Anonymous hacker served with restraining order via NFT
Law firms Holland & Knight and Bluestone have served a defendant in a hacking case with a temporary restraining order through a nonfungible token, marking the first known legal...
FBI takes down dark web marketplace for U.S. citizen personal data
Written by Tonya Riley Jun 7, 2022 |...
Maiar decentralized crypto exchange goes offline after bug discovery
The Maiar Exchange, a decentralized exchange (DEX) native to the Elrond blockchain, has been temporarily taken offline after an attacker utilized an exploit and made off with roughly $113...
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...
Yuga Labs’ BAYC, OtherSide Discord groups breached, over 145 ETH stolen
Yuga Labs, the creator of two of the most popular ape-themed nonfungible token (NFT) offerings — Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and OtherSide — witnessed yet another orchestrated phishing...
Losses to cryptocurrency scams top $1B, FTC reports
Written by Tonya Riley Jun 3, 2022 |...
DeFi isn’t dead, it just needs to fix these 3 critical problems
The persistent challenges faced by decentralized finance have been well documented by a handful of analysts and the recent collapse of the Terra ecosystem re-enforced the fact that something is critically...
Is there a secure future for cross-chain bridges?
The plane touches down and comes to a halt. Heading to passport control, one of the passengers stops at a vending machine to buy a bottle of soda —...
Senate report criticizes feds’ approach to ransomware investigations
Written by Suzanne Smalley May 24, 2022 |...
Targeted phishing scam nets $438K in crypto and NFTs from hacked Beeple account
Digital artist and popular nonfungible token (NFT) creator Mike Winkelmann, more commonly known as Beeple, had his Twitter account hacked on Sunday as part of a phishing scam.Harry Denley,...
