Hackers News
‘Cryptojacking’ in Financial Sector Soars 269% in 2022, Security Firm Report
A report from cybersecurity company SonicWall shows financial firms are now the main victims of so-called ‘cryptojacking’ attack...
Hacker Exploits ‘Audius’ for $1 Million in Malicious Governance Proposal
Decentralised music streaming platform Audius has announced that it lost around US$1 million to an unknown hacker early on July 24. The hack...
Hackers Make Off with $400K in ETH in PREMINT Hack
PREMINT, an NFT registration platform, has notified users via Twitter that an unknown party had stolen US$400,000 in ETH via a malicious wal...
UK Court Rules That Lawsuits Can Be Served Via NFTs
In what is a legal precedent for the High Court of England and Wales, a plaintiff has been granted permission to file a lawsuit against anon...
Uniswap Users Lose $8 Million in ETH in Phishing Attack
A phishing scam offering a fraudulent airdrop has this week managed to rob Uniswap users of almost US$8 million in ETH. The scam, instigated...
Yam Finance Successfully Thwarts $3.1 Million Governance Attack
The team at DeFi protocol Yam Finance has successfully blocked an attempt to wipe out the project’s treasury, worth US$3.1 million. The wo...
NFT Lender ‘Omni’ Exploited for $1.4m in Reentrancy Attack
In circumstances similar to early May’s US$80 million exploit of DeFi platform Rari Capital, NFT money market platform Omni lost 1300 ...
Mt. Gox Exchange Finally To Release 150,000 BTC to Users After 8 Years
The end may finally be in sight for creditors of the infamous Mt. Gox heist. Authorities were only able to recover an estimated 150,000 of t...
‘Crema Finance’ Hacker Returns Funds, Receives $1.7 Million in SOL as Bounty
Solana-based liquidity protocol Crema Finance claims it has recovered most of the roughly US$9 million worth of assets stolen by a hacker on...
Dutch Uni Recovers Double the Ransom it Paid in BTC During 2019
In a compelling display of how bitcoin is unsuitable for criminal activities, Netherlands-based Maastricht University has shared a positive ...
Hacker Wants 10 Bitcoin for Stolen Data of 1 Billion Chinese Citizens
In what could be one of the biggest data breaches in history, a hacker who claims to have stolen the personal details of 1 billion Chinese c...
Solana-Based Protocol ‘Crema Finance’ Exploited for $8.7 Million, Services Suspended
Solana-based liquidity protocol Crema Finance has announced via Twitter that it suffered a US$8.7 million hack and has suspended its service...