Category: Security

1 month ago Security

Cronos Erased Two Hours of Blockchain History to Claw Back $111 Million

Cronos validators rewound 10,961 blocks to recover $111.2 million of the $120.4 million Tectonic exploit; $9.19 million remains unrecovered.
1 month ago Security

Less than four weeks after a mint exploit and rollback, Harmony proposes to kill its own chain

Harmony proposed shutting down its Layer 1 and airdropping ONE as ERC-20 tokens on Ethereum, less than four weeks after...
1 month ago Security

Coldcard Wave 3 attacker begins cashing out $7.7M via THORChain and CoinJoin

The Coldcard Wave 3 attacker has moved 97.09 BTC, about 45% of that wave's haul, through THORChain and CoinJoin, per...
1 month ago Security

Anatomy of the Liquid Network exploit: unbacked L-BTC, a valid peg-out, and $320M gone

Unbacked L-BTC minted through an Elements bug cashed out via a valid SideSwap peg-out, draining about 95% of the Liquid...
1 month ago Security

Blockstream Scrambles to Secure Liquid Sidechain After Mystery Bitcoin Withdrawal

Blockstream's federated Bitcoin sidechain went dark after unknown actors pulled roughly 4,000 BTC from the multisig reserve, exposing the custody...
1 month ago Security

Ukrainian Police Dismantle Crypto Scam Ring Stealing Up to $1 Million a Month

Ukrainian police and the SBU dismantled a Kyiv crypto investment scam that allegedly stole up to $1 million a month...
1 month ago Security

Trezor Data Breach Widens as ShipMonk Leak Exposes 67,000 More Customers

Trezor disclosed that a breach at fulfillment partner ShipMonk exposed personal data of another 67,000 US customers, with some records...
1 month ago Security

U.S. and four-state coalition sink Sality, a 2003-era botnet that spent eight years rerouting crypto payments

A four-country operation led by CrowdStrike and the Justice Department isolated more than 15,000 infected machines running the EggJagger clipjacking...
2 months ago Security

Term Finance vaults drained in apparent $8.5 million governance exploit

An attacker drained an estimated $8.5 million from Term Finance vaults by exploiting the protocol's governance mechanism, bypassing a seven-day...
2 months ago Security

Coldcard Ships New Firmware After $114M Bitcoin Theft, Says AI Helped Find More Bugs

Coinkite shipped new Coldcard firmware after a three-week security review prompted by a $114 million bitcoin theft, but warns affected...