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Cypher announces recovery plan, says it will ‘socialize’ losses in initial stage

[Aug 23, 2023 2:59 PM] Cypher announced that losses from its exploit will be distributed among users in an initial stage, then compensated through protocol revenue when the platform relaunches.

Multichain victims search for answers in $1.5B exploit as new evidence emerges

[Aug 23, 2023 9:00 AM] Chinese police may have busted Multichain in a money laundering investigation, but many questions remain, including its CEO’s alleged fake ID.

FBI Says North Korean Hackers May Try to Sell $40M of Bitcoin

[Aug 23, 2023 3:54 AM] North Korean hackers look set to try to sell more than $40 million of stolen bitcoin (BTC), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said.

Terra Website Compromised; Developers Warn Against Phishing Scam

[Aug 21, 2023 7:47 AM] Layer 1 blockchain Terra was targeted by a phishing attack over the weekend with the official website being compromised by hackers.

Cypher Protocol reveals $600K of stolen funds is now frozen on CEXs

[Aug 17, 2023 11:10 PM] Solana-based Cypher Protocol has managed to stop around $600,000 of stolen funds from exiting various centralized exchanges.

De.Fi's Antivirus Tool Releases on zkSync Era Mainnet

[Aug 15, 2023 7:00 AM] The antivirus tool protects users against common malicious crypto exploits, such as phishing, smart contract vulnerabilities, blind signing, and more.

Base project RocketSwap shares emergency plan following $865K exploit

[Aug 14, 2023 11:02 PM] RocketSwap Labs plans on reaching out to the exploiter on-chain, who stole an estimated $865,000 from the protocol on Aug. 14.

Weekend Wrap: Uniswap dev sacked for alleged rug, Steadefi hacker goes mixing and more

[Aug 13, 2023 11:10 PM] Uniswap developer AzFlin has admitted to creating the FRENS token but has argued what he did doesn't constitute a rug pull.

Newly discovered Bitcoin wallet loophole let hackers steal $900K — SlowMist

[Aug 10, 2023 12:30 PM] A series of attacks drained the wallets of BTC users by exploiting a faulty random seed generation algorithm.

As Curve Averts DeFi Death Spiral, Fiasco Exposes Serious Risks

[Aug 9, 2023 10:27 AM] Curve, a leading decentralized exchange on Ethereum, was hacked for $70 million in July. Questions continue to linger around the platform's long-term viability and potential contagion risk.

A Long Con: CoinsPaid Says Systems Were Under Attack For Six Months

[Aug 9, 2023 9:00 AM] In a new report, Estonia’s preeminent crypto payment and personal wallet provider, CoinsPaid, has revealed the intricate workings of a hacking incident that led to a colossal loss of $37 million. This audacious breach was reportedly the culmination…

Navigating the Storm: Defi’s Precarious Position Amid a String of Exploits and Market Declines

[Aug 4, 2023 1:00 PM] In the wake of July’s unprecedented wave of decentralized finance (defi) breaches, including Curve Finance’s staggering $62 million exploit, the defi economy has plummeted into a gloomy state. Hovering perilously close to dipping…

Looter Behind $61M Curve Hack Starts Returning Assets, Raising Hope for Recovery

[Aug 4, 2023 8:31 AM] The exploited protocols offered a 10% bounty Thursday for returning the rest of the assets until the end f this week.

Razzlekhan’s Husband Admits to Being Hacker in Infamous 2016 Bitfinex Attack: CNBC

[Aug 3, 2023 10:01 AM]

Curve emergency DAO terminates rewards for hack-related pools

[Aug 2, 2023 3:19 PM] The Curve emergency DAO removed CRV rewards for alETH, msETH, pETH, crvCRVETH, Arbitrum Tricrypto and multiBTC pools.

Curve Debacle Triggers Transaction Frenzy, Sending Ethereum ‘MEV’ Rewards to Record High

[Jul 31, 2023 11:43 AM] On July 30, over 6,000 ETH ($11M worth) in so-called Maximal Extractable Value rewards were paid out to Ethereum validators, the most ever for a single day.

Crypto Hacks and Exploits Cost Traders $303M in July; Worst Month of 2023

[Jul 31, 2023 7:44 AM] Some $52 million of assets were siphoned from Curve Finance just this weekend.

Era Lend on zkSync exploited for $3.4M in reentrancy attack

[Jul 25, 2023 10:42 AM] The lending app was drained of funds using a “read-only reentrancy” bug, a type of vulnerability that is often difficult for auditors to spot.

ZkSync's Largest Lender Struck by $3.4M Exploit

[Jul 25, 2023 7:34 AM] EraLend, the largest lending protocol on Ethereum scaling blockchain zkSync, has been hit by a $3.4 million reentrancy attack, according to blockchain security firm CertiK.

'Razzlekhan,' Husband Agree to Plea Deal in Bitfinex Hack Laundering Case Worth Billions

[Jul 21, 2023 9:45 AM] The pair will forfeit the proceeds from nearly 120,000 bitcoins they allegedly laundered from the hacked crypto exchange.

DeFi Protocol Conic Finance Hacked for 1,700 Ether

[Jul 21, 2023 8:04 AM]

Crypto lender Geist Finance shuts down permanently over Multichain hack

[Jul 14, 2023 12:10 PM] The $29 million TVL lending platform is shutting down because its oracles are misreporting Multichain token values after the exploit.

New York prosecutor charges hacker over $9M exploit of Solana-based exchange

[Jul 11, 2023 11:56 PM] A skilled computer security engineer has been charged with wire fraud and money laundering related to an attack on a decentralized exchange.

Multichain Executor has been ‘draining’ AnySwap tokens: Report

[Jul 11, 2023 2:00 PM] The contract has used an “anySwapFeeTo” function to transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of tokens to itself, which on-chain sleuth Spreek suspected may have been malicious.

Multichain's ‘mysterious withdrawals’ have whiffs of a ‘rug pull’ — Chainalysis

[Jul 10, 2023 11:08 PM] Chainalysis told Cointelegraph that they were “describing it as a possible rug pull,” based on an analysis of Multichain’s spurious transactions and internal problems.

Arcadia Finance hacker used reentrancy exploit, team demands return of funds

[Jul 10, 2023 2:53 PM] In a post-mortem report, Arcadia Finance developers said an attacker stole funds by liquidating a vault before it could perform a health check, interrupting the app’s normal flow of operations.

'Scammers' impersonate Crypto Twitter users on Threads as users near 100M

[Jul 9, 2023 9:15 PM] Threads are already seeing potential crypto scammers arrive on the platform as Crypto Twitter personas warn of impersonators on the app.

Circle Intervenes, Freezes $63 Million From Multichain Hack

[Jul 7, 2023 8:00 PM] Circle, the official issuer of USDC, the second largest stablecoin by circulating supply, has frozen $63 million from the Multichain hack. Compiled Etherscan data on July 7 shows that the stablecoin issuer froze $27.65 million, $30.1 million, and…

Poly Network urges users to withdraw after exploit affects 57 crypto assets

[Jul 2, 2023 10:16 PM] The Poly Network has been exploited again, this time due to compromised private keys according to blockchain security firm Dedaub.

Poly Network Attacker Issues 'Worthless' Billions in SHIB, BNB, BUSD in Latest Crypto Hack

[Jul 2, 2023 1:22 AM] An estimated $4 billion worth of malicious token issuances on PolyNetwork will not bear much money for attackers due to low liquidity and security precautions.