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Balancer Suffers Major Exploit: Over $116 Million Drained From V2 Pools
On Nov. 3, Balancer was exploited for over $116 million after attackers used a smart contract vulnerability to manipulate vault calls during pool initialization. Balancer Confirms Incident The decentr...
Balancer Hack Losses Soar: A Staggering $116M Impact on DeFi
BitcoinWorld Balancer Hack Losses Soar: A Staggering $116M Impact on DeFi The decentralized finance (DeFi) world is once again grappling with significant security challenges. Recent reports confirm th...
Heather ‘Razzlekhan’ Morgan Claims ‘Papa Trump’ Commuted Her Prison Sentence
In August 2023, Morgan and her husband, Ilya Lichtenstein, pleaded guilty to one of the largest heists in crypto history. ‘Papa Trump’ Intervened, Says Convicted Money Launderer Heather Morgan The twe...
North Korea’s AI-Powered Hackers Are Redefining Crypto Crime
Mysten Labs’ chief cryptographer warns that artificial intelligence, not quantum computing, poses the real near-term threat to blockchain security.
MetaMask, Phantom Lead Global Phishing Defense Effort After $400M in Crypto Scams
MetaMask, Phantom, and several other leading crypto wallets are joining forces to tackle the rising wave of crypto phishing scams that have drained more than $400 million from users in the first half ...
127,000 BTC Under US Seizure Tied to Milky Sad Weak-Key Vulnerability, Onchain Slueth Says
U.S. authorities’ push to seize more than 127,000 bitcoin has revived a key thread: several of the wallets at issue are labeled by Arkham Intelligence as tied to the “Lubian.com Hacker,” a cluster pre...
Warning to Android Crypto Users: New ‘Pixnapping’ Attack Can Steal Seed Phrases Directly From Your Screen
Cybersecurity researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have identified a new Android vulnerability that could allow hackers to steal sensitive on-screen data, including crypto wallet seed phrases and...
After $234M Hack, WazirX Gets Court Approval For Major Rebuild
Singapore’s High Court has given the green light to a restructuring plan for crypto exchange WazirX, clearing a major obstacle in the company’s effort to repay users after last year’s large theft. Rel...
WazirX Restructuring Cleared in Massive Relief for $230M Hack Victims
The sanction order followed an August re-vote that saw 95.7% of creditors by number and 94.6% by value support the plan.
Hackers Threaten to Leak 2.1M Discord Users’ Passports, Licenses in Extortion Attack
Hackers have reportedly stolen more than two million government identification photos from Discord’s third-party support system and are now threatening to leak them unless the company pays a ransom. T...
Is Abracadabra Cursed? Third Major DeFi Hack This Year Siphons Another $1.8M
DeFi lending protocol Abracadabra has fallen victim to another exploit, losing approximately $1.8 million in MIM tokens in a sophisticated attack that leveraged a flaw in its “cook” function. The brea...
Shibarium Reboots After $4M Hack, Pledges User Refunds – Here’s the Plan
Shibarium, the Layer 2 blockchain tied to Shiba Inu, has resumed operations following a multi-million-dollar exploit that forced developers to halt activity and initiate a 10-day emergency response. T...