Hackers News
OpenSea Phishing Attack Sees at Least $3 Million Worth of NFTs Stolen
At least US$3 million worth of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have been stolen in a phishing attack targeted to dozens of users in the decentral...
Scam Alert: Beware of Telegram Bots Stealing Your Crypto with One-Time Passwords
Hackers are using Telegram bots to trick users into handing them access to their cryptocurrency accounts. One US citizen lost US$106,000 aft...
Build DAO Loses $470,000 Through ‘Hostile Governance Takeover’
An unknown actor has taken over the Build Finance DAO by using an inflated number of votes to pass a self-serving proposal, allowing the min...
White Hat Hacker Chooses $2 Million Bug Bounty over ‘Printing Unlimited ETH’
A white hat hacker recently discovered a critical security bug on Optimism – a layer-2 scaling solution on Ethereum – that could...
Bitfinex Token LEO Soars 60% Amid BTC Seizure from 2016 Hack
Bitfinex’s UNUS SED LEO token (LEO), an altcoin most had forgotten since it launched in 2019, has just surged 60 percent in value followin...
Polygon DeFi Protocol ‘QiDao’ Exploited for $13 Million
Another day, another DeFi hack. This time the target was QiDao’s Superfluid vesting contract. User funds on QiDao contracts remain sa...
The Story of a Wannabe Rapper and How US Officials Seized $3.6 Billion in BTC
The US Justice Department has impounded US$3.6 billion in bitcoin and arrested a would-be rapper and her husband for conspiring to launder s...
ETH Sidechain ‘Meter.io’ Hacked for $4.4 Million
Blockchain infrastructure company Meter.io has confirmed that US$4.4 million was stolen in an attack on its network on February 6 and h...
Giant DeFi Bailout as Jump Capital Replenishes Wormhole’s 120,000 Lost ETH
Earlier this week, we saw one of the most devastating DeFi (decentralised finance) hacks on record with an estimated US$326 million stolen f...
Alert: New Malware ‘Mars Stealer’ Targets 2FAs and Crypto Hot Wallets
A new information-stealing malware has been spotted in the wild targeting over 40 crypto hot wallets, browsers, and 2-factor authentication ...
Blockchain Bridge ‘Wormhole’ Suffers Possible $326 Million Exploit
Wormhole, the popular blockchain bridge for connecting Ethereum, Solana and others, has suffered a possible hack worth over US$326 million a...
Bitfinex Hackers of 2016 Move $3.5 Billion Worth of Bitcoin
Billions of dollars’ worth of bitcoin (BTC) stolen in the infamous Bitfinex hack of five years ago have been aggregated into a single ...