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The attacker who drained $46 million from KyberSwap relied on a “complex and carefully engineered smart contract exploit” to carry out the attack, according to a social media thread by Ambient exchange founder Doug Colkitt. Colkitt labeled the exploit an “infinite money glitch.” According to him, the attacker took advantage of
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The Fantom Foundation, a nonprofit organization developing the Fantom blockchain platform, has eliminated a significant vulnerability after a $550,000 hack in October.On Oct. 17, the Fantom Foundation suffered a hot wallet hack, with an unknown attacker draining 1% of Fantom Foundation’s funds. The foundation subsequently stopped using some of the
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By misusing Create2, wallet drainers can instantly create temporary wallet addresses to receive funds after a user clicks on a malicious signature. When users send funds or interact with a smart contract, they will be prompted to "approve" a signature, hackers often disguise permissions within this signature to gain access
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Phishing scammers have cloned the websites of crypto media outlet Blockworks and Ethereum blockchain scanner Etherscan to trick unsuspecting readers into interacting with a phishing site.A cloned Blockworks site displays a fake "BREAKING" news report of a supposed multimillion-dollar “approvals exploit” on the decentralized exchange Uniswap and encourages users to
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Scammers use a variety of techniques to steal users’ money, some of which only require knowing your wallet address, a Forta Network researcher said. Source
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However, the court has objected to the BlockFi request noting that every penny used to pay employees denies the creditors their right to be reimbursed.Distressed cryptocurrency lender BlockFi has filed with the bankruptcy court in the District of New Jersey wanting to get bonuses approval for retaining experienced employees. According
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While many are still enjoying the holiday season, hackers are hard at work, draining around $8 million in an ongoing BitKeep wallet exploit. On Dec. 26, some users of the multichain crypto wallet BitKeep reported that their funds were being drained and transferred while they were not using their wallets. In
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“For short-term investors who are into day trading, margin trading, arbitrage trading, the 1% TDS becomes infeasible. The majority of the population is still waiting on the fence, once we see the bill then we should see exponential growth. India is very rich in talent. Most tech-savvy people are here.
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The auto-approve feature, for example, instantly initiated crypto transactions between wallets and trusted web apps. It cut out seconds by eliminating prompts for Phantom’s 700,000 users. That could be critical in time-sensitive scenarios, like minting a non-fungible token (NFT) or executing a decentralized exchange (DEX) trade. Source
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An Asian cryptocurrency exchange’s funds have been compromised in a security breach.The Singapore-headquartered digital asset exchange KuCoin said in a statement that it detected large withdrawals of bitcoin and ethereum tokens to an unknown wallet beginning at 19:05 UTC time on Friday. In a live stream on 4:30 UTC time Saturday,
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