After a boast about the protocol’s resiliency, Value DeFi loses $6 million to flash loan exploit. Following a Twitter thread on Friday that highlighted the decentralized finance protocol’s flash loan exploit prevention methodology, Value DeFi appears to have been the victim of a $6 million flash loan exploit. At roughly 10:45 AM EST, a user…
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Blockchain records show the hackers got away with more than $2,051,159 in DAI before moving the funds to a different address. Hackers were reportedly able to exploit savings pools at Gibraltar-based decentralized finance protocol Akropolis, getting away with more than $2 million in stablecoins. The firm stated on Twitter on April 12 that it had…
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Auditors see foul play in the deployment of the smart contract, resulting in a classic scam. On November 2, the Axion Network launched its new token, known as AXN. The project touted the asset as a new investment vehicle, claiming that it would be the most profitable blockchain of its kind to date. During the…
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Check out this week’s Bad Crypto podcast. It’s been another strong week for Bitcoin. The dollar price is up about 2.5 percent over the week, although that’s still something of a decline from its recent high above $13,400. At one point, Bitcoin fell 4 percent in 24 hours. But bulls remain optimistic and see the…
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Crypto exchanges are disappearing at a fast rate this year. As least 75 crypto exchanges have closed down due hacks, exit scams or simply disappeared for unknown reasons so far this year. According to the Crypto Wisser Exchange Graveyard five of the exchanges were labelled as scams, and four including Altsbit, and Nerae, were flagged…
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Some UniCats users saw their entire token balances drained due to a malicious contract. Yield farmers looking for a quick profit were recently taken in by a dubious DeFi protocol called UniCats — a yield farming scheme reminiscent of other, more famous protocols like SushiSwap or Yam Finance. According to ZenGo researcher Alex Manuskin, at…
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A dizzying lack of transparency as the crypto exchange is hacked and $150m in customer funds goes missing Back in April of 2020, Cointelegraph took a close look at the KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange. Investigating the apparent lock of the primary domain name, which was a result of a legal case under the jurisdiction of the…
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North Korean hackers are reportedly using untraceable altcoins to convert stolen cryptocurrencies into cash. North Korea-based cybercriminals are suspected to be using untraceable alternative cryptocurrencies, or altcoins, to convert stolen funds into cash. According to an NK News report, an unpublished United Nations Panel of Experts report states that North Korea-backed hackers have stolen approximately…
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Hardware wallet provider Ledger said its marketing database was breached between June and July. Major cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider Ledger has alerted customers to a data breach it faced in June and July. In an email on July 29, the company said it was made aware of the breach on July 14 when a researcher…
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Company representatives declined to learn key details of the Twitter hack after offering seven figures for them. There is more to Tron’s bounty on the Twitter hackers than the company is willing to talk about. An anonymous source contacted this Cointelegraph reporter, asking to be put in touch with Tron to collect the company’s $1…
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