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Finance
Poloniex
Poloniex Hot Wallets Hacked With $114M Seemingly Stolen: On-Chain Data
Poloniex investor Justin Sun confirmed the exploit, saying the exchange will reimburse affected users and offering a "white hat bounty" to the hacker.
(Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)
By Oliver Knight
Nov 10, 2023 at 12:06 p.m. UTC
Nov 10, 2023
PoloniexJustin SunHacksExploitsTronExchanges
CEO Ido Ben-Natan and CTO Raz Niv
Finance
Security
Web3 Security Firm Blockaid Raises $27M to Help Tackle Industry's 'Never-Ending' Challenges
Blockaid claims to have scanned 450 million transactions, thwarted 1.2 million malicious transactions and safeguarded $500 million in user funds in the last three months .
CEO Ido Ben-Natan and CTO Raz Niv
By Jamie Crawley
Oct 23, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. UTC
Oct 23, 2023
SecurityAttacksHacksExploitsFunding Rounds
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Technology
Tech
Friend.Tech Targeted SIM Swaps Worsen as Users Lose More Ether
CoinDesk reported earlier this week that Friend.Tech users were starting to seemingly get targeted in SIM swap exploits.
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By Shaurya Malwa
Oct 5, 2023 at 12:19 p.m. UTC
Oct 5, 2023
TechHacksEther
The since-renamed FTX arena. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk archives)
Policy
Newsletters
There's a Lot of Thefts Happening
Regulators don’t need more excuses to look suspiciously at the crypto industry, but a recent wave of hacks and thefts provide one anyway.
The since-renamed FTX arena. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk archives)
By Nikhilesh De
Oct 3, 2023 at 1:30 p.m. UTC
Oct 3, 2023
NewslettersState of CryptoRegulationsHacksMixin networkHuobi
hand holding $20 bill in front of trees
Finance
Hacks
DraftKings' Billionaire-Backed Crypto Analytics Firm CoinScan Raises $6.3M
The company is backed by Shalom Meckenzie, the largest individual shareholder in sports betting company DraftKings.
hand holding $20 bill in front of trees
By Jamie Crawley
Sep 21, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. UTC
Sep 21, 2023
HacksExploitsScamsFundingFundraisingDraftKings
Laptop hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)
Technology
Defi
North Korean Attackers Linked to $54M CoinEx Hack, Blockchain Data Suggests
A hot wallet of the crypto exchange used to hold users’ tokens was exploited by attackers on Tuesday.
Laptop hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)
By Shaurya Malwa
Sep 13, 2023 at 11:43 a.m. UTC
Sep 13, 2023
DeFiHacksMarkets
The Quantstamp service will catch flash loan exploits before they occur. (Marco Piunti)
Technology
Defi
Blockchain Security Firm Quantstamp Hopes to Battle Flash Loan Attacks With New Service
The service has been released in collaboration with researchers from the University of Toronto.
The Quantstamp service will catch flash loan exploits before they occur. (Marco Piunti)
By Shaurya Malwa
Aug 23, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Aug 23, 2023
DeFiHacksSecurity
north korea
Consensus Magazine
Analysis
Lessons of a $37M Attack: How a Ukrainian Payment Processor Was Hacked
CoinsPaid, a crypto payment processing company with Ukrainian roots, fell a victim to a social engineering attack, thought to have emanated from Lazarus, a North Korean hackin...
north korea
By Anna Baydakova
Aug 8, 2023 at 6:39 p.m. UTC
Aug 8, 2023
AnalysiscybercrimeHacks
An angel as a tombstone (Veit Hammer/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)
Consensus Magazine
Opinion
DeFi Definitely Isn't Dead
The commentariat said decentralized finance is in danger amid the crypto winter and recent spate of hacks. They're dead wrong.
An angel as a tombstone (Veit Hammer/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)
By Adam Blumberg
Aug 5, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. UTC
Aug 5, 2023
OpinionAdvisersTokenizationDeFiHacks
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Consensus Magazine
Opinion
AI Creates Security Risks and Attack Vectors. Can Blockchain Help?
Decentralized data storage and other blockchain-powered tools can help keep attackers away from AI's information throve, Chao Cheng-Shorland writes.
a figurative representation of a blockchain (fabio/Unsplash)
By Chao Cheng-Shorland
Jul 25, 2023 at 9:16 p.m. UTC
Jul 25, 2023
OpinionAIWeb3SecurityHacks