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Attackers Left Empty-Handed as Crypto Hacks Fell 70% in Q1 2023

Attacks on token protocols and crypto projects dropped a staggering 70% in Q1 2023 compared to the same period last year when greed and valuations ran rampant, according to a new report from security firm TRM Labs. "The Hash" panel weighs in on the drop.

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Crypto Security Firm Unciphered Claims Ability to Physically Hack Trezor T Wallet

Unciphered, a company of cybersecurity professionals who recover lost cryptocurrency, says it found a way to physically hack into the Trezor T hardware wallet. Trezor says it acknowledged a similar-sounding attack vector a few years ago.

Unciphered lab technician decasing the Trezor T. (Unciphered)

Tech

Attackers Left Empty-Handed as Crypto Hacks Drop 70% in Q1 2023

Attacks and hacks on key protocols fell 70% in Q1 2023 compared to the same period in 2022 and were lesser than in any quarter last year.

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Finance

Russian Bitcoin Wallets Allegedly Exposed by Apparent Hacker

A mysterious bitcoiner used the OP_RETURN field to call out wallets controlled by FSB and GRU.

Chainalysis CEO Michael Gronager (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

ZkSync-Based DEX Merlin Drained of $1.8M During Public Token Sale Despite ‘Audit’

The project garnered hype among Crypto Twitter users for its attractive yield offered on deposits.

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Finance

Safemoon Hacker Strikes Deal With Developers to Return $7.1M

The exploiter will retain 20% of the stolen funds as a bug bounty.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Bitrue Drained of $23M in Hack of Ether, Shiba Inu, Other Tokens

Bitrue said the affected wallet contained “less than 5%” of overall reserves.

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Tech

Developers Block Potential ‘Eight-Figure’ Exploit Involving Cosmos-Based Ethermint

Ethermint enables the use of Ethereum smart contracts within the Cosmo ecosystem and is employed by several chains, including Cronos, Kava and Canto.

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

Finance

Exploit Involving Aave and Yearn Helped Users Make Money

The exploiter paid back Aave users’ USDT debts on its v1 markets, making the total USDT borrowed stand at zero.

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Finance

DeFi Protocol Yearn Finance Impacted in Nearly $11M Exploit That Occurred Via Aave Version 1

The exploiter was able to steal millions of U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins, data shows.

Cypher Protocol suffers exploit (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)