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
Over $6 million worth of the stablecoin DEI used by the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol DEUS Finance was stolen. PeckShield, a blockchain security company, claims that on May 5 a hacker took advantage of a flaw in the BNB Smart Chain (BSC). More than $1.3 million was stolen in a
Lending protocol on Polygon and Polygon zkEVM, 0VIX, purportedly exploited to the tune of $2 million. Multiple stablecoins, including Ethereum and Polygon’s native MATIC token, as well as Aavegotchi’s staked vGHST token, may be used as collateral thanks to this protocol. Aavegotchi is a blockchain-based game that takes inspiration from
CertiK, a blockchain security company, and Merlin, a decentralized exchange (DEX) powered by zkSync, are collaborating on a proposal to compensate consumers whose funds were stolen in a recent hack. On Thursday, Merlin disclosed that the incident—widely interpreted as an exploit—was actually a rug pull. It was done by a
On April 26th, a hacker stole $1.82 million from the decentralized exchange Merlin. PeckShield and other members of the community have brought to light the exchange’s exploitation and provided the addresses of the exploiters. The funds were transferred from zkSync to Ethereum in the form of USDC tokens. #PeckShieldAlert Our
Apple released new security and software updates for smartphones and Macs in fear of attacks from crypto phishers. Kaspersky’s report on the vulnerabilities and potential lack of protection made Apple take this measure. Updates to iOS 16.4.1 and macOS 13.3.1 address the two vulnerabilities. CVE-2023-28205 and CVE-2023-28206. Both of these
