Ankr Defi Protocol Suffers a Multi-million Dollar Attack
The BNB chain-based Ankr defi protocol has suffered a significant exploit as a result of a major bug in its code that allowed for limitless minting of its…
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$3 Million Stolen from Skyward Finance
A security attack cost Skyward Finance, an open-source launchpad built on the NEAR chain, 1.1 million NEAR tokens (about 3 million US dollars). Aurora…
Changpeng Zhao Alerts Investors Of Crypto Sites Phishing
The Chief Executive Officer of Binance, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, has issued a warning that the search results provided by Google continue to promote websites…
Solidus Labs: Scams And Rug Pulls Makeup About 8% of All ERC-20 Tokens
The blockchain market integrity and risk monitoring company Solidus Labs reveals it has discovered that rug pulls and scam smart contracts make up for…
Cosmos Team Discovers a Critical Security Vulnerability in Its System
Following the BNB Chain incident last week, Cosmos developers looked over their IBC code and discovered a significant security flaw that put all IBC-enabled…
Solana DeFi Platform Mango Markets Losses $100M+ in Exploit
An attacker manipulated pricing oracle data in order to steal over $100 million from the decentralized finance (DeFi) exchange Mango Markets, which is based…
The $160 Million Wintermute Hack Was an Inside Job, Says a Cyber Sleuth
A cyber sleuth has claimed to have conducted a follow-up analysis on last week’s $160 million hack on the Wintermute algorithm market maker and…
Wintermute Crypto Market Maker Loses $160 Million in its Defi Hack
Wintermute, a cryptocurrency market maker, was hacked for about $160 million in its Defi activities, according to an announcement made on Twitter Tuesday by…
New Free DAO (NFD) Token Crashes by 99% After a Flash Loan Exploit, Up to $1.25M Vanished
New Free DAO (NFD) decentralised finance (DeFi) platform was exposed to a flash loan attack early on Thursday, resulting in an estimated loss of…
Cornerchain (CNR) Token Crashes to Nearly Zero Hours After a 149,000% Increase
Security company PeckShield has reported that CornerChain (CNR), the native cryptocurrency of Corner, a network of blockchains that claims to offer ledger services to…
Investors Lost $600K to DeFi Project Blur Finance as Developers Disappear
Blur Finance emerges as the most recent blockchain project to fail and disappear with hundreds of thousands of dollars, following the disappearance of other…