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The hacker responsible for the $196 million attack on Euler Finance has begun moving funds into crypto mixer Tornado Cash, only hours after a $1 million bounty was launched to uncover the hacker’s identity.Blockchain analytics firm PeckShield tweeted on March 16 that the exploiter behind the flash loan attack on
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The attack occurred after Tender.fi upgraded its price feed to relay data from a Chainlink pricing oracle as opposed to a time-weighted average price (TWAP). The code, which was audited by PeckShield, contained an error and returned a number with too many zeros behind it. This meant the attacker was
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The hacker behind the exploit of the decentralized finance lending platform Tender.fi has returned the stolen funds for a $97,000 bounty reward in Ether (ETH). The exploit was executed at 10:28 am UTC on March 7, with Tender.fi confirming the incident on Twitter soon after, citing “an unusual amount of borrows”
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An alleged ethical hacker has drained $1.59 million from the decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Tender.fi, leading the service to halt borrowing while it attempts to recoup its assets.Web3-focused smart contract auditor CertiK, and blockchain analyst Lookonchain, flagged an exploit that saw funds drained from the DeFi lending protocol on
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One of the wallets associated with the $50 million exploit of Uranium Finance in April 2021 appears to have awoken after 647 days of dormancy, with funds headed towards crypto mixer Tornado Cash. The sudden move was highlighted on Mar. 7 by cyber security firms PeckShield and CertiK on their
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Decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol CoW Swap recently suffered an attack, losing at least 550 BNB (BNB) in a contract exploit that approved fund transfers from the protocol.Blockchain surveyor MevRefund flagged the event and detected that the funds seemed to be moving away from CoW Swap. The MEV searcher warned the
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The hacker behind the $321 million Wormhole bridge attack has shifted a large chunk of stolen funds, with transaction data showing that $155 million worth of Ether (ETH) was transferred to a decentralized exchange (DEX) on Jan 23. The Wormhole hack was the third largest crypto hack in 2022, after
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Summary: Coinbase Director Conor Grogan spotted Ether transfers to the “FTX Accounts Drainer” with private notes on how to move the assets undetected.The hacker was advised to leverage less popular and more privacy-based crypto mixer protocols.The U.S. Justice Department launched an investigation into the matter after nearly $400 million was
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Authorities in Vietnam have caught and sentenced a hacker who stole money and data from a local cryptocurrency exchange. The man, who was arrested and charged for extorting the trading platform’s owner, has been ordered to return the money he misappropriated. Vietnamese Court Jails Hacker for Attacking Crypto Exchange Website A resident
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200 million Twitter users’ private information, including their email addresses, was put for sale after a breach exposed 400M users’ private information in the last week of December 2022.The hacker behind the December breach has earlier demanded $200,000 from Twitter in a bid to return the stolen data and warned
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