Attacks


Finance

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

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 multiple security measures in combination could have blocked the attacks, writes Gnosis co-founder Martin Köppelmann.

New York City street view of multiple bridges and overpasses (Red Morley Hewitt/Unsplash)

Finance

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.

(Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

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.

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Finance

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.

Naoris hopes to create a decentralized proof-of-security consensus mechanism by the end of 2022. (jaydeep/Pixabay)

Finance

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)

Tech

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

Tech

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

Markets

Popsicle Finance Loses $20.7M in Cyberattack

The hack affected Popsicle's Sorbetto Fragola pool.

Ice lolly melting popsicle

Finance

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

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