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Possible ‘white hat hacker’ exploits THORchain for $8M, proposes 10% bounty
23.7.2021
The white-hat hacker claims to have mercifully minimized the damage of their $8 million exploit in a bid to teach THORChain a lesson
FinCEN Names Misuse of Cryptocurrencies a National Priority
4.7.2021
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has named “cybercrime, including relevant cybersecurity and virtual currency considerations” a national priority. In particular, the Treasury is concerned about the “misuse of virtual assets that exploits and undermines their...
Growing pains? DeFi exploits plunder BSC, which calls for reinforcements
5.6.2021
Binance Smart Chain is getting overrun by hacks, with CipherTrace brought in to keep the BSC-based DeFi platforms safe
Data Shows BSC Dapps Lost $167 Million Last Month From Flash Loan Attacks
3.6.2021
Binance Smart Chain (BSC) decentralized applications (dapps) have been hit with a number of flash loan attacks in recent weeks. According to collected data by Rekt, during the last 30 days BSC has lost a total of $167 million from these flash loan exploits. Flash Loan Hackers Prey on Binance Smart...
CipherTrace expands to cover Binance Smart Chain amid wave of exploits
28.5.2021
Binance beefs up blockchain analytics amid a surge in DeFi exploits
Ciphertrace Report Shows Crypto Crime Moving to Defi
15.5.2021
Ciphertrace, a blockchain analytics company, has announced that crypto-related crimes have moved to the realm of decentralized finance (defi) apps and protocols. Now, the impact these hacks and exploits represent is way bigger than the one classic hacks to centralized exchanges and other scams...
Alpha Homora defies market slump, bolsters TVL and token price on v2 relaunch
13.5.2021
The leveraged yield farming protocol looks to put multiple missteps in the past with a successful relaunch
DeFi hacks and exploits total $285M since 2019, Messari reports
29.4.2021
Decentralized finance platforms on the Ethereum network have lost about $285 million to rogue actors since 2019
Smart contract exploits are more ethical than hacking... or not?
18.4.2021
What is certain is that exploits only get points for being less disastrous than their counterpart
Yearn Finance DAI Vault ‘Has Suffered an Exploit’; Funds Lost Unclear
4.2.2021
The amount taken is unclear but Yearn shows percentage losses for the DAI vault in the triple digits
Roundup of crypto hacks, exploits and heists in 2020
26.12.2020
2020 has been the year of DeFi, but not all has gone smoothly with the fledgling financial ecosystem
$10.8M Stolen, Developers Implicated in Alleged Smart Contract ‘Rug Pull’
2.12.2020
Rogue developers seem to have rug-pulled their own project, Compounder Finance, netting some $10.8 million in funds from the project’s investors
Exploits and Flash Loans Are Just the Beginning, Defi Economy Is Less Private Than People Think
22.11.2020
Decentralized finance otherwise known as defi has climbed significantly in value this year, as the total value locked (TVL) in defi today is over $14 billion. Meanwhile, numerous defi platforms are getting attacked with flash loans and there are so many new defi projects, it’s hard to keep...
DeFi Exploits Can’t Be Pinned on Flash Loans, Industry Leaders Say
18.11.2020
DeFi’s novel flash loan products aren't to blame for the recent string of exploits, industry leaders say
DeFi Project Akropolis Token Pool Drained of $2M in DAI
12.11.2020
Decentralized finance platform Akropolis’s yCurve pools have been drained resulting in the loss of $2 million
Lightning Network Exploits Continue to Hinder the Bitcoin Scaling Solution
1.11.2020
While bitcoin has run-up to all new price highs in 2020, a great number of crypto supporters have been complaining about the mempool backlog and the high fees needed to send a transaction. Meanwhile, the Lightning Network is far from seeing widespread adoption, and a number of attack vectors have...
Harvest Finance: $24M Attack Triggers $570M ‘Bank Run’ in Latest DeFi Exploit
26.10.2020
Harvest Finance has seen its total value locked drop by more than $500 million in the 12 hours since being hit by a flash loan attack
Harvest Finance Token Plummets 65% After Attack Saps DeFi Site of TVL
26.10.2020
A possible exploit in DeFi protocol Harvest Finance has caused the site's TVL to drop sharply, along with the price of its FARM token
Bitcoin.com Exchange to List Aspire and Aspire Gas as Newest Digital Asset Creation Platform Comes to Market
30.9.2020
Aspire (ASP) is the first digital asset creation platform to resist both mining exploits and 51 percent attacks common to proof-of-work blockchains. Its fees are a tiny fraction of creating assets on Ethereum or other platforms due to its innovative Aspire Gas (GASP) blockchain Both tokens will...
Publicly Listed Energy Firm Equinor Exploits Gas Flaring in North Dakota to Mine Bitcoin
21.9.2020
Just recently, the firm Arcane Research recently revealed a number of screenshots from the publicly traded energy firm, Equinor. The pictures show the multinational company leveraging natural gas flaring to power bitcoin mining operations. In recent years, using the unorthodox gas flaring scheme...