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A self-described white hat hacker has uncovered a “multi-million dollar vulnerability” in the bridge linking Ethereum and Arbitrum Nitro and received a 400 Ether (ETH) bounty for their find.Known as riptide on Twitter, the hacker described the exploit as the use of an initializing function to set their own bridge
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KyberSwap, the decentralized exchange built on liquidity protocol Kyber Network, has offered a hacker 15% of the funds from a $265,000 exploit as a bug bounty.In a Thursday blog post, Kyber Network said a hacker had used a frontend exploit to pilfer roughly $265,000 worth of user funds from KyberSwap.
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The Ethereum Foundation has announced it will be increasing the network’s bug bounty payouts fourfold ahead of the blockchain’s transition to proof-of-stake.In a Wednesday blog post, the Ethereum Foundation said between Aug. 24 and Sept. 8, all “Merge-related bounties for vulnerabilities” will be quadrupled for white hats testing the network.
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Nomad announced a bounty of up to 10% for the return of the stolen funds from the Nomad bridge. In a website announcement and tweet, the company publicly provided a wallet address for sending the funds. The bounty is applicable to anyone who comes forward from now on or already
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The exploit involved the attacker creating a fake tick account on Crema. A tick account is "a dedicated account that stores price tick data in CLMM,” the developers said, referring to Crema's market-making protocol. After that, the attacker exploited a command by writing the data on the fake account and
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Developers said the team was “gathering wallet data” and strategizing plans based on the impact that the incident caused on users. Source
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Meet "T Wells," a 30-something former educator who, in 2021, began working for “bounties” (or gigs) in the DAO ecosystem. Original Source
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Fei Protocol offered a $10 million bounty to hackers in an attempt to negotiate and retrieve a major chunk of the stolen funds from various Rari Fuse pools worth $79,348,385.61 — nearly $80 million.On Saturday, Fei Protocol informed its investors about an exploit across numerous Rari
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A hacker has made off with $2 million in bug bounty after finding an alarming vulnerability with the Ethereum network. This bug could have been very bad if it had been found by black hat hackers who could have exploited the digital asset for billions of dollars worth of ETH.
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As you might have read in our latest article, we’re fierce on safety. As blockchain’s first OS, we need to constantly prioritize the security of our code. That’s why we teamed up with Immunefi, DeFi’s leading bug bounty platform. What exactly is a Bug Bounty? A bug bounty is a financial incentive
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