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Attacks

CEO Ido Ben-Natan and CTO Raz Niv
Finance
Security
Web3 Security Firm Blockaid Raises $27M to Help Tackle Industry's 'Never-Ending' Challenges
Blockaid claims to have scanned 450 million transactions, thwarted 1.2 million malicious transactions and safeguarded $500 million in user funds in the last three months .
CEO Ido Ben-Natan and CTO Raz Niv
By Jamie Crawley
Oct 23, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. UTC
Oct 23, 2023
SecurityAttacksHacksExploitsFunding Rounds
New York City street view of multiple bridges and overpasses (Red Morley Hewitt/Unsplash)
Consensus Magazine
Opinion
Bridge Exploits Cost $2B in 2022, Here’s How They Could Have Been Averted
The bridges that are essential to our multi-chain cryptoverse are vulnerable to hacks. But an analysis of some of the biggest exploits of the past year reveals that applying m...
New York City street view of multiple bridges and overpasses (Red Morley Hewitt/Unsplash)
By Martin Köppelmann
Jun 2, 2023 at 5:31 p.m. UTC
Jun 2, 2023
Opinionmulti-blockchaincross-chain bridgeBridgeExploitsHacksAttacks
(Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk)
Finance
Ethereum
Ethereum Bot Gets Attacked for $20M as Validator Strikes Back
The incident raises questions about whether validators can be trusted, one former member of the Ethereum Foundation said.
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By Oliver Knight
Apr 3, 2023 at 10:56 a.m. UTC
Apr 3, 2023
EthereumMEVDeFiBotsAttacks
(Getty Images)
Markets
Exploit
USP Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg as DeFi Protocol Platypus Suffers $8.5M Attack
The flash loan attack caused Platypus Finance’s native stablecoin to fall to 48 cents from $1. The potential loss is $8.5 million, according to blockchain security firm CertiK...
(Getty Images)
By Krisztian Sandor
Feb 16, 2023 at 9:34 p.m. UTC
Feb 16, 2023
ExploitDecentralized FinanceDeFiAvalancheFlash LoansAttacksStablecoin
(jaydeep_/Pixabay)
Finance
Security
Paradigm Leads $11.8M Funding Round Into Web3 Firewall Blowfish
Blowfish aims to help wallets and custodians protect users with real-time warnings and human-readable transaction context.
(jaydeep_/Pixabay)
By Jamie Crawley
Sep 30, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Sep 30, 2022
SecurityWeb3AttacksFunding Rounds
(Jason Pofahl/Unsplash)
Finance
Exploits
IRA Financial Sues Gemini Over $37M Crypto Heist
The lawsuit corroborates earlier reporting that hackers deployed a police SWAT team as “a ruse to distract IRA employees” on the day of the attack.
(Jason Pofahl/Unsplash)
By Danny Nelson
Jun 7, 2022 at 2:56 p.m. UTC
Jun 7, 2022
ExploitsAttacksGeminiRetirement
1908 photograph of a vault door
Tech
Hack
Returned Funds, Blacklisted Tokens Raise More Questions Than Answers in DeFi's Biggest Hack
The Poly Network attacker has returned $342 million of their $613 million haul. Should token issuers freeze the rest?
1908 photograph of a vault door
By Muyao Shen
Aug 11, 2021 at 8:46 p.m. UTC
Aug 11, 2021
HackDecentralizationStablecoinsDeFiAttacksPoly Network
UK - London - Busker's pitch coins
Tech
Defi
Crypto Panhandlers Beg Poly Network Attacker for Share of $613M Haul
First came the attack. Then came the moochers.
UK - London - Busker's pitch coins
By Bradley Keoun
Aug 10, 2021 at 7:20 p.m. UTC
Aug 10, 2021
DeFiAttacksExploitsPoly Network
Ice lolly melting popsicle
Markets
Hack
Popsicle Finance Loses $20.7M in Cyberattack
The hack affected Popsicle's Sorbetto Fragola pool.
Ice lolly melting popsicle
By Jamie Crawley
Aug 4, 2021 at 12:32 p.m. UTC
Aug 4, 2021
HackDeFiAttacksPopsicle Finance
BlockFi CEO Zac Prince
Finance
Spam
Crypto Lending Platform BlockFi Attacked With Flood of Fake, Abusive Sign-Ups
The malicious spree involved offensive language being placed in the first and last name fields on the account registration page.
BlockFi CEO Zac Prince
By Sebastian Sinclair
Mar 10, 2021 at 9:28 a.m. UTC
Mar 10, 2021
SpamBlockFiAttacks