An ethical hacker, operating under the ENS name "c0ffeebabe.eth," has managed to recover 2,879 ETH (worth around $5.4 million) from the total assets lost during the recent Curve Finance exploit. DeFi protocol Curve Finance suffered a major hack on July 30, 2023. The hack was carried out in two stages. ...
Conic Finance, a DeFi protocol managed by Curve DEX, has suffered a significant exploit resulting in a hacker making away with 1700 ETH, valued at more than $3.2 million. Security experts from BlockSec revealed that the attacker exploited a reentrancy flaw within Conic Finance to drain funds from the protocol. ...
Rodeo Finance, a DeFi protocol, has suffered an exploit that resulted in a loss of $888,000 from its coffers. The attacker took advantage of a programming flaw in the protocol's Oracle, manipulated an asset's price, and stole more than 472 ETH. PeckShield described the exploit as a "ForceInvestment" hack. The ...
Sturdy Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, recently suffered a security breach that resulted in the loss of 442 ETH, equivalent to over $800,000. The breach was a result of a flaw in the protocol's price oracle, which allowed the hacker to exploit the vulnerability and drain funds from the ...
Cryptocurrency wallet provider MetaMask has denied claims that a wallet exploit was responsible for the theft of over 5,000 Ether from its users. The allegations emerged following a series of tweets by Taylor Monahan, creator of MyCrypto, on April 17, 2023. Recent reporting on @tayvano_’s thread has incorrectly claimed that ...
Bitrue cryptocurrency exchange today disclosed that it had been the victim of a hot wallet breach, resulting in the theft of several cryptocurrency assets valued at around $23 million. Bitrue has since responded by taking swift action to prevent further loss of funds and is conducting an investigation into the ...
Arbitrum's forthcoming "ARB" token airdrop seems to have attracted many scammers' attention, as the community has reported hundreds of phishing attempts to deceive cryptocurrency users. The Arbitrum Foundation, on March 16, 2023, announced that the airdrop was meant to distribute 10 billion governance tokens that would allow its holders to ...
General Bytes, Prague-based company that manufactures Bitcoin ATMs and has sold 15,000 units in over 149 countries, has shut down its cloud services due to a security vulnerability that allowed a hacker to access customers' hot wallets and steal private keys and passwords. In a patch release bulletin dated March ...
Euler Finance, an Ethereum-based lending protocol, was recently hacked for $196 million. Before this attack, the platform underwent ten consecutive audits over two years, and it was concluded that it had only a low risk of being attacked and no open problems. WazzCrypto, a Twitter user and victim of the ...
Just hours after a $1 million bounty was offered to identify the culprit behind the $196 million attack on Euler Finance, the hacker has begun moving the funds into the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash. #PeckShieldAlert @eulerfinance exploiter on the move ~1,000 $ETH into Tornado Cash through intermediary address 0xc66d...c9ahttps://t.co/LAkY66YpoF pic.twitter.com/0XhQV1nbgn ...
