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Attacks on Poloniex, HTX, Heco bridge, KyberSwap, and Kronos Research earned hackers $290 million, with a week to go until November 2023 closes. As of Nov. 23, crypto hackers reportedly stole a combined $290 million from five major heists where at least $10 million was illegally ferried from each protocol. The
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance is extending a bug bounty offer to anyone who is able to identify the exploiter responsible for draining over $61 million from its pools on July 30. Curve and other protocols affected by the attack offered a 10% bug bounty to the hacker on Aug.
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With the whole event surrounding the Platypus protocol, the core team has said the hack did not prevent the daily activities of the platform. The two suspected Platypus Protocol exploiters have been arrested by the French National Police. The police department gave the confirmation of the arrest as announced via
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The suspected actors behind the $6 million exploit of decentralized finance lending protocol Lendhub have just sent more than half of their ill-gotten gains from January into sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash.Blockchain security firms PeckShield and Beosin alerted their respective followers to the movement of funds on Feb. 27, noting
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The online crypto community has discovered a new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot that can either be used to warn developers of smart contracts vulnerabilities or teach hackers how to exploit them. ChatGPT, a chatbot tool built by AI research company OpenAI, was released on Nov. 30 and was designed to interact
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Acala’s native stablecoin, aUSD, came close to regaining its peg to the U.S. dollar after the Polkadot-based decentralized finance (DeFi) platform burned over 1.2 billion aUSD tokens that were minted by exploiters over the weekend who took advantage a bug in one of the platform’s liquidity pools. Source
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Close to 90% of addresses taking part in the $186 million Nomad Bridge hack last week have been identified as “copycats,” making off with a total of $88 million worth of tokens on Aug. 1, a new report has revealed.In an Aug. 10 Coinbase blog, authored by Peter Kacherginsky, Coinbase's
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BAE Systems, Inc., a United States-based contractor that provides support and service solutions for defense, intelligence, and civilian systems, is seeking cryptocurrency exploiters.BAE Systems listed an open position for so called cryptocurrency exploiters on employment-oriented platform LinkedIn. Those in the position are set to support a company’s client’s operational
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One of the world's largest defense contractors is seeking "cryptocurrency exploiters" to support a client based in Washington, D.C.Advertised on LinkedIn, the Virginia-based arm of BAE Systems is searching for candidates who can "demonstrate proficiency in cryptocurrency" and can move to the U.S. capital to "support a client’s operational requirements."Successful
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