How an Ethereum Bot Used Uniswap to Save $5.4 Million From Curve Exploit
The MEV bot’s white-hat operator returned the funds to Curve Finance, which may have otherwise been lost to malicious hackers.
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Curve Finance Vulnerability Exposes $100M+ Worth of Crypto; CRV Token Plummets
A vulnerability in the popular decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance has caused funds to be drained from a number of...
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DeFi Contagion? Curve Finance Exploit Ripples Across Industry
Smart contracts built using older Vyper versions are vulnerable to hacks, according to the programming language’s developers.
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White Hat Hacker Recovers $5.4 Million For DeFi Platform Curve Finance Amid Recent Exploit
An ethical hacker has recovered 2,879 ETH worth around $5.4 million for the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance am...
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Upbit Stops CRV Withdrawal as Curve Finance Loses Millions of Dollars to Exploit
Upbit, a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, has temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals of CRV, the governance token of...
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CEXs Saving DeFI? Chainlink Rescues Curve Finance Amid $100 Million Vyper Vulnerability
A major vulnerability led to the collapse of Curve's liquidity pools, but intervention from Chainlink price feeds mitigated the lo...
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CEX price feed prevents Curve price from collapsing amid $100M vulnerability
A vulnerability in the Vyper programming language widely used by DeFi protocols like Curve Finance led to the exploit of multiple...
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Ethical hacker retrieves $5.4M for Curve Finance amid exploit
Twitter accounts impersonating Curve Finance have also started to promote a fake refund scheme, further targeting victims of the h...
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DeFi Exchange Curve Finance Confirms Various Ethereum Pools Hacked
The Curve Finance team has confirmed which pools were affected in the latest multi-million dollar exploit due to a Vyper vulnerabi...
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Borneo authorities seize illegal crypto miners running off stolen power
A Malaysian energy supplier uncovered an illegal cryptocurrency mining operation stealing power from the local grid on the island...
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Ethereum logs $1M MEV block reward amid Curve Finance exploit
The highest recently generated block reward was 584 ETH, created by a MEV bot front-running transactions during the DeFi chaos.
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Vyper vulnerability exposes DeFi ecosystem to stress tests
A number of pools using Vyper have been exploited due to a malfunctioning reentrancy lock that potentially exposes all pools with...
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Breaking: Curve Finance pools exploited by over $47M due to reentrancy vulnerability
Several stable pools on Curve Finance using Vyper were exploited on July 30. Vyper versions 0.2.15, 0.2.16 and 0.3.0 are vulnerabl...
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Worldcoin releases audit reports showing resolved security issues
The proof of humanity protocol released security audit reports claiming that most issues were fixed or mitigated.
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Introducing 'Standard on Security' Is Key to Thwarting DeFi Hacks: OpenZepplin Security Lead
A blockchain architect expert told Decrypt that security in the DeFi industry demands a higher level of scrutiny from all particip...
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Tetris Token Rockets Up 100,000% in 24 Hours But Experts Say It's a Scam and This Lesser Known Crypto May Explode Next
In the latest DEX moon shot to take markets by storm, new entrant Tetris token has surged an eye-watering +300,000% just hours aft...
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Pro-XRP lawyer Jeremy Hogan’s scam tweet bonanza finally falls silent
For the better part of the last four days, hackers used Hogan’s account to promote fraudulent XRP giveaway scams.
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North Korea's Lazarus Group Suspected in $37 Million Hack on CoinsPaid
North Korean hackers at the infamous Lazarus Group are suspected to be behind a $37 million attack on crypto payment system CoinsP...
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