The "Privacy Pools" tool was inspired by a research paper co-written by Vitalik Buterin and other security experts in 2023.
The team behind the Hashgraph network is launching a new private, permissioned blockchain geared towards institutions.
ZachXBT said scammers have stolen over $46 million in Bitcoin and other crypto from Coinbase users in March alone.
BNB Chain surpassed Ethereum to become the most targeted network in Q1, accounting for 19 individual attacks.
Coinbase-based security firm Harpie has shut down its services after struggling to keep the business afloat.
An attacker drain approximately 6,262 ETH, valued at around $13 million, from Abracadabra’s liquidity pools on GMX.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
A portion of the funds (193 BTC or $16 million) passed through the Wasabi mixer before reaching various peer-to-peer vendors.
Utila provides digital asset infrastructure for institutions, focusing on stablecoin payments and tokenization.
Coinbase's Verified Pools are available to users in the United States, Singapore, Netherlands, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, and Channel Islands.
The maintainer of AIXBT's social media account said the attacker gained access to the bot's “simulation wallet” through malicious prompting.
On Feb. 28, the Wemix Foundation suffered a $6.2 million hack — but made a public announcement four days later.
North Korea's Lazarus Group currently holds 13,518 BTC, worth around $1.13 billion, according to data from Arkham Intelligence.
OKX halted its DeFi services used by hackers to launder some of the proceeds from the $1.5 billion Bybit hack.
Previous Pectra activations on the Holesky and Sepolia testnets ran into configuration issues, pushing back the official release schedule.
The attack, discovered by Ledger security researchers, involves "voltage glitching" and reprogramming a device's microcontroller.
Hyperliquid said there had been no exploit or hack of the protocol, but its liquidation engine could not handle the size of the position.
Crypto mixers and crosschain bridges help criminals obscure stolen funds, making it harder for investigators to trace illicit transactions.
In January 2024, Ripple's Chris Larsen admitted there had been "unauthorized access" to his “personal XRP accounts."
Coinbase continues to explore tokenization of traditional financial assets, aiming to make securities trading more efficient and accessible.
Developers appear to have identified the issue and have rolled out a fix — as the network is once again processing full blocks.
Bybit's Ben Zhou said that this week and the next are critical for freezing stolen funds as funds will start to clear on trading platforms.
MetaMask head of security, Taylor Monahan, said Lazarus has moved at least 209,384 ETH, over half the ETH stolen from Bybit, into BTC.
The move marks Deutsche’s latest step into the crypto space, which includes forays into validating networks and mining bitcoins.
The crypto industry lost a further $1.53 billion in February due to hacks and exploits, representing a 20x increase month-over-month.
BitGo’s head of activations has worked to bring on new protocols like Sui and Berachain, which are staking foundation and treasury assets.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Lazarus appears to have compromised a Safe developer machine, allowing it to inject a highly-targeted script used to control Bybit's wallet.
Pump.fun's compromised X account promoted one false governance token and two other scam tokens about the hack itself, including "HACKED" and "hackeddotfun."
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