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PortuguêsAttackers that hijacked Curve Finance‘s landing page moved quickly to convert stolen funds to various tokens through different exchanges, wallets and mixers. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols continue to be targeted…
Continue ReadingFollowing the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) banning Tornado Cash and a number of associated Ethereum-based addresses, an anonymous Tornado Cash user has dusted a swathe…
Continue ReadingOn August 8, the ethereum mixing service Tornado Cash, and all the crypto addresses associated with the platform, were officially banned by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset…
Continue ReadingOn Monday, the U.S. Treasury Department’s watchdog the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) banned the ethereum mixing application Tornado Cash. OFAC has cited that the mixer has helped North…
Continue ReadingAccording to the co-founder of Debridge Finance, Alex Smirnov, the infamous North Korean hacking syndicate Lazarus Group subjected Debridge to an attempted cyberattack. Smirnov has warned Web3 teams that the…
Continue ReadingThe top 100 DeFi tokens had a mixed price action over the past week, with many seeing a downturn after some bullish action last week. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your…
Continue ReadingNomad announced that it’s offering up to a 10% bounty to return funds stolen from the recent hack on the Nomad bridge on Aug. 2. Nomad announced a bounty of…
Continue ReadingAustralian, Canadian & U.K. crypto investors may potentially claim hacked crypto as a tax loss, but U.S. investors will miss out, according to tax experts. For unlucky crypto investors looking…
Continue ReadingCrypto exchanges have become popular for enabling consumers to purchase, sell, swap, and store digital assets. However, research has shown that exchanges have been easy prey for hackers, especially as…
Continue ReadingFollowing the Solana wallet attack, the Solana Status team updated the public and detailed that the wallet addresses affected by the breach were tied to Slope mobile wallet applications. The…
Continue ReadingThe altcoins that were stolen in the Nomad bridge hack suffered as much as 94% decline in price after the exploit. The exploit took place due to a smart contract…
Continue ReadingParallel to the ongoing investigations of the Solana fiasco, CZ warned investors of “an active security incident on Solana” that drained funds in SOL and USDC off over 7000 wallets.…
Continue ReadingA malicious proposal (Proposal #85) requesting the transfer of 18 million Audius’ in-house AUDIO tokens worth nearly $6 million was approved by community voting. Proposals in crypto help communities make…
Continue ReadingThe university reluctantly paid €200,000 in Bitcoin in December 2019 to avoid losing critical research data and resources. Netherland-based Maastricht University (UM) is set to recover nearly €500,000 worth of…
Continue ReadingWhile awaiting Crema Finance’s report on the situation, the Crypto Twitter community took it to themselves to track down the hacker’s wallet and better understand the problem. Crema Finance, a…
Continue ReadingWhile price volatility remained a key factor, major DeFi tokens registered double digit loss over the past week as the DeFi TVL hovers near $50 billion mark. Welcome to Finance…
Continue ReadingA new report suggests that a notorious North Korea-affiliated hacking group may be behind last week’s $100 million Harmony attack. The Lazarus Group, a well-known North Korean hacking syndicate, has…
Continue ReadingWhile North Korea leads the world in crypto crime, crypto analytic firms have estimated that DPRK hackers have found it increasingly difficult to launder stolen crypto funds. North Korea leads…
Continue ReadingHarmony Protocol wants its money back. Seriously – and without any charges. Harmony has offered a $1 million bounty for anyone who can provide information that can lead to the…
Continue ReadingAccording to blockchain investigator Packshield, the hacker used a previously withdrawn pledged NFT from the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) collection as collateral to drain the assets. XCarnival, a liquidity…
Continue ReadingIn the world of cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance (defi), and Web3, airdrops have become commonplace in the industry. However, while airdrops sound like free money, there’s been a growing trend of…
Continue ReadingConfiant, an advertising security agency, has found a cluster of malicious activity involving distributed wallet apps, allowing hackers to steal private seeds and acquire the funds of users via backdoored…
Continue ReadingInternational law firm Holland & Knight served a defendant in a hacking case with an NFT that was created and airdropped by its asset recovery team. Law firms Holland &…
Continue ReadingAttackers have exploited a bug in the Osmosis exchange to the tune of $5M as FireStake validators admit to their role in racking up roughly $2M before stepping forward. Osmosis,…
Continue ReadingAccording to OKHotshot’s investigations, the attack was conducted by hacking into the Discord account of Boris Vagner, community and social manager for Yuga Labs. Yuga Labs, the creator of two…
Continue ReadingThe websites of several ministries of Belarus have allegedly been taken down in a new attack, part of the cyberwar Anonymous is waging to help Ukraine. The hacking group declared…
Continue ReadingHacktivist collective Anonymous has allegedly breached the systems of one of the largest financial institutions in Russia, Sberbank. The attackers announced on social media they have published thousands of emails,…
Continue ReadingThe developers have managed to delete the fake message and remove the MEE6 bot from the main server. Axie Infinity, the popular play-to-earn nonfungible token game, faced another attack on…
Continue ReadingThe public advisory warned private firms to do their due diligence before hiring freelance workers, as North Koreans often use illicit tactics and stolen identities to hide their nationality. The…
Continue ReadingDozens of DeFi systems have been hacked over the past year, and the trend doesn’t seem to be abating. The decentralized finance (DeFi) industry has lost over a billion dollars…
Continue ReadingWhile investigations are underway, the ongoing attack on various crypto platforms may be connected to the compromise of Coinzilla, an advertising and marketing agency. Popular crypto analytics platforms Etherscan and…
Continue ReadingThe hacker’s initial post, which was published in the announcements channel, claimed that OpenSea had “partnered with YouTube to bring their community into the NFT Space.” Nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace…
Continue ReadingA hacking group linked to the Anonymous collective has allegedly hit the popular Russian payment processor Qiwi. Network Battalion 65 announced on social media it had managed to gain access…
Continue ReadingA new Senate bill strives to keep the “spirit of blockchain” while combating crime, but critics call it ill-conceived, redundant and unworkable. The Empire State made two appearances on the…
Continue ReadingHackers are at it again, and this time they hit it big time. According to a tweet from smart contract research company BlockSec, decentralized finance platform Fei Protocol and Rari…
Continue ReadingDeFi investigator BlockSec’s monitoring system detected a loss of more than $80 million — citing the root cause as a typical reentrancy vulnerability. Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Fei Protocol offered…
Continue ReadingTwo individuals are charged in a federal indictment declassified Tuesday in the Southern District of New York with colluding to contravene US sanctions against North Korea by illegally providing crypto…
Continue ReadingWhen these cybercriminals obtain the seed phrase, they gain complete control over the Stepn user’s dashboard. Peckshield, a prominent blockchain security firm, has today exposed that there are numerous phishing…
Continue ReadingDeFi space saw the resurgence of Andre Cronje nearly a month after his departure announcement while dYdX has pledged to go fully decentralized by the end of the year. The…
Continue ReadingOn April 18, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Treasury Department, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) report concerning malicious North…
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