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Euler Finance exploiter returns another $37.1M worth of ETH and DAI

The exploiter originally drained $195 million worth of ETH and tokens from the protocol but has now returned around $138 million. The architect of the March 13 Euler Finance exploit returned an additional $26.5 million worth of Ether (ETH) to the Euler Finance deployer account on March 27, on-chain data shows. Another 13M for ze…
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Euler Finance exploiter returns over 58,000 stolen Ether

ETH worth over $101 million had been returned to the lending protocol as of March 25. The exploiter still controls part of the stolen assets. The hacker behind the $196 million exploit on lending protocol Euler Finance has returned the majority of the stolen assets, according to on-chain data.  In a transaction on March 25,…
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Arbitrum Discord hacker shares phishing announcement amid airdrop hype

The phishing message on Discord offered “the opportunity to re-claim an additional stake in Arbitrum DAO Governance” while citing issues during the initial token claim drive. The crypto community’s warning against fake Arbitrum (ARB) airdrops materialized as hackers managed to drop a phishing link into Arbitrum’s official Discord server. On March 25, blockchain-focused security firm…
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Arbitrum airdrop hype grips DeFi world: Finance Redefined

The Arbitrum airdrop has created quite a hype in the DeFi industry, with several fake airdrops and exploits leading up to the distribution. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. The much-awaited airdrop of layer-2 scalability…
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Mt. Gox creditor saga: What lessons has the Bitcoin community learned?

The downfall of Mt. Gox continues to highlight the importance of greater transparency and accountability within the cryptocurrency industry. In the early days of Bitcoin, Mt. Gox was by far the most prominent Bitcoin (BTC) exchange in the world. The Tokyo-based company was responsible for more than 70% of all Bitcoin transactions in 2013. However,…
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Euler Finance hacker starts returning stolen Ether

Chances that the hacker will return the entire loot of $197 million remain slim, as no more outbound transactions — other than the 3,000 ETH — were recorded at the time of writing. The recent attack that drained $197 million from Euler Finance was dubbed the biggest decentralized finance (DeFi) hack of 2023 so far.…
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DeFi sees its biggest hack in 2023 as Euler loses $197M: Finance Redefined

DeFi suffered its biggest attack this year with a flash loan attack on crypto lending platform Euler Finance and the hackers are belived to be same that exploited a BSC based protocol in February. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant…
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Euler Finance blocks vulnerable module, working on recovering funds

Euler is working with law enforcement agencies and blockchain security firms to contact the exploiter and recover the funds. Decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Euler Finance became a victim of a flash loan attack on March 13, resulting in the biggest hack of crypto in 2023 so far. The lending protocol lost nearly $197 million in…
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Euler attack causes locked tokens, losses in 11 DeFi protocols, including Balancer

On March 8, Euler had over $311 million in crypto locked inside its smart contracts. Its total value locked has since fallen to $10.37 million. Contagion from the Dec. 12 flash loan attack against Euler has spread far and wide, resulting in frozen or lost funds for 11 different decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, according to…
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Crypto funding shifts from CeFi to DeFi after major collapses: Finance Redefined

The majority of the DeFi tokens in the top 100 traded in the red on the weekly charts due to a downturn in the broader financial market. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. DeFi has…
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