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Hacker Exploits DeFi Protocol ‘Zeed’ for $1 Million But Fails to Take the Funds
After the decentralised finance (DeFi) protocol ‘Zeed’ was exploited for US$1 million this week, the hacker destroyed the contra...
ETH Privacy Tool Tornado Cash Starts Blocking Sanctioned Addresses
Tornado Cash is apparently using Chainalysis oracles to block access from US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) addresses. The blockade...
2 Million Users’ NFTs at Risk After Security Firm Identifies Flaw in Rarible
Cyber security software firm Check Point Research (CPR) has identified a vulnerability in NFT marketplace Rarible that could have seen any o...
Beanstalk Stablecoin Loses $182 Million in Flash Loan Exploit
An attacker has drained US$182 million from Beanstalk stablecoin protocol in a flash loan attack, the second nine-figure DeFi exploit in jus...
$APE Drops 20% Following Bored Ape Yacht Club Discord Hack
ApeCoin has dropped 8 percent after the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) Discord servers suffered a phishing scam. The governance token behind th...
Crypto Venture Capitalist Loses $1.7 Million in NFT Hot Wallet Phishing Attack
Arthur Cheong, founder of DeFi and Web3-focused crypto venture capitalist firm Defiance Capital, tweeted this week that a hacker had stolen ...
Darknet Ecstasy Kingpin Forfeits $2.3 Million in Bitcoin
A 25-year-old man from Massachusetts in the US has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for selling illicit drugs for cryptocur...
Fantasm Finance DeFi Project Exploited for $2.6 Million
This week’s attack on Fantom Network-based synthetic asset protocol Fantasm Finance saw the loss of US$2.6 million worth of Ethereum. ...
Suspicious Code Detected in ETH Smart Contract Putting NFT Projects at Risk
According to the famous DeFi detective who goes by “Zahcxbt” on Twitter, 31 NFT projects may be at risk due to what he calls “suspicio...
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...
Report: Crypto Crime Reached New Highs in 2021
In its annual Crypto Crime report, New York-based blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has reported that although the percentage of illicit...
New Spider-Man Movie Torrent Contains Malicious XMR Mining Program
Cybercriminals have to keep up with the latest trends in order to continue running their scams, so it comes as no surprise they’re exp...