by COINS NEWS - 1 year ago
The two primary ways to get hacked in crypto are: (1) giving away your seed phrase to a third party who can access your wallet, and (2) connecting your wallet to a malicious site, giving it the authorization to make transactions on your behalf. When...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Cybersecurity firm Mandiant has “graduated” a new group of hackers who finance state goals and their own existence with the help of crypto laundering. The North Korean...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
Hackers have reportedly stolen $500,000 worth of tokens from Arbitrum’s airdrop by using vanity addresses to redirect the airdropped tokens to their own addresses. The use of vanity addresses to claim crypto assets has been known to compromise the se...
Bitcoin News / Google News Bitcoin - 1 year ago
Hackers Steal Over $1.6 Million in Crypto from General Bytes Bitcoin ATMs Using Zero-Day Flaw& & The Hacker News
More / Etherum Reddit - 1 year ago
A few days ago I posted here that my TrustWallet got hacked. Maybe some of you have seen that. Deleted the post by now due to privacy reasons but they stole like 10k$ in ETH, ERC20 and ETH L2s. The reason for the hack was most likely the flawed TustW...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Though crypto hacks have been prominent since the blockchain industry emerged, blockchain security firms are working hard to bring security and transparency to the sector. This time, BlockSec, a smart-contract auditing firm dedicated to building a se...
by COINS NEWS - 1 year ago
One of the most important rules of crypto transactions that are based on the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (BTC, ETH, lots of others) is that the nonce, a one-time random value that is included in the calculation of the signature, must b...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Jessy, the name behind Jessy’s Hacker House, helped organize four rental houses in Denver for "genuine scrappy" individuals looking for networking opportunities and more....
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Jessy, the name behind Jessy’s Hacker House, helped organize four rental houses in Denver for "genuine scrappy" individuals looking for networking opportunities and more....
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 1 year ago
One of the largest is the flash loan reentrancy attack on Platypus Finance.
DefiLlama has highlighted seven noteworthy hacks in February.
The first hack in February was the price oracle attack on BonqDAO.
According to data from DeFi aggregator Defi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Following several reports of hacks in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space last year, DeFi still seems to remain the main target for bad actors in the industry. According to data from DefiLlama, millions of dollars have been siphoned from the DeFi...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
The suspected hackers behind the $6 million exploit of Lendhub have moved more than half of their ill-gotten gains to the sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash. The on-chain intelligence firm Beosin reported that a total of 3,515.4 ETH, currently wort...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
As Web3 and crypto go mainstream, several decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms have fallen victim to hacking exploitations, losing millions of dollars in assets to criminals. While DeFi projects seek ways to avoid this menace, the crypto platform L...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
According to a recent announcement by Oasis Network on February 24th, the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform had collaborated with whitehat hackers to recover funds that had been stolen from Solana’s Wormhole bridge.
On February 2nd, Wormhol...