Floating Point Group, a crypto brokerage firm, reported on June 12 that it has suspended trading, withdrawals, and deposits after a hack on June 11. The entire loss from the assault, according to FPG’s estimations, is between $15 and $20 million. Moreover, after identifying the security compromise, FPG reportedly locked
Sturdy Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, has declared a $100,000 bounty to the hacker who discovered the protocol’s vulnerability. If the attacker accepts the offer, the lending platform’s team won’t take any more action. On June 12th, over $800,000 worth of digital assets were stolen from the DeFi platform.
The Sturdy Finance DeFi protocol lost 442 ETH, or over $800,000 at the time of writing, due to a hack. An intruder drained funds from the protocol by exploiting a vulnerability that allowed them to manipulate a flawed pricing oracle. PeckShield, a blockchain security company, notified Sturdy Finance on June
Multiple Twitter accounts belonging to key figures in the cryptocurrency industry have fallen victim to a group of scammers. By leveraging the compromised accounts, these scammers have propagated phishing scams, resulting in the theft of approximately $1 million in crypto funds. Over the past few weeks we have seen 8+
North Korea’s most renowned cyber-hacking organization has been linked to a cryptocurrency mixer where illicit proceeds from the $35 million Atomic Wallet attack have been circulating. Elliptic, a provider of blockchain compliance analytics, said on June 5 that its Investigations Team has linked crypto mixer Sinbad.io to the theft of
A late birthday present was given to John Deaton on Saturday, who represents over 76,000 XRP token holders in the litigation between Ripple and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Hackers gained access to Deaton’s Twitter account and pushed a cryptocurrency with an almost nonexistent market cap called $LAW
Users on Twitter have reported losing their entire cryptocurrency holdings after using Atomic Wallet, suggesting that the wallet has been compromised. Since Atomic is a non-custodial decentralized wallet, its users bear full responsibility for their funds. Atomic’s team on Twitter stated: “We have received reports of wallets being compromised. We
Patricia, a Nigerian platform for buying and selling cryptocurrencies and gift cards, has had a security compromise, forcing swift action to protect its consumers. The platform has temporarily disabled withdrawals as a security measure. The organization disclosed a security vulnerability that resulted in the loss of Bitcoin and Nigerian naira.
An attacker used a fraudulent contract to get access to thousands of votes and take complete control of the popular cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash. Paradigm’s web3 research analyst @samczsun was the first to notice the problem over the weekend. According to a tweet by user samczsun, the attacker claimed to
The decentralized cryptocurrency blender Tornado Cash already had difficulties before an attacker took complete control of the governance by submitting a fraudulent proposal. An attacker gained 1.2 million votes for a fraudulent proposal at 3:25 PM ET on May 20. Because the proposition obtained over 700,000 valid votes, the attacker
