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Team Finance Exploited for $14.5M. Attacker Keeps 10% as a Bug Bounty
3 min read On October 27th, DeFi project Team Finance announced that they had just been alerted about an exploit on its protocol. They said they were investigating the incident and ‘working to analyze and remedy the situation.’ They also requested the exploiter to contact them for a potential bug bounty payment. Attacker Used 1.76…
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Phishing Scammer Steals $1M in ETH and NFTs in a Day, Remains Active
4 min read In late October, on-chain investigator and crypto Twitter community member @ZachXBT notified his followers that a phishing scammer known as Monkey Drainer had stolen the equivalent of 700 ETH worth around $1 million at the time and several NFTs in 24 hours. Tweet from @zachxbt, Source: Twitter One victim of Monkey Drainer…
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What to Expect With Elon Musk as ‘Chief Twit’ at Twitter
3 min read Elon Musk is officially the new owner of Twitter. The billionaire entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of SpaceX, CEO of Tesla, Founder of the Boring Company, and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI is now the ‘Chief Twit’ according to a recent update of his Twitter bio. To mark the event…
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FTX to Compensate 3Commas Phishing Victims up to $6M.
< 1 minute The founder and CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), announced on October 24th via Twitter that the exchange would compensate users of the crypto exchange affected by the recent elaborate 3Commas-related phishing attack. Mr. Bankman-Fried capped the compensation at $6 million and clarified that it was a ‘one-time thing’ which would not set ‘a…
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FTX to Compensate 3Commas Phishing Victims up to $6M
3 min read The founder and CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), announced on October 24th via Twitter that the exchange would compensate users of the crypto exchange affected by the recent elaborate 3Commas-related phishing attack. Mr. Bankman-Fried capped the compensation at $6 million and clarified that it was a ‘one-time thing’ which would not…
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How To Configure Your Devices for Privacy Protection
5 min read The electronic devices we use to go about our daily lives increasingly rely on the internet to function and provide real-time updates to information. Most apps and widgets on mobile devices and personal computers constantly send and receive data via the web to efficiently serve our needs. The same applies when venturing…
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Personal Data Breaches In The Blockchain Industry Are On The Rise
4 min read Until recently, cryptocurrency users and traders were generally concerned that their favorite centralized or decentralized platform would one day become the victim of an exploit, and their hard-earned digital assets would be at the mercy of hackers. The Axie Infinity hack in late March shook the crypto industry and the entire financial…
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Why Celsius ‘Doxed’ Over 600k of its Customers
4 min read The crypto-verse was shocked when news broke that the now-bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network had published a 14,500-page document detailing every one of its users’ full names alongside the types and amounts of transactions they carried out on the platform. The data included crypto holdings, deposits, withdrawals, interest earnings, and other sensitive…
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BNB Chain Lost $100M To a Hack — What Went Wrong?
< 1 minute Early October 7th, CZ announced via Twitter that the BNB Smart Chain was experiencing an exploit on its cross-chain bridge, BSC Token Hub, that had resulted in the minting and transfer of extra BNB. The BNB Chain team soon published a blog post explaining that the attacker had managed to carry out ‘sophisticated forging of the…
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BNB Chain Lost $100M To a Hack – What Went Wrong?
3 min read Early October 7th, CZ announced via Twitter that the BNB Smart Chain was experiencing an exploit on its cross-chain bridge, BSC Token Hub, that had resulted in the minting and transfer of extra BNB. Attacker Forged Proofs that Allowed them to Mint 2M BNB The BNB Chain team soon published a blog…
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Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) on Ethereum 2.0
5 min read Ethereum’s successful Merge between its mainnet on the now obsolete proof-of-work chain and the Beacon Chain of its new proof-of-stake Consensus layer (Ethereum 2.0) marked the first significant step of a series of upgrades intended to improve the network in terms of scalability and decentralization. The main goal of the Merge was…
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SEC Charges Hydrogen Tech. and its Former CEO for Market Manipulation
3 min read On September 28th, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it was charging The Hydrogen Technology Corporation, its former CEO, Michael Ross Kane, and the CEO of Moonwalkers Trading Limited for their roles in carrying out the sale of an unregistered securities offering of the Hydro Tokens. The SEC…