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Mobile MetaMask users on the app’s v7.9.0 briefly experienced issues with transactions but the company said normalcy resumed with a recent patch shipped by developers. Following the bug fix, MetaMask advised its mobile users to update their apps to the latest version 7.10.0 as soon as possible. The problem with the
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Aave has suspended operations in a number of markets after receiving a problem report on a certain function
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Some of the largest United States banks are not able to facilitate customers deposits after one of the Federal Reserve’s payment systems suffered an outage on Nov. 3.The Federal Reserve said the bug was caused by a "processing issue" in the Automated Clearing House — a payment processing network widely
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GMX, a decentralized futures exchange, awarded the Collider team $1 million for finding a bug in its debt tracking system. Last year, GMX had a bug that caused GMX V1 liquidity providers to receive incorrect fair value quotes for tokens, causing the price of GLP, the exchange’s liquidity provider token, to deviate from
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Mixin Network, a decentralized cross-chain protocol, in a message to the hacker behind the $200 million exploit on Sept. 23, has offered a $20-million bug bounty for the return of the remaining funds.Mixin Network encrypted the message with the exploiter transaction, requesting the exploiter to return the funds as the majority
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Blockchain security platform Immunefi has launched an on-chain system for bug bounties, according to a Sept. 26 announcement. The new system, called “Vaults,” allows Web3 developers to escrow funds in an on-chain address and use them to pay out bug bounties to white hat hackers.Immunefi believes the new system will
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The developers behind file compression software WinRAR have patched a zero-day vulnerability that allowed hackers to install malware onto unsuspecting victims' computers, enabling them to hack into their crypto and stock trading accounts.On Aug. 23, Singapore-based cybersecurity firm Group-IB reported a zero-day vulnerability in the processing of the ZIP file
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms Curve, Metronome and Alchemix have jointly announced an initiative to recover stolen funds from the recent exploits of Curve’s pools.According to on-chain data, the protocols are offering a 10% bounty of the stolen funds as a reward, urging those responsible for the exploit to step forward
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Bug bounties are programs organizations offer to incentivize security researchers or ethical or white hat hackers to find and report vulnerabilities in their software, websites or systems. Bug bounties aim to improve overall security by identifying and fixing potential weaknesses before malicious actors can exploit them.Organizations that implement bug bounty
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Mastodon gGmbH, the organization that maintains Mastodon’s open source software, rated one other bug as critical and the three others as high and medium in severity. Large servers were also sent pre-announcements about the security holes in recent weeks, so they could be ready to quickly deploy a patch when
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