Tag: attackers

Attackers Behind $9M Platypus DeFi Exploit Acquitted by French Court: Report

Attackers Behind $9M Platypus DeFi Exploit Acquitted by French Court: Report

The court found that the exploiters acted in good faith, according to the report, after one of them – identified by Le Monde as Mohammed M – argued th [...]
Attackers Left Empty-Handed as Crypto Hacks Drop 70% in Q1 2023

Attackers Left Empty-Handed as Crypto Hacks Drop 70% in Q1 2023

“To date, hacking victims have recovered over half of all stolen funds in Q1 2023,” the firm added. “For example, in March 2023, a hacker exploited a [...]
Hackers copied Mango Markets attacker’s methods to exploit Lodestar: CertiK

Hackers copied Mango Markets attacker’s methods to exploit Lodestar: CertiK

According to a post-mortem analysis provided by CertiK of the $5.8 million Lodestar Finance exploit that occurred on Dec. 10, 5. The hacker burned a l [...]
How Attackers Made $15M From Staking Platform Helio After Ankr Exploit

How Attackers Made $15M From Staking Platform Helio After Ankr Exploit

Oracles are third-party services that fetch data from outside sources to within a certain blockchain. Oracles are extensively used by decentralized fi [...]
FBI seeks Bitcoin wallet information of ransomware attackers

FBI seeks Bitcoin wallet information of ransomware attackers

Three federal agencies in the United States — the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the [...]
How Attackers Stole Around $1.1M Worth of Tokens From Decentralized Music Project Audius

How Attackers Stole Around $1.1M Worth of Tokens From Decentralized Music Project Audius

The sophisticated exploit involved attackers passing a malicious governance proposal by exploiting smart contracts. www.coindesk.com [...]
Attackers loot $5M from Osmosis in LP exploit, $2M returned soon after

Attackers loot $5M from Osmosis in LP exploit, $2M returned soon after

Osmosis, a decentralized exchange built on the Cosmos network was halted just before 3am ET on June 8 after attackers exploited a liquidity provider ( [...]
DeFi protocols declare losses as attackers exploit LUNA price feed discrepancy

DeFi protocols declare losses as attackers exploit LUNA price feed discrepancy

The seemingly endless freefall of Terra (LUNA) affected two decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols due to a price discrepancy, as the Chainlink price [...]
Ola Finance Says Attackers Stole $4.7M in Re-Entrancy Exploit

Ola Finance Says Attackers Stole $4.7M in Re-Entrancy Exploit

A post-mortem released Friday showed the funds were lost in a “reentrancy” attack. www.coindesk.com [...]
Cybersecurity: An Attackers Perspective

Cybersecurity: An Attackers Perspective

By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA, International Head of Analysis, WisdomTree Final week’s Behind the Markets podcast featured Liran Grinberg, co-founder of [...]
Ransomware Attackers Demand $1M in Bitcoin From Capcom

Ransomware Attackers Demand $1M in Bitcoin From Capcom

Japanese Gaming Big Capcom, creator of fashionable video games like Resident Evil and Avenue Fighter, fell sufferer to a ransomware in early Novemb [...]
Issues simply received MESSy for potential Ethereum Basic 51% attackers

Issues simply received MESSy for potential Ethereum Basic 51% attackers

Over the previous weekend, on block 11380000, an answer for the prevention of 51% assaults was launched to the Ethereum Basic (ETC) neighborhood. A [...]
{Hardware} Pockets Flaw Lets Attackers Maintain Crypto for Ransom With out Touching System

{Hardware} Pockets Flaw Lets Attackers Maintain Crypto for Ransom With out Touching System

A hypothetical man-in-the-middle assault would have allowed an attacker to carry customers’ crypto for ransom on Trezor and KeepKey {hardware} wall [...]
Ransomware Victims Are Combating Again Towards Their Attackers and Successful

Ransomware Victims Are Combating Again Towards Their Attackers and Successful

The No Extra Ransom decryption software repository, an initiative launched by Europol to fight ransomware assaults, has saved people $632 million i [...]
Unhealthy Ravencoin Code Permits Attackers to Generate Cash With out Mining

Unhealthy Ravencoin Code Permits Attackers to Generate Cash With out Mining

Unidentified attackers exploited a Ravencoin vulnerability to mint additional RVN “past the coinbase of 5000 RVN per block,” Ravencoin lead develop [...]
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