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Bored Ape NFT Collector Loses $2.2M in Phishing Scam
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Polygon Quietly Patched Vulnerability That Put $24 Billion in MATIC at Risk
Disaster was narrowly averted by DeFi protocol Polygon—but one attacker was able to make off with nearly $2 million in MATIC using...
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Polygon Justifies Its Quiet Hard-Fork Citing 'Critical Vulnerability'
Earlier this month, the popular Ethereum (ETH) layer-2 solution Polygon (MATIC) carried out a hard-fork, though in silence and wit...
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Polygon ’s Side Of The Story: Hard-Fork Resolved A “Critical Vulnerability”
The Polygon team promised an explanation and here it is. A few weeks ago, the Ethereum Layer 2 network hard-forked their blockchai...
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North Korea Views its USD 1.7B Crypto Hack Hauls as a ‘Long-term Investment’
North Korea “has hacked USD 1.7 billion worth of crypto from exchanges,” reports have claimed -and experts say that Pyongyang is g...
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Blockchain Safety First: Poloniex Recovers Bitfinex Stolen BTC
Some of the main concerns the crypto era faces are safety and security. The great innovation of digital assets offers many benefit...
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Solana-Based Hacked Monkey Kingdom Has a Phishing Lesson for NFT Buyers
Solana (SOL)-based non-fungible token (NFT) project Monkey Kingdom had its official Discord server hacked on Tuesday during a pres...
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Hong Kong NFT project Monkey Kingdom loses $1.3M in phishing hack, launches compensation fund
The exploited nonfungible token project is looking to make things right before the holidays with the help of a compensation fund.
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Santa Hackathon? Visor Finance Marks 7th Hack in December
Liquidity management decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Visor Finance is the latest victim of a DeFi hack, with the protocol es...
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US Goes to Court to Recover $154M Stolen From Sony, Converted to Bitcoin
The Department of Justice has filed a civil forfeiture complaint to return over $150 million stolen from Sony and converted to Bit...
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Bent Finance confirms pool exploit, advises investors to withdraw funds
Bent Finance proactively advised investors to withdraw funds and plans to reimburse losses “one way or another.”
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DeFi Platform Grim Finance Hacked, Lost $30 Million in Crypto
Another decentralized finance (DeFi) platform has fallen victim to a cyberattack, this time its Grim Finance. On Sunday, the Yield...
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DeFi Platform Grim Finance Hacked, Lost $30 Million in Crypto
Another decentralized finance (DeFi) platform has fallen victim to a cyberattack, this time its Grim Finance. On Sunday, the Yield...
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DeFi protocol Grim Finance lost $30M in 5x reentrancy hack
An apparent security flaw in the Grim Finance protocol allowed the attacker to fake five additional deposits.
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Grim Finance Hacked for $30 Million in Fantom Tokens
Grim Finance is the latest DeFi protocol to be hit by an exploit.
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Vulcan Forged Platform Suffers Security Breach, 96 Wallets Compromised
Vulcan Forged, a gaming and NFT platform, suffered a security breach that allowed attackers to gain control of some cryptocurrency...
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