#crypto exploit

Rocketswap, a decentralized exchange on the Coinbase native blockchain and Ethereum-based network Base, has just experienced a crypto exploit, losing over $860k of users’ assets.  According to an August 15 post on X by Rocketswap, the incident occurred due to a “brute force hack”  on the server, which contains private keys related to the protocol. Rocketswap posted that this security breach…

Over $45 million was lost to exit scams in May while exploits on DeFi protocols racked up less than half that amount over the same period.

Allbridge has recovered $465,000 worth of cryptocurrency stolen in a recent exploit, after the attacker apparently took the project’s offer for a white hat bounty and returned the funds. The stolen funds were converted to Binance USD and used as compensation. Allbridge had previously offered the attacker a chance to escape legal repercussions and receive a bounty for finding vulnerabilities. The…

CertiK Alert has warned users of Euler Finance to be wary of phishing sites exploiting the latest security incident that cost the lender $197 million. CertiK Skynet, a major web3 security role player and real-time analyst of crypto hacks, scams,…

The 10 largest crypto hacks and exploits in 2022 saw $2.1B stolen

Just the top 10 major cryptocurrency exploits garnered over $2 billion for malicious actors in a year that was marred with bankruptcies and collapses.

Bitcoin SV Faces a 51% Attack

According to reports from CoinMetrics, BSV suffered a 51% attack on Tuesday morning. As initially reported, the attack is the fifth one on the network since the end of June and has resulted in three versions of the chain’s simultaneous mining.  Understanding 51% Attack The firm Further reported that all Bitcoin SV FARUM nodes recordedRead More