With Ledger Agent Stack, users can deploy bots to read balances, suggest transactions, prepare swaps and draft operations.
Onchain data shows the Ostium attacker dispersing the stolen funds across multiple wallets after converting USDC into ETH.
The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team has been using coordinated AI agents to test critical network infrastructure.
The funds have been tracked to crypto exchanges, and South Korea-based Upbit said it has suspended BONK deposits and withdrawals.
Humanity Protocol founder Terence Kwok says the project is pivoting to enterprise AI after a $36 million exploit, with fund recovery odds low.
Crypto hacks hit $75.9M across 40 incidents in June, down 7.1% from May, led by the $31M Humanity Protocol exploit, PeckShield said.
THORChain resumed trading after a 5-week halt following a $10.7 million multichain exploit in May affecting an Asgard vault.
Onchain security firm Blockaid said the root cause of the exploit could be a flaw in Taiko bridge's source-signal proof validation.
An X account using the bot's name claimed a $15 million loss and offered a $1 million bounty, but evidence shows it is a likely impersonator.
Secret Network says about $770,000 of the stolen funds still sits in the attacker's Axelar wallet, and that Axelar declined its request to freeze it.
Ten years ago, an attacker drained roughly 3.6 million ETH from The DAO, helping to spur the creation of the modern crypto security industry.
The immutable stage 2 rollup was sunset in 2022, and Aztec Labs holds no admin keys or control over the system, the team said.
The exploit drained roughly $1.34 million from five inactive Raydium liquidity pools, and impacted users will be compensated.
The Ironwood upgrade would introduce a new shielded pool and ensure the circulating ZEC supply remains bounded.
Out of the stolen amount, $23.7 million has been swapped for Ethereum, while around $7.9 million remains in H tokens.
Josh Swihart, founder of ZODL, provided details on how the Zcash team resolved a critical vulnerability in the Orchard shielded pool.
Decentralized finance has gotten a lot safer over the past six years, and a new review of protocol losses from 2020 through 2025 puts a pretty large number behind that claim. Industry-wide DeFi losses peaked at $2.62 billion in 2022 and fell roughly 80% to $534 million by 2024. Bridge hacks that once produced billion-dollar […]
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The vulnerability was fixed within days, and findings suggest that actual exploitation of the bug is unlikely.
DeFi exploit losses fell 74% from the 2022 peak to $680 million in 2025, according to Immunefi, amid structural security shifts.
EdgeX says that 174 addresses flooded a PancakeSwap pool with EDGE token sell orders during a period of low liquidity.
Radiant Capital said it hasn't been able to recover a meaningful amount of funds or raise new capital since the 2024 exploit.
Gnosis co-founder Martin Koppelmann said all user losses will be covered as containment efforts continue following an exploit.
The developer told The Block that two of 48 eligible investors have already claimed 96.5 ETH that was unfrozen, worth nearly $200,000 at current prices.
The attacker took USDC, ether, tether and PAYG tokens before laundering a portion through ChangeNow and Binance.
The attacker minted 5.4 trillion vsdCRV on Arbitrum and is actively swapping tokens for ether, the researchers said.
OpenZeppelin's Manuel Aráoz said he has been privately advising friends and family to exit all DeFi positions.
EURR fell to $0.85 and USDR fell as low as $0.40 after an attacker dumped roughly $10.4 million in face value on decentralized exchanges.
An attacker transferred 4,052.4 ETH worth $8.5 million back to Verus on Friday after the team proposed a bounty framework.
BTCFi protocol Echo was exploited, with the attacker minting 1,000 eBTC on Monad and using it as collateral to borrow WBTC.
Peckshield flagged that the Verus-Ethereum bridge has been drained for 103.6 tBTC, 1,625 ETH, and 147,000 USDC.