Latest DeFi exploits show audits are no guarantee
Two recent catastrophic exploits of two DeFi protocols differed in many ways, yet shared one commonality — both were audited…
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Fan mail and ETH tips sent to KyberSwap hacker who stole $48M
Some victims of the $48 million KyberSwap hack are no doubt waiting anxiously for the DeFi platform’s attacker to make…
Dydx V3 hit by ‘targeted attack,’ linked to YFI price manipulation
Around $9 million in dYdX v3’s insurance fund, roughly 40% of its total v3 funds, was used to process liquidations…
Raft Finance floats user bailout plan after odd exploit
Raft Finance experienced a severe security breach on Friday when a hacker managed to exploit a vulnerability in the protocol,…
ChainLight saved zkSync Era from $1.9B exploit
Blockchain security audit firm ChainLight identified a vulnerability in the zkSync Era protocol that, if exploited, could have led to…
Telegram trading tool Unibot suffers exploit
Unibot, a well-known Telegram bot for Uniswap trading, suffered an approval vulnerability on Tuesday, resulting in a loss of tokens…
DAO on Solana loses $230K after ‘attack proposal’ goes unnoticed
The legwork behind DeFi hacks can be quite sophisticated. But an attacker targeting Synthetify last week only had to vote…
Security firms track FTX exploiter through Bitcoin mixer
A significant portion of the funds from a nearly $500 million exploit are currently being laundered via a mixer service…
DeFi protocol Platypus suffers second flash loan attack in 9 months
Platypus, the Avalanche-native StableSwap protocol, suspended all of its pools on Thursday after detecting a flash loan exploit on the…
Balancer website hijack puts users at risk
DeFi liquidity protocol Balancer is staring down yet another security vulnerability, this time targeting its user interface. The platform issued…