On-chain data shows that another $46 million of stolen assets has been migrated from the hacker’s wallet, indicating that the stolen cryptocurrency from one of the industry’s greatest attacks is on the move again. In February of last year, an exploit of Wormhole’s token bridge led to the third-largest crypto
To counter cryptocurrency theft and cyberattacks from North Korea, South Korea has declared its first set of unilateral restrictions. As reported by the Seoul Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Four North Korean people and seven firms have been blacklisted for their suspected participation in cyberattacks and crypto theft. Notable people including
To the tune of $3.6 million in cryptocurrency, an assault on the reentrancy vulnerability of the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol dForce has resulted in the theft of funds. Curve Finance is an automated market maker (AMM) platform. That uses the Arbitrum and Optimism blockchains, and its vault was the target
A vulnerability in the smart contracts underlying the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol CoW Swap has resulted in the theft of around 551 BNB worth around $181,600. The attacker reportedly added a wallet address as a “solver” of CoW Swap. And then used a transaction to authorize DAI transfers to SwapGuard
On Thursday, the fundamental contract of Orion Protocol, a liquidity aggregator for CeFi and DeFi exchanges, was compromised in both its Ethereum and Binance Smart Chains (BSC) deployments. More than 1,700 Ethereum, or more than $3 million, were stolen by the hacker. On Thursday the breach was feasible due to
An estimated $120 million was taken from the protocol of a tiny decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Due to a pretty large smart contract vulnerability. On February 1st, BonqDAO informed its Twitter followers of an oracle attack that compromised the Bonq protocol. And enabled the exploiter to influence the price of
The crypto market witnessed its first major cyber attack of the year in the form of a social media hack negatively impacting the NFT project Azuki. On January 27, the Twitter account of Azuki, a well-known non-fungible token (NFT) project, compromised. Enabling hackers to seize USD coins worth over $750,000.
The wormhole bridge exploiters are back in action. While tracking down the so-called wallet address of the hacker, a brief amount of Ethereum was transferred on 23rd Jan of 2022. Two interesting transactions on the list, one is presumably between exploiter and exploiter 2, which sums around 1,889 ETH with
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has revealed the chief culprits of Harmony’s Horizon Bridge Hack. It confirmed two notorious cyber actor groups – Lazarus Group and APT-38, as the responsible agents of the $100M theft in the January 23 press release. Reportedly, these two groups are known to
Nikhil Gopalani, COO of RTFKT reported a hack of NFTs. As of December 2021, RTFKT, a next-generation crypto brand creating waves in the digital wearable industry and producing content in collaboration with artist Takashi Murakami, was acquired by Nike. On Monday, a fraudster apparently launched a phishing assault on Gopalani,
