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Both parties failed to reach an agreement on the safe return of the stolen assets despite Kyber offering the hacker 10% of the funds, which amounted to $4.3 million.  The hacker behind the $46 million exploit on KyberSwap, a decentralized exchange that allows users to send and receive different cryptocurrencies, issued an ultimatum for the return of the digital assets stolen from the protocol on November 23. According to an on-chain message sent to the company on Thursday, the black hat...

KyberSwap has stated that it will continue to cooperate with law enforcement and cybersecurity experts to recover user funds and track down the perpetrators of the attack. The KyberSwap team has recovered approximately $5.7 million after last week’s $47 million hack on KyberSwap liquidity pools on Polygon and Avalanche. The company announced that it has negotiated a return of 90% of the user funds, with the remaining 10% serving as a bounty for the hackers. “The KyberSwap team has been in...

Kyber Network has asked all of its users to promptly withdraw all their funds without clicking on any suspicious links or DMs. KyberSwap, a decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol, has reportedly experienced a $47 million exploit, based on on-chain data. The funds were associated with its Elastic Pools liquidity solution. Unexpectedly, funds from wallets linked to the protocol moved to a single wallet, as highlighted by a user known as Spreek on X. The affected funds include $20.7 million...

InfStones explained it conducted an internal review revealing no further threats. The blockchain infrastructure provider also invited an external security firm to audit its systems and company policies. Blockchain infrastructure provider InfStones has announced its success in fixing vulnerabilities identified in its system by security firm dWallet Labs. dWallet Labs reportedly found susceptibilities in InfStones’ validators. According to dWallet Labs, it detected the threats while...

Solana argues that an attacker would still need the permission of the phone owner to gain entry. Solana has responded to claims by blockchain security firm CertiK that there is a security threat to its Saga phone. In a Wednesday video post on X, CertiK alleged that the holders of the smartphone may be exposed to what is called a “bootloader vulnerability”. According to the firm, this loophole could allow bad actors to create some sort of backdoor access to the phone. In a bid to highlight...

The reason for the surprise was that the average sale price for CrypToadz is typically under $1,000, making the sudden hundredfold increase in value in a short period of time seem questionable to experts. On October 9th, an anonymous crypto user bought a CrypToadz NFT on the popular NFT marketplace OpenSea for a shocking price of 1,055 Wrapped Ethereum (wETH), equivalent to around $1.6 million. This expensive purchase of a single non-fungible token representing one of over 6,000...

Mixin Network immediately suspended the deposits and withdrawals stating that they would soon announce their decision to deal with the lost assets. Earlier today, the decentralized finance (DeFi) project Mixin Network announced the suspension of all deposits and withdrawals after losing $200 million in crypto assets in a recent hack. The SlowMist team was the first to report this incident. It also noted that the breach happened through a compromise in Mixin’s cloud service database....

Luckily, Cuban was quickly alerted and managed to move over $2.5 million worth of other crypto he had on Polygon to a Coinbase exchange address. It turned out to be a huge mistake for tech billionaire Mark Cuban when he decided to revisit crypto this past weekend. Having been inactive for several months, the Dallas Maverick owner thought it a good idea to look up his holdings, only to fall victim to a crypto scam. According to blockchain data, he lost around $870,000 worth of tokens to the...

August saw the crypto industry lose around $24 million in virtual assets due to various hacks and exploits. On August 30, Ivan Bianco, a prominent blockchain gaming-focused YouTuber known for his channel “Fraternized Crypto,” faced a devastating loss of approximately $60,000 in cryptocurrencies during a live stream. This unfortunate incident occurred when he inadvertently revealed the private keys to his crypto wallets. During the live stream, Bianco, who hails from Sao Paulo, Brazil, made...

CoinspeakerFTX Customers Hit by Fresh Email Phishing Attack Proactively, the platform has placed a temporary freeze on affected user accounts within the customer claims portal. FTX Customers Hit by Fresh Email Phishing Attack