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Leading NFT marketplace OpenSea announced compensating users that suffered from the recent bug exploit. Funds worth $1.8 M was returned to the users. It was detected on January 24 that a hacker found a front-end vulnerability. Exploiting the bug, the hacker withdrew around 332 Ethers, worth around...

The other day, the American media sparkled with headlines that local investors living in New York forgot the access code and secret phrase from their Trezor One cryptocurrency wallet. By the way, a good amount has already accumulated on the device - against the backdrop of an increase in the cost...

The largest NFT marketplace OpenSea was hacked. The blockchain security platform Peckshield, reported that there was a front-end vulnerability, exploiting which the hacker managed to gain 332 Eths valued at about $780.000 at current prices. The estimations of Peckshield are based on data from...

On Jan. 17, the blockchain interoperability network Multichain was hacked. The team announced that a critical vulnerability affected 6 cryptos; WETH, PERI, OMT, WBNB, MATIC, and AVAX. The company mentioned that it fixed the vulnerability, and transactions could be done safely. However, Multichain...

Lympo, a subsidiary of game development company Animoca Brands, focused on creating a sports NFTs ecosystem, was hacked. As announced, exploiting the hot wallet security vulnerability, the hacker managed to withdraw 165.2 M of the platform’s native utility LMT (Lympo Market Token) cryptos,...

At the end of last week, another cryptocurrency platform was hacked. This time, the hot wallet of the AscendEX exchange was hacked. In a statement from the administration, it is noted that hackers were able to steal digital currencies totaling up to $ 77 million. ERC-20 tokens were stolen from the...

At the end of last week, it became known about a hacker attack on the hot wallets of the BitMart crypto exchange. The attackers managed to withdraw about $ 200 million in various tokens deployed on Ethereum and Binance Chain. The CEO of this platform, Sheldon Xia, promised to compensate the losses...

An unknown hacker or a group of hackers targeted the Bitcoin-focused DeFi platform Badger DAO. They managed to seize funds worth $120 M in different crypto assets. Badger DAO announced receiving reports of wrongful withdrawals of funds. While the team is examining the case, smart contracts are...

At the end of the summer, American law enforcement officers confiscated about $ 2.3 million in digital currency from a hacker from Russia. The criminal is currently in the territory of the Russian Federation. We are talking about Alexander Sikerin, who may be associated with the REvil hacker group,...

Unknown hackers have attacked about six thousand user accounts of the Coinbase crypto exchange. They exploited the vulnerability to bypass two-factor authentication using SMS. This week, the exchange sent affected customers letters informing them that cybercriminals hacked accounts and stole crypto...

The developers of the Cream Finance decentralized protocol will reimburse affected users for the losses resulting from a recent attack using instant loans. The project will allocate 20% of the fees for this purpose until the entire amount is repaid. The developers are also ready to pay 10% of the...

Cream Finance Suffered $25 M Flash Loan Attack Decentralized lending and yield farming network Cream Finance’s v1 market on Ethereum chain suffered a flash loan attack today. The platform informed about the exploit via twitter, posting that it resulted in a loss of 418,311,571 in algorithmic...

Kaspersky Lab experts discovered the Swarez Trojan, which, among other things, stole data from crypto wallets. The peak of activity of the malware occurred in the spring of 2021. The attackers used the games Among Us, Battlefield 4, Battlefield V, Control, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, FIFA 21,...

DeFi interoperable platform Poly Network, which was hacked a few days ago, offered hackers a $500.000 bug bounty. The attack resulted in removing $610 M from the network. Afterwards, the platform contracted the hack's initiators via Twitter and they sent back most of the funds via several...

On August 10, one of the DeFi's largest hacks ever took place which resulted in stealing around $613 M from the cross-chain protocol Poly Network. After the case, the network contracted hackers via Twitter calling on to return the seized funds. The attacker answered via Ether transaction note,...

bEarn Fi, an auto yield farming protocol based on Binance Smart Chain lost about $11 M as a result of the flash loan attack, which happened on May 16. Attacking bVaults’ BUSD Alpaca strategy, the attacker used flash loans and managed to steal over $10.8 M in the stablecoin BUSD. In DeFi, vaults...

An unknown person withdrew assets worth about $ 11.3 million from the Rari Capital decentralized financing protocol. Researcher Igor Igamberdiev noted that the attack was the first cross-network exploit - the attacker stole funds for it from the Value project, which is powered by Binance Smart...

A hacker attacked the Spartan Protocol DeFi project running on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and pulled about $ 30 million from its liquidity pools. The hacker used $ 61 million in BNB tokens to attack. Spartan also said they are trying to recover the withdrawn funds and turned to Binance for...