$25M Sophisticated Ethereum Blockchain Exploit Leads to Arrests in US
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted two brothers for wire fraud and money laundering. They allegedly exploited the E...
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Solana Meme Coin Marketplace Pump.fun Suffers $80 Million Exploit
Pump.fun, a Solana-based marketplace and deployment tool for meme coins, has acknowledged suffering an exploit dealing with the bo...
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Pump.fun hit by exploit, nearly 2,000 SOL stolen
Pump.fun exploit leads to a loss of 2,000 SOL from Solana's meme coin marketplace, with the attacker leveraging flash loans. The p...
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Binance develops ‘antidote’ to address poisoning scams after $68M exploit
Binance’s new algorithm has already helped detect over 13.4 million spoofed blockchain addresses on BNB and over 1.68 million on E...
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US Lawmakers Urge Treasury Action on Russian Crypto Exchange Sanctions Evasion
U.S. Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI), along with Congressmen Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA), sent a letter to U.S....
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Feds Arrest Crypto Bros for 'Attacking Ethereum' With MEV Exploit
Two brothers have been charged with allegedly "attacking Ethereum" via a MEV exploit that let them swipe $25 million within second...
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Worldcoin beefs up security by open-sourcing biometric data system
Worldcoin Foundation open sources a secure multi-party computation (SMPC) system to enhance biometric data protection and confirme...
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$20M exploit cripples Sonne Finance, hacker in no mood for negotiation
Sonne Finance halted operations after a hack drained $20 million in cryptocurrencies, including WETH and USDC. Efforts to recover...
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Defi Protocol Sonne Finance Reports Major Security Breach, $20 Million Lost to Hackers
Sonne Finance, a decentralized liquidity market protocol, was hit by a cyberattack, with initial losses of $3 million in USD Coin...
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Will Ethereum Be Declared a Security By the SEC Next Week?
Even as a deadline looms for spot Ethereum ETF applications, a firm answer on its regulatory status seems “unlikely,” analysts say...
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Alex bridge on BNB Smart Chain drained of $4.3M after suspicious upgrade — CertiK
The deployer account changed an Alex contract’s implementation address, and multiple tokens were subsequently drained from its bri...
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Tether freezes $5.2M in USDT linked to phishing scams
Since it launched, Tether has frozen over $1 billion worth of assets linked to illicit activities after requests from law enforcem...
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Stolen Poloniex Ether worth $53M never made it back to the exchange
The Poloniex hacker moved over 17,800 Ether from six different wallets into a single Tornado Cash address.
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Proactive Detection by Certik Saves Wormhole Bridge From Potential $5 Million Hack
Certik, a security firm, prevented a potentially disastrous $5 million exploit in the Wormhole cross-chain bridge by identifying a...
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Binance Kazakhstan Secures ISO Certifications for Security and Privacy
Binance Kazakhstan has been awarded the ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certifications, marking significant recognition for its robust inf...
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CertiK discovered $5M security flaw in Wormhole bridge on Aptos
A flaw in the bridge could have allowed an attacker to produce fake token transfers, but it was discovered and patched before anyo...
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What is phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) and how to defend against it?
Phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) makes it easy for cybercriminals to launch sophisticated attacks. Here’s how PhaaS targets crypto us...
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WBTC thief returns $71 million worth of stolen funds
On-chain transactions leading up to the return suggest this wasn’t a white hat hacker but a malicious actor who intended to steal...
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