South Korean crypto exchange GDAC hacked for nearly $14M
The exchange said that all deposits and withdrawals are temporarily suspended as it performs emergency server maintenance.
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Terra DeFi project Terraport suffers $2M hack days after launch
Terra users are losing another round of funds due to a breach on the new DeFi platform Terraport Finance, which launched on March...
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Community on SushiSwap exploit: The $3.3 hack is ‘weird’
A Twitter user called out SushiSwap and urged the platform to take steps to prevent incidents in the future.
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SushiSwap Exchange Suffers Major $3.3 Million Smart Contract Hack – Here's What Happened
Popular decentralized exchange (DEX) platform SushiSwap has suffered more than $3.3 million in losses after a hacker exploited a b...
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US President Joe Biden Extends Sanctions Against Russia, Has Argued Alternatives Would Involve Waging Third World War
U.S. President Joe Biden decided to extend the sanctions that the U.S. government enacted against Russia for one more year, arguin...
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Lawyer lays out his reasoning on why XRP is not a security
Lawyer Jeremy Hogan believes the United States Securites and Exchange Commission has failed to legally demonstrate that XRP is a s...
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SushiSwap approval bug leads to $3.3M exploit
Only users who have traded on the decentralized exchange in the last four days are apparently affected.
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Tucker Carlson Blames Recent De-Dollarization Movements on Russian Sanctions and US Dollar Weaponization
Tucker Carlson, host of Fox News and the “Tucker Carlson Tonight” show, analyzed the situation surrounding de-dollarization moveme...
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Paxful co-founders’ litigation cites misappropriation of funds, money laundering, U.S. sanctions evasion
A bitter dispute between Paxful's co-founders in Delaware courts may have led to the crypto marketplace's sudden closure.
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Euler team denies on-chain sleuth was a suspect in hack case
The investigator claimed to be targeted as a suspect because they maintained a crypto security repo on GitHub.
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US Treasury Report Warns of Defi’s Threat to National Security, Authors Conclude Fiat Is Used in Illicit Finance More Than Crypto
The U.S. Treasury has released a 42-page report assessing the risks of decentralized finance (defi). The report states that specif...
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North Korean Hackers Target Cryptocurrency Firms in Massive 3CX Supply Chain Hack – Here's What Happened
Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has warned of a new form of attack on cryptocurrency firms, which it says is carried out with...
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Euler Finance Exploiter Returns All ‘Recoverable Funds’ From $200M Hack
Euler Finance has since revoked a $1 million award for new information that would lead to the hackers behind the $200 million expl...
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Allbridge exploiter returns most of the $573K stolen in attack
An exploit resulted in around $573,000 in crypto looted from Allbridge, but the hacker has now seemingly accepted the offer of a “...
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INX security token platform gets its first token from a public company, Greenbriar
INX security tokens exist on Ethereum and use the ERC-1404 standard.
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Sandwich trading bots lose bread and butter in $25M exploit
The CertiK team told Cointelegraph that this is one of the biggest exploits they’ve seen on MEV bots since September 2022.
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Buterin weighs in on zk-EVMs’ impact on decentralization and security
Vitalik Buterin has weighed the impacts of the addition of zk-EVMs at the protocol level, saying it could speed up the verificatio...
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Suspected Brazilian Crypto Scam Firm Workers Caught on CCTV on Way to Empty HQ
“Employees” at Brazilian company at center of crypto scam allegations have been filmed apparently on their way to remove evidence...
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