What is ethical hacking, and how does it work?
Ethical hacking, also known as “white hat” hacking, is the process of identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in a computer system or network in order to assess its security and...
Hedera confirms exploit on mainnet led to theft of service tokens
Hedera, the team behind distributed ledger Hedera Hashgraph, has confirmed a smart contract exploit on the Hedera Mainnet that has led to the theft of several liquidity pool tokens.Hedera...
DeFi lender Tender.fi suffers exploit, white hat hacker returns funds
This story is updated with new information to reflect the fact that the white hacker has since returned the funds to Tender.fi.An ethical hacker has drained $1.59 million from...
Hacker returns stolen funds to Tender.fi, gets $97K bounty reward
The hacker behind the exploit of the decentralized finance lending platform Tender.fi has returned the stolen funds for a $97,000 bounty reward in Ether (ETH). The exploit was executed at...
Algodex reveals wallet infiltrated by ‘malicious’ actor as MyAlgo renews warning: Withdraw now
Algorand-based wallet provider MyAlgo has again urged users to withdraw their funds after a February security breach which doesn’t appear to have been resolved.Update: Funds are still being actively...
DeFi lender Tender.fi suffers exploit, white hat hacker suspected
An alleged ethical hacker has drained $1.59 million from the decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Tender.fi, leading the service to halt borrowing while it attempts to recoup its assets.Web3-focused...
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...
DeFi to be examined at inaugural CFTC tech advisory meeting: Finance Redefined
Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week.DeFi will be in...
Notorious Monkey Drainer crypto scammer says they’re ‘shutting down’
The cryptocurrency phishing scammer behind some of the most high-profile and high-value Web3 thefts claims to have packed up shop, saying it was “time to move on to something...
Platypus Finance creates compensation portal for users following $9.1M exploit
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Platypus Finance has created a portal that enables users to view how much the platform owes them following the recent $9.1 million exploit.On Feb. 16,...
