Rare Bears Discord phishing attack nabs $800K in NFTs
Recently launched nonfungible token (NFT project), “Rare Bears,” was hit with an attack, after a hacker posted a phishing link in the project‘s Discord channel, stealing nearly $800,000 in...
Lawmakers, experts debate whether fears about evasion of cryptocurrency sanctions are overblown
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‘Unlucky:’ Agave and Hundred Finance DeFi protocols exploited for $11M
A hacker has made off with approximately $11 million in wrapped ETH (wETH), wrapped BTC (wBTC), Chainlink (LINK), USD Coin (USDC), Gnosis (GNO) and wrapped XDAI (wxDAI) after using...
Truth or fiction? Popular former hacker claims to have $7B in BTC
A former blackhat hacker who goes by the name Gummo online claims to have amassed around $7 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC). Despite a flood of positive comments and...
Deus Finance exploit: Hackers get away with $3M worth of DAI and Ether
Multi-token decentralized finance (DeFi) marketplace Deus Finance has become the latest victim of an exploit resulting in over $3 million losses in the Dai (DAI) and Ether (ETH).DeFi analytic firm...
ESPN baseball reporter‘s Twitter account hacked by NFT scammers
In what ESPN Major League Baseball reporter Jeff Passan called the “biggest news day” of his life, scammers hijacked his Twitter account to promote a nonfungible token (NFT) giveaway....
Opensea phishing scandal reveals a security need across the NFT landscape
Despite the ongoing volatility plaguing the digital asset sector, one niche that has undoubtedly continued to flourish is the nonfungible token (NFT) market. This is made evident by the...
Security firms seek to make it more difficult for scammers to get away with...
The rise of community-oriented blockchain security companies may be making it more difficult for alleged bad actors to get away without a trace.Early Wednesday, CertiK issued a community alert...
Journalist alleges Mimo Capital co-founder was behind 2016 exploit of The DAO: Report
Laura Shin, a cryptocurrency journalist and host of the Unchained Podcast, claimed to have discovered the identity of the individual behind an exploit which drained more than 3.6 million...
Mintable pledges to return NFTs stolen in OpenSea exploit
Major nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea announced a service upgrade on Saturday requesting that users migrate their listed assets from the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain to a newly created smart contract.However,...
