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Engineer hacks Trezor wallet, recovers $2M in 'lost' crypto
26.1.2022
Hacker helps Trezor One owner who forgot his wallet passcode and seed phrase to recover cryptocurrency funds valued over $2 million
Hacker Hijacks Military Numbers Station, Proceeds To Rickroll Everyone
21.1.2022
Mysterious Russian shortwave radio station UVB-76, known as The Buzzer, normally broadcasts nothing but indecipherable beeps and numbers. But recently it has started to take music requests and post memes, after hackers seemingly took control of the channel for their own purposes. “Aboba” a voice...
Multichain hacker returns 322 ETH, keeps hefty finders fee
21.1.2022
Owing to a security vulnerability in six tokens, Multichain users lost more than $3M over the week. A white hat hacker returned 322 ETH, but in excess of 527 ETH is still exploited
Hacker Steals USD 15M from Crypto.com, Say Analysts; Platform Claims User Funds Weren't Lost
18.1.2022
Major crypto platform Crypto.com has lost millions of dollars in crypto in yesterday’s attack, claim analysts, while the platform's CEO is assuring the public that customer funds have not been lost.
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek tweeted “some thoughts” on Tuesday regarding the event of...
Polygon upgrade quietly fixes bug that put $24B of MATIC at risk
30.12.2021
“Considering how much was at stake, I believe our team has made the best decisions possible given the circumstances,” said Polygon’s co-founder Jaynti Kanani
A Lone Hacker Has Been Terrorizing Pokémon Fans Trying To Trade Monsters
1.12.2021
It’s been a bad year for anyone who wants to trade in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. Since this spring, one hacker has rendered these 3DS games’ Global Trade System nearly unusable, as hacked pokémon they uploaded cause players’ hardware to freeze upon trying to access the GTS. Read more
Hackers Appear One Step Closer To Jailbreaking The PS5
8.11.2021
The PlayStation 5 only launched a year ago this week, but already hackers appear to have made massive breakthroughs in potentially jailbreaking the latest Sony console. Both theFlow0 and Fail0verflow posted screenshots on Twitter over the weekend indicating they managed to unlock the PS5’s debug...
Australian Police Confiscate Cryptocurrency Worth $1 Million With Help From FBI
30.10.2021
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has confirmed that the Supreme Court of New South Wales has ordered the forfeiture of cryptocurrency belonging to a convicted hacker. “The amount of cryptocurrency forfeited, more than $1.2 million, is the largest Commonwealth forfeiture...
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
Comparing Google Analytics and Plausible Numbers
8.10.2021
I saw this blog post the other day: 58% of Hacker News, Reddit and tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics. That’s an enticing title to me. I’ve had Google Analytics on this site literally from the day I launched it. …
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DeFi security project 'Lossless' helps recover $16.7M from Cream Finance hack
4.10.2021
Lossless also plans to ship a security tool that will reportedly aid DeFi projects in preventing hacks and exploits on their platforms
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...
SushiSwap denies reports of billion dollar bug
23.9.2021
Claims by a self professed white-hat hacker about a major security risk to SushiSwap liquidity providers have been rejected by one of the exchange’s devs
Avalanche Defi Platform Vee Finance Attacked — $35 Million in ETH, BTC Siphoned
21.9.2021
On September 21, 2021, an Avalanche-based decentralized finance (defi) platform Vee Finance announced that it suffered from an incident that siphoned 8,804 ether and 213 bitcoin out of the system. The team has suspended the defi platform contracts and stressed that the stablecoins have not been...
Custodial Lightning Network Service Attack Discovered by LN ‘Newbie’ — Hacker Strikes 6 LN Custodians
20.9.2021
On September 18, a Redditor posted to the r/bitcoin forum and explained how he discovered a way to “attack [the] lightning Network’s custodial services.” The Reddit account dubbed “Reckless Satoshi” wanted to figure out if a “discrepancy between real...
Hacker vymyslel způsob, jak schovat malware do paměti grafické karty. Žádný antivirus si s tím neporadí
3.9.2021
Hackerské útoky a malware jsou stále pokročilejší a tvůrci těchto programů se dostali i do místa, kde to zatím nikdo nečeká – paměti grafické karty.
Koncept využití grafické karty pro chod malwaru i ukládání dat byl vědci představen už v roce 2013 (PDF) a další výzkumy se objevily ještě v
[aktualita] Poly Network hack: Útočník slíbil, že uživatelům vrátí víc kryptoměn, než kolik jich ukradl
24.8.2021
Platforma Poly Network oznámila, že zahájila proces vracení ukradených kryptoměn jejich původním vlastníkům. Upozornil na to server The Verge. Firmu před několika týdny napadl hacker, který z platformy ukradl tokeny Ethereum, Binance Blockchain nebo Dogecoin za více než 600 milionů dolarů. Útočník...
Hacker, který ukradl kryptoměny za 13 miliard korun, dodržel slib. Vrátil celou částku zpět
24.8.2021
Případ ukradených kryptoměn za více než 13 miliard korun z blockchainové platformy Poly Network má dobrý konec. Neznámý hacker vrátil veškeré prostředky zpět, jak původně slíbil. Provozovatel oficiálně oznámil, že zahajuje vracení odcizených aktiv klientům.
Poly Network uvádí, že ho čeká ještě
A Tale of Two Hacks: Poly Hacker Bows Out, Liquid to Restore Operations
23.8.2021
In the aftermath of the recent hacks that targeted interoperability protocol Poly Network and Japanese crypto exchange Liquid, both entities are signalling efforts to restore their operations, as well as freeze and return the stolen assets. Amidst all that, Poly Network's hacker has apologized...