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Binance Reveals Getting Closer to Identify Hacker that Drained $570M

Binance is on the verge of uncovering the hacker(s) behind the $570 million exploit on its cross-chain bridge, BSC Token Hub, earlier this month. In a recent interview with CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box Europe,’ Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said the firm had received substantial tips from law enforcement authorities to identify the hacker(s) that drained two million BNB tokens. Binance “Narrowing Down” A series of attacks on targeting vulnerabilities in cross-chain bridges over the...

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Hacker Withdraws 200 Billion Fake BitBTC From Optimism Bridge

The Optimism bridge supporting privacy coin BitBTC is actively being exploited for 200 billion BitBTC tokens.  Due to the technicals of the hack, the BitBTC team now has less than 7 days to implement an upgrade to minimize the damages. A Poorly Designed Bridge According to Arbitrum tech lead Lee Bousfield on Twitter, the BitBTC bride contained a “critical exploit” that left it “trivially vulnerable.” It involves the bridge’s relationship between Ethereum’s layer 1 (L1)...

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Hacker Drains $1M From BitKeep Wallet in Swap Feature Exploit 

Crypto wallet provider BitKeep Wallet has become the latest victim of an endless wave of DeFi hacks this month. Blockchain security firm PeckShield first raised the alarm on Twitter late Monday, and BitKeep published an update on the incident in the early hours of Tuesday.  After alerting the public, the security firm asked users to follow some steps to ensure the safety of their funds. The steps included connecting their wallet to a revoke.cash site and revoking their...

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QANX Token Collapses 90% After $1 Million Bridge Hack

QANplatform – a quantum-resistant layer 1 blockchain – lost $1 million to a hacker who targeted the network’s blockchain bridge. Since the attack, its native QANX token has suffered a price collapse of over 90%.  The Latest Bridge Attack At 05:01 EST on Tuesday, QANplatform tweeted that its smart contract bridge had been hacked and that the attacker had already withdrawn tokens. Etherscan data appears to reinforce this, displaying two bulk withdrawals from the bridge at 08:17...

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Binance Smart Chain Paused Following $600 Million BNB Hack (Report)

Binance has announced a pause across the entire Binance Smart Chain (BSC or BNB Chain) following what appears to be one of the largest exploits in DeFi history.  An attacker has reportedly hacked another BNB chain user for 2 million BNB, worth $600 million.  Another DeFi Catastrophe According to BNB Chain on Twitter, the “temporary” pause is due to “irregular activity,” and a “potential exploit.” “All systems are now contained, and we are immediately investigating the...

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Bitcoin Defi Protocol Sovryn Gets Hacked for Over $1 Million

Sovryn – a Bitcoin-based decentralized finance protocol – was drained of over $1 million in funds on Tuesday using a price manipulation exploit.  The attack allowed the culprit to drain over $1 million worth of crypto from the protocol, including 44.93 RBTC and 211,045 USDT. Sovryn’s First Hack According to Sovryn’s blog post on the topic, the attacks specifically targeted the legacy Sovryn Borrow/Lend protocol. It impacted the RBTC and USDT lending pools.  RBTC and USDT are...

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Beeple Discord Server Exploited by Hackers Attempting to Drain Wallets

As one of the most prominent NFT artists around, Beeple has gathered quite a community around himself – and unscrupulous third parties have repeatedly attempted to get a piece of the pie themselves. Attacks Focusing on Social Media Earlier this year, Beeple’s community was attacked via Twitter, an exploit that saw the artist’s account compromised and used to promote a crypto scam that directed unwary users to a phishing page pretending to be the official one of Beeple’s...

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How a Bot Gained and Lost Over $1 Million of ETH in One Night

On Tuesday night, an Ethereum MEV bot gained 800 ETH through the use of clever arbitrage, only to lose all of it and more to a hacker an hour later. Here’s how the situation played out on-chain: The event began with a third-party trader mistakenly losing nearly $2 million to spreads on Uniswap v2 trade. While he initially traded in 1.8 million cUSDC, he only received 518 USDC in return.  According to Flashbots Product Lead Robert Miller, this only created a “massive arbitrage...

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Hackers Breach Jason Falovitch’s Wallet and Steal NFTs, ETH Worth $150K

Controversial crypto entrepreneur Jason Falovitch on Sunday reported that hackers breached his crypto wallet on OpenSea and stole four NFTs and six ETH. The value of the stolen assets is estimated to be in the range of $150,000, media reports said. In a similar incident, earlier this month, famous American actor and comedian Bill Muray became a victim of hackers and lost 119.2 ETH worth $185,000 that he had just finished raising through his NFT action for a charity.   Asking...

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Profanity Exploit Continues as Hackers Drain Another 732 ETH From Crypto Wallet

A hacker managed to get away with 732 ETH worth around $950,000 from a crypto wallet. Interestingly, blockchain security firm PeckShield revealed that the theft was carried out via the same vanity address hack connected to the UK-based crypto market maker Wintermute. On-chain data suggested that the hacker moved the stolen funds to the OFAC-sanctioned crypto mixing tumbler Tornado Cash. The latest exploit comes days after decentralized finance aggregator 1inc first discovered...

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