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Optimism token was attacked earlier this week after the team announced that 20 million OP tokens were stolen. On Friday, the attacker behind the theft returned 17 million tokens. For returning the tokens, the attacker was rewarded with 2 million of the tokens. The funds were returned over the course of 17 transactions to
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Previously, the attacker cashed out 1 million OP and sent an additional 1 million to Buterin, who is working to return the funds according to Optimism. At press time, 1 million tokens, worth close to $900,000, remained in the attacker’s wallet, blockchain data shows. Original Source
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An opportunity for attack came when Wintermute gave the wrong wallet address to Optimism. The money was supposed to be held in a multi-signature wallet belonging to the Wintermute team, but the address provided by Wintermute was for a wallet on Ethereum, whereas it should have been an address on
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According to the summary, the attacker took out a flash loan on lending platform Aave which enabled them to amass a large amount of Beanstalk’s native governance token, Stalk. With the voting power granted by these Stalk tokens, the attacker was able to quickly pass a malicious governance proposal that
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On February 10, the well-known developer of Cydia and iOS Jailbreak, Jay Freeman, otherwise known as Saurik, published a Twitter thread about a bug he found in the Layer-2 (L2) scaling protocol known as Optimism. According to Freeman, the vulnerability, which has been patched, could have allowed an attacker to
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A bug on the non-fungible tokens (NFT) marketplace OpenSea has allowed an attacker to get away with massive discounts on several NFTs and make huge profit.The bug, which was discovered as early as Dec. 31, 2021, allowed the attacker to buy NFTs at older, lower prices, and sell them for
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BusinessElliptic has linked the activity to ransomware group REvil, with which DarkSide has close ties, being hacked and forced online by a U.S. government-led operation.By Jamie CrawleyOct 22, 2021 at 12:15 p.m. UTCUpdated Oct 22, 2021 at 12:15 p.m. UTC(Shutterstock) Original Source
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News of the hack caused the Yearn’s native currency YFI to fall by around 15%, from $35,000 to just under $30,000On February 5, Yearn Finance confirmed that their V1 yDAI vault has been exploited by a hacker. The DAI vault lost $11M with the hacker making away with $2.8M of
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In yet another attack on a major decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, farming project Pickle Finance has been exploited today to the tune of $20 million. The attack transpired roughly two hours ago, and ETH-savvy Twitter users were quick to notice that pickle’s cDAI jar — Pickle’s term for a yield-bearing vault
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