A hacker who recently took over the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash has given up control while still using the protocol to launder the digital tokens stolen in the attack. Hacker uses Tornado Cash to wash stolen tokens In the incident, the attacker obtained...
In a recent tweet, Pavel Luptak, a hacker and member of the Institute for Cryptoanarchy, expressed skepticism about the widespread adoption of decentralized cryptocurrencies in the current world order. Luptak believes that cryptocurrencies will never go mainstream as long as the traditional state...
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced the indictment of a Russian national for orchestrating a crypto-ransomware scheme that specifically targeted the infrastructure of the United States. On May 16, the unsealed indictments revealed the identity of the accused as Mikhail...
An unnamed Bitcoin user reportedly hacked hundreds of wallets purportedly controlled by Russian security services, stealing coins and sending them to addresses belonging to Ukrainian volunteers engaged in the war. According to a now-deleted report by on-chain data analysis firm, Chainalysis, from Feb....
The hacker behind the Wintermute exploit of September 2022 is now the largest holder of Curve DAO’s CRV, Etherscan data on April 25 shows. Wintermute exploiter controls 28% of all CRV in circulation As of writing, the address controlled by the “Wintermute Exploiter” holds 111,953,508.959916301101032331...
Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied A hacker who exploited a bug in SafeMoon’s smart contract and drained $8.9 million from its liquidity pool has agreed to return 80% of the stolen funds. On April...
The popular decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, Yearn Finance, was recently hacked using the open-source liquidity protocol, Aave. Per the on-chain data, the hacker has already moved more than $11.5 million in stablecoins. According to the on-chain data, the exploiter used Aave V1 to...
In an exclusive interview with crypto.news, pseudonymous white-hat hacker known as Trust has shared crucial details regarding a recent hack that took advantage of a vulnerability in the RouteProcessor2 contract. Trust was able to save a significant amount of users’ funds by performing...
Sentiment, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform offering lending and borrowing services on the Arbitrum layer-2 network, was hit by a malicious exploit on April 4, resulting in a nearly $1 million loss. The attacker used a reentrancy bug in Balancer, a liquidity protocol...
DeFi lending platform Sentiment has responded to a reentrancy attack that resulted in the loss of $1 million worth of crypto by offering a $95,000 bounty to the hacker or anyone with information that could help Sentiment find and prosecute the attacker. As...