Elon Musk rolled out the paid verification model on X, earlier known as “Twitter Blue,” to fight the scammers and spammers thriving on the platform before his takeover.
SatoshiLabs revealed that it suspects the compromise to be a sophisticated and premeditated phishing attack planned by hackers over several weeks.
In its largest transaction, the HECO Chain exploiter sent 11,300 ETH — over $39.5 million — in one go.
A hacker exploited a bug in a newly launched gaming token on Blast network — Super Sushi Samurai — to steal roughly $4.6 million worth of Ethereum on March 21 — less than a month from its launch. The exploit resulted in an approximately 99% slippage in the token’s value following an unauthorized token dump. The […]
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ParaSwap paused the v6 API soon after discovering the vulnerability and secured the potential victims’ funds through a white hat intervention. Plans to reimburse potential victims are underway.
The hackers illegally accessed funds on NFPrompt, including a portion of the NFP treasury and ecosystem fund.
A recent phishing attack has left a crypto investor reeling from a loss of 501 ETH, valued at approximately $2 million, staked through liquid restaking protocol Ether.Fi. On-chain data reveals that the theft occurred earlier today and involved two transactions. In one transaction, 426 ETH were siphoned, followed by another 75 ETH in a subsequent […]
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The creators of a wallet drainer application have registered their business in the United Kingdom.
The crypto exchange team confirmed the attack on Feb. 18, a few hours after the first reports emerged on X (formerly Twitter).
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is analyzing the iOS version of the Binance Trust Wallet app for a vulnerability that could potentially be used to steal funds from crypto wallets.
The South Korean NFT and game development platform apparently suffered a private key leak that hackers used on Feb. 9.
The drainers, available on scam-as-a-service marketplaces, can flip a conditional within an on-chain transaction.
Ransomware attacks resulted in over $1 billion of cryptocurrency payments in 2023 as criminals targeted high-profile institutions and infrastructure.
The hacker behind the exploit didn’t use any mixer services or decentralized exchanges.
The alleged hack was reported by internet sleuth ZachXBT
MailerLite revealed that hackers gained control of select Web3 email accounts, which eventually led to a widescale phishing attack across the crypto ecosystem.
The exploit on the Socket protocol impacted 219 users with net losses of around $3.3 million.
Senators Ron Wyden and Cynthia Lummis questioned the SEC’s lack of multi-factor authentication and phishing-resistant hardware tokens for its X account.
North Korea-affiliated actors were behind a third of all crypto hacks in 2023, making off with some $600 million in funds, a new TRM Labs study said.
Security experts have declared that the Compound Finance X page has been hacked after it started promoting what appears to be a phishing site.
The Canadian exchange suffered a security break earlier this month, resulting in the loss of an unknown amount of customer funds.
The figure is roughly half the estimated $4.2 billion of 2022, a year that also included $40 billion lost through the collapse of Terra, Celsius and FTX.
Payments through bank accounts are still awaited.
The judgment was first made in August and has now been cleared to take effect, according to a filing in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Shakeeb Ahmed was arrested for hacking an unspecified DEX, then admitted to Nirvava Finance hack too.
The hacker behind the attack on Ledger’s connector library has stolen at least $484,000, according to blockchain analysis platform Lookonchain.
Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs credits this decline to enhanced security measures, law enforcement, and industry coordination.
Sometimes, the law is the law, industry experts say.
Justin Sun’s cryptocurrency exchange HTX has been hacked twice since rebranding from Huobi in September 2023, raising questions from the crypto community.