Radiant Capital, a cross-chain lending protocol backed by Binance Labs, fell victim to a serious cyber attack. It resulted in losses exceeding $50 million in cryptocurrency On October 16, 2024. This incident underscores the significant vulnerabilities within decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. Attackers gained control of the private keys belonging to
The defunct crypto exchange Mt. Gox creditors have reported numerous brute force attempts on their accounts, evoking the fear of a potential cyberattack. The Mt. Gox creditor subreddit has been filled with screenshots from users displaying multiple login attempts on their accounts, in the last 24 hours. While others reported
The crypto sector continues to face an alarming wave of cyberattacks, with a recent breach involving the Bedrock protocol adding to the growing list of DeFi exploits. Ten hours ago, Cyvers Alert, a digital asset monitoring platform, flagged a suspicious transaction linked to Bedrock, a DeFi multi-asset liquid restaking protocol.
CoinSwitch, an Indian Cryptocurrency exchange is suing its rival, WazirX, to recover $9.6 million in assets that have been stuck on WazirX’s platform since a $230 million cyberattack in July. CoinSwitch announced that legal action on X had failed after multiple attempts to resolve the issue directly. These trapped assets
A significant cyberattack has hit the blockchain platform Nexera. Theft of 47 million NXRA tokens occurred as a consequence of this security compromise. The blockchain security company Cyvers Alert uncovered this flaw when it saw an unusual transaction utilizing Nexera’s proxy contract. An unidentified address gained control of Nexera’s proxy
The European Investment Bank (EIB), the world’s largest multilateral lender, has been the target of a cyberattack. Russian hackers are expected to be the suspects who threaten to bring down the Western financial system days later. Moreover, earlier today, the pro-Russian Killnet hackers claimed on their telegram that they had
Decentralized finance (DeFi) crypto exchange dYdX restored its version 3.0 website after a DNS hijacking attempt on July 23. The team restored the website three hours after announcing the compromise. https://t.co/Ym1dFLLOwx website has been recovered by dYdX Trading Inc. 🙏 Please note that your machine may still be caching the
In a concerning repeat of past events, a wallet labeled “Fake_Phishing189983” has transferred 600,000 USDC to the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit. This same wallet fell victim to a phishing attack 62 days ago, resulting in the loss of $1.58 million, also sent to Bybit. The recurrence of such incidents highlights the
According to security company SlowMist, LinkedIn users are being targeted by the North Korean-backed cyber-hacker group Lazarus Group, who is pretending to be an executive member of the Chinese blockchain asset management business Fenbushi Capital. A screenshot uploaded on X by SlowMist’s chief information security officer shows the con artist
Resonance Security, the first of its kind full-spectrum cybersecurity provider that’s transforming Web2 and Web3 security from the ground up, has announced the V1 release of its platform following a successful, one year beta testing phase. The full-feature release offers clients a never-before-seen level of cybersecurity protection against existing and
