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Decentralized finance (DeFi) app Steadefi was exploited for at least $334,000 on Aug. 7 in an ongoing attack. The app's development team has said in a social media post that the attack currently "puts all funds at risk." The app's total value locked (TVL) has plummeted as a result of the
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The $70 million weekend exploit of major platforms, including Curve, come at a time when developers are discussing changes to the prevailing AMM liquidity model. Source
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The BNB Smart Chain (BSC) has reportedly suffered copycat attacks due to a vulnerability in the Vyper programming language, following a similar vein to the exploit on the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance.Amid the exploits carried out on Ethereum, Blockchain security firm BlockSec tweeted on July 30 that around
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One can even imagine, for example, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN) using blockchain technology to create databases of financial records and dealings, and then applying an AI algorithm to analyze the data to detect cases of fraud or other abnormalities. In this scenario, the two technologies
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Lending app Era Lend on zkSync has been exploited for $3.4 million worth of crypto, according to a July 25 report from blockchain security firm CertiK. The attacker used a “read-only reentrancy attack” to drain the funds, which is a type of attack that interrupts a multi-step process and then
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Mossab Hussein, co-founder of cybersecurity firm Spidersilk, said the surprising emails can be attributed to one of two options: "It's either FTX itself sending those emails [to notify them of the claims portal] and giving people a scare. Or, someone has "a list" of emails and is bruteforce resetting their
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Hackers continue their relentless attacks, displaying no signs of slowing down. Shortly after the Multichain hack, scammers started spreading a phishing link on Twitter.The fraudulent distribution of Fantom (FTM) to users — falsely linked to the Multichain attack — is rapidly spreading on Twitter, attracting significant attention. The post has
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More than $765,000 worth of nonfungible tokens has been stolen as part of a reported SIM swap attack on the GutterCatGang NFT project.The security breach was highlighted by several NFT community members at around 8 pm UTC on July 7, with GutterCatGang co-founder @GutterMitch tweeting out a warning that: “Our
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Floating Point Group (FPG), an institutional trading desk specializing in cryptocurrencies, suffered a cyber attack on Sunday, June 11, which resulted in a loss of between $15 million and $20 million in crypto, a spokesman for the firm told CryptoX. Source
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