Spree of multimillion dollar hacks creates booming business for blockchain security experts
Written by Tonya Riley Jul 26, 2022 |...
Hackers steal more than $600M from Ronin blockchain used to play Axie Infinity
Written by Suzanne Smalley Mar 29, 2022 |...
Losses to cryptocurrency scams top $1B, FTC reports
Written by Tonya Riley Jun 3, 2022 |...
AscendEX loses $80M following ERC-20, BSC, Polygon hot wallet compromise
Crypto trading platform AscendEX suffered a loss of $77.7 million in a hot wallet compromise that allowed hackers to access and transfer tokens hosted over the Ethereum, Binance Smart...
7 DeFi protocol hacks in Feb see $21 million in funds stolen: DefiLlama
Reentrancy, price oracle attacks and exploits across seven protocols caused the decentralized finance (DeFi) space to bleed at least $21 million in crypto in February. According to DeFi data analytics platform...
FBI issues alert over cybercriminal exploits targeting DeFi
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a fresh warning for investors in decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, which have been targeted with $1.6 billion in exploits...
Report: Illicit cryptocurrency activity reached all-time high in 2022
Written by Tonya Riley Jan 12, 2023 |...
The Justice Department is ramping up its crackdown on money mules
Written by Tonya Riley Dec 3, 2021 |...
Aurora pays $6M bug bounty to ethical security hacker through Immunefi
On Tuesday, Ethereum (ETH) bridging and scaling solution Aurora announced it had paid out a $6 million bounty to ethical security hacker pwning.eth, who discovered a critical vulnerability in...