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Flash Loan Attack

DeFi Yield Farming Aggregator ApeRocket Suffers $1.26M ‘Flash Loan’ Attack

Jamie CrawleyJul 15, 2021

The attacks occurred on ApeRocket's Binance Smart Chain and Polygon networks within a few hours of each other on Wednesday.

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Belt Finance to Compensate Users Following $6.23M Attack

Tanzeel AkhtarJun 2, 2021

Belt Finance said it will compensate users who were directly affected in the 4Belt pool or beltBUSD vault and holders of BELT tokens.

Donald Trump

Website of ‘Trump’ Crypto Coin Exposes Sensitive Details of New Users: Report

Sebastian SinclairJul 23, 2021

A hacker was able to breach the security of the website, where they exposed the email addresses and passwords of users who bought Magacoin.

EtherDelta

US Seeks Information About $1.4M EtherDelta Hack in 2017

Jamie CrawleyMay 21, 2021

The request from the Office of the United States Attorney follows the 2019 indictment of Anthony Tyler Nashatka.

Colonial Pipeline

DarkSide Hackers’ Bitcoin Stash Tracked

Anna BaydakovaMay 17, 2021

DarkSide hackers might have received 321.5 BTC for ransom since March, with 107 BTC still unaccounted for.

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DeFi

Balancer Labs Offers $2M Bug Bounty to Spot Vulnerabilities

Sandali Handagama

Balancer Labs wants to know about any vulnerabilities in its V2 Vault architecture, available Tuesday.

Bitfinex

$623M in Bitcoin From 2016 Bitfinex Hack Moved Under Cover of COIN Hype

Muyao Shen

But the impact on the market may be little.

NFTs

Lessons From the Nifty Gateway NFT Heist: Not Your Keys, Not Your Art

Benjamin Powers

After what appears to be the first NFT heist, what can we take away from the Nifty Gateway hack?

Malware

This Elusive Malware Has Been Targeting Crypto Wallets for a Year

Benjamin Powers

With custom domains and apps, advertising and a social media presence, the ElectroRAT malware operation targeting crypto wallets is extensive.

Cover Protocol

Who Insures the Insurer? Cover Protocol Attack Exposes DeFi’s Promise and Peril

Michael J. Casey

DeFi insurer Cover Protocol, designed to reduce smart-contract failure risks, was exploited by a bug in its smart contract on Monday morning.

Cover Protocol

Cover Protocol May Launch New Token Following Attack

David Pan

Cover Protocol announced it’s exploring launching a new COVER token after its current one was abused in a minting attack by a “white hat” hacker on Monday morning.

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Crypto Exchange Livecoin Begs Users to Stop Trading After Losing Control of Servers

Danny Nelson

Livecoin asked clients to stop making deposits and trading after suffering a "carefully planned attack."