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Polygon YELD Token Goes to Zero as $250,000 Disappears
Another Polygon Yield Farming token has crashed after attackers found a vulnerability in the platform’s smart contract, exploiting it ...
THORChain Suffers Another Attack: $8 Million Held, Hacker Wants 10% Bounty
THORChain has been once again schooled by hackers who managed to take a further US$8 million in this latest attack, bringing the total losse...
1,000 Pro-Trump Magacoin Holders’ Personal Details Leaked by ‘Hactivist’
Magacoin is a pro-Trump crypto created to support “MAGA” candidates, but things haven’t quite gone according to plan for s...
US Government Offers $10 Million Bounty for Cyberattacks, Enticing with Crypto Payments
Following the infamous Colonial Pipeline attack earlier this year and a slew of copycat ransomware attacks, the US government has gone on th...
DeFi Project Thorchain Attacked, Draining $4.9 Million Worth of Ethereum
Thorchain has suffered a second attack, draining millions in assets from the protocol. The attack was brought on by an unforeseen exploit in...
Founders of South African Crypto Investment Company Vanish with $3.6 Billion Worth of Bitcoin
Ameer and Raees Cajee, the brothers behind Cape Town-based crypto investment platform Africrypt, have disappeared under suspicious circumsta...
Scam Warning: Fake Crypto Hardware Wallets Sent to Ledger Customers
Last year, hardware wallet provider Ledger suffered an internal breach of security resulting in the exposure of 250,000 to 1,000,000 custome...
$11 Million Ransom Paid in Bitcoin By World’s Largest Meat Producer
JBS SA – a Brazilian company that processes meat largely sourced from Australia in order to sell it in the Americas and Europe – paid a ...
BTC Wasn’t Hacked; the FBI Just Seized Control of the Bitcoins via the Server
Following a ransomware attack last month, US investigators have seized close to 64 Bitcoin valued at approximately A$2.73 million. Bitcoin&#...
Beware of “The Dusting Attack” Hackers Are Using to Break Blockchain Privacy
Dust attacks have become a popular way of malicious activity for hackers trying to break blockchain privacy. Dusting was used at first by pr...
DeFi100 Goes Down, Claiming They Were Hacked And Haven’t Rug-Pulled
DEFI100 (D100), a DeFi project dealing with virtual assets, has gone down. At the time of writing, visitors to the DeFi project’s website ...
Flashloan Exploit On Binance’s PancakeBunny Leads to $45 Million USD Drained
An economic exploit on PancakeBunny’s decentralised finance (DeFi) protocol was used on Wednesday which saw the attacker drain $45 mil...