Exploits


Finance

Solana-Based Decentralized Finance Platform Mango Hit by $100 Million Exploit

Mango's MNGO token was down over 40% after suffering from the latest massive decentralized finance exploit.

Sliced mango served up on a table (Desirae Hayes-Vitor/Unsplash)

Finance

BNB Chain Halts After 'Potential Exploit' Drained Estimated $100M in Crypto

The chain has now resumed operations after fixing a problem that let someone create $570 million of the token, though they were only able to abscond with a smaller amount.

Binance's Changpeng Zhao speaking at Messari Mainnet (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

EthereumPOW Sees 'Replay' Exploit for 200 ETHW Days After Rocky Start

The exploit took place on a contract, however, and does not affect the main Ethereum POW network itself.

Ethereum PoW users are reporting network issues. (Karla Hernandez/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Exchange KuCoin Highlights Flaws in DeFi Platform Acala's Post-Exploit Proposal

The exchange has pinpointed several mistakes in the platform’s data on erroneously issued stablecoins. 

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Finance

DeFi Platform Kyber Says It Removed Attack Vector, Compensated Affected Wallet

The Sept. 1 exploit saw $265,000 stolen from one Kyber wallet.

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Tech

DeFi Platform Kyber Network Discloses $265K Exploit, Vows to Reimburse All Funds

This most recent attack on a decentralized finance platform resulted from malicious website code.

Two RPC interfaces for Polygon and Fantom were impacted in a DNS hijack attack. (Mika Baumeister/Unsplash)

Tech

Inside the $3B DeFi Exploit of Acala's Crypto Platform

The exploit of one of Acala's liquidity pools demonstrates how easily billions of dollars can be siphoned from DeFi platforms, potentially wreaking havoc on an entire industry in a matter of minutes.

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Finance

Optimism Token Flash Crashes 10% on False Rumors of a Major Hack

The layer 2 system’s token fell 10% on Wednesday before rebounding to its pre-crash price after its team clarified it had not been hacked for $450 million.

Optimism co-founder Jinglan Wang (Brady Dale for CoinDesk)

Tech

DeFi Platform Acala’s Stablecoin Falls 99% After Hackers Issue 1.3B Tokens

A bug in the protocol’s newly deployed iBTC-aUSD liquidity pool left the door wide open for hackers to exploit.

The Polkadot pavilion on the Promenade at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)