September 4th, at 9:28 pm UTC, the crypto betting platform Stake resumed its deposit and withdrawal services only five hours after a reported $40 million exploit.
The incident began with multiple unusual transactions on Monday morning Eastern Time, with approximately $16 million in Ethereum...
Crypto Exchange Mango Dealing with Surging Legal Costs, a Year After $100 Million Market Manipulation Exploit
8.8.2023
A year after the alleged $100 million crypto market exploit by Avi Eisenberg, Mango Markets, a blockchain-based trading protocol, finds itself grappling with mounting legal expenses, prompting internal conflicts among its stakeholders.
The platform's financial strain has intensified as Mango...
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...
Ethical hacker retrieves $5.4M for Curve Finance amid exploit.
31.7.2023
Twitter accounts impersonating Curve Finance have also started to promote a fake refund scheme further targeting victims of the hack
DeFi Platform EraLend on zkSync Loses $3.4 Million in Blockchain Exploit
26.7.2023
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol EraLend has lost $3.4 million worth of crypto in a so-called re-entrancy attack.
The attack, which happened on Tuesday, exploited a vulnerability that allowed the hacker to make multiple calls to a function within one single transaction, enabling the person...
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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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
$700,000 drained from BNB Chain-based DeFi protocol LaunchZone
27.2.2023
BNB Chain-based DeFi protocol LaunchZone claims an exploit led to $700,000 of funds being drained from its liquidity pool, with its native token plunging in value
NFT Marketplace Magic Eden Pledges to Refund Users Who Were Sold Fake NFTs in ‘Massive Exploit’
5.1.2023
Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Magic Eden said that it would refund all users affected by the exploit that involved the sale of fake NFTs - passing them off as 'members' of verified collections.
On the morning of January 4 (PT time), the marketplace team saw "a handful" of reports saying...
BNB Chain-Based Defi Protocol Ankr Suffers Major Exploit
2.12.2022
Decentralized Web3 infrastructure provider Ankr has become the latest victim of a hacking attack targeting the defi space. The perpetrators who hit the platform were able to mint and steal a massive amount of tokens in a multimillion-dollar exploit. Defi Protocol Ankr Hit by Unlimited Mint...
Binance CEO Says They’re Closer to Identifying Hacker Behind $570,000,000 Exploit
27.10.2022
Major cryptoasset exchange Binance is closer to finding out the identity of the person(s) behind the $570 million hack on its native BNB blockchain, CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) told CNBC.
CZ said that Binance is working with law enforcement to identify the perpetrator(s), stating that,
“The...
Mango Markets Protocol Suffers $100 Million Exploit
12.10.2022
The Mango Markets protocol has experienced an exploit that allowed a person or group to get away with around $100m worth of various cryptoassets.
Per a Twitter thread from Mango Markets, the exploit was carried out by a person or group funding an account with the stablecoin USDC, and later taking...
BNB Chain Back Online Following $568 Million Exploit
10.10.2022
BNB Chain, the native blockchain behind the Binance crypto exchange, has come back online after being suspended due to an exploit that drained around $600 million in crypto assets.
On October 6, Binance announced the suspension of deposits and withdrawals from its BNB chain after it identified...
Binance BNB Chain Impacted By Potential $566 Million Exploit
7.10.2022
Major crypto exchange Binance has decided to temporarily freeze the activities of its blockchain, BNB Chain, after hackers exploited a bug to steal millions worth of crypto.
“Due to irregular activity we’re temporarily pausing BSC,” BNB Chain said in a tweet, before announcing that Binance Smart...
Curve Finance exploit: Experts dissect what went wrong
10.8.2022
Attackers that hijacked Curve Finance's landing page moved quickly to convert stolen funds to various tokens through different exchanges, wallets and mixers
The Blame Game Begins as Bored Apes Co-Founder Criticized for Blaming Discord Following Another NFT Exploit
6.6.2022
A co-founder of the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection faced a backlash for blaming the Discord messaging platform after ETH 200 (USD 378,000) worth of digital assets were snatched in an exploit.
On Saturday, Gordon Goner wrote on Twitter that Discord “isn’t working for Web3...
Attackers Steal $80 Million From Rari Capital’s Fuse Platform, Fei Protocol Suffers From Exploit
30.4.2022
According to a report from the blockchain company Blocsec, Rari Capital’s Fuse platform has lost roughly $80 million from a “reentrancy vulnerability.” On Saturday, Fei Protocol’s official Twitter account confirmed it lost funds from the Rari Fuse platform exploit....
Sky Mavis Raises $150 Million in Financing Round Led by Binance to Refund Users Affected by the Ronin Bridge Exploit
9.4.2022
Sky Mavis, the company behind the play-to-earn (P2E) game Axie Infinity, announced it has raised $150 million in a funding round to replenish the funds the company lost in the Ronin Network exploit. The funding round — which was led by Binance and had the participation of companies like...
Digital Collectibles Marketplace VeVe Loses 'Large Amount of Gems' in an Exploit
23.3.2022
VeVe, an app-based marketplace for licensed digital collectibles, has announced that it has become a victim of an exploit which resulted in the loss of a number of "gems."
"We have become aware of an exploit of our systems which resulted in a large amount of gems being acquired illegitimately,"...
Wormhole Network’s Cross-Chain Bridge Exploited for Over $250 Million in Ethereum
3.2.2022
Reports indicate that the Wormhole Network’s ethereum ↔ solana bi-directional bridge has been exploited by an attacker for 93,750 ether or more than $250 million using today’s ethereum exchange rates. The developers behind the Wormhole Network have told the public the network...