How Blockchain Security Differs From Traditional Cybersecurity – 1 – Node...

Blockchain is a rapidly-evolving technology with a great deal of interest and investment. Decentralized Finance (DeFi), in particular, has a great deal of money...

What You Need to Know about the $460M MtGox Hack of...

The full story behind the first major crypto hack and how much really was lost. MtGox was one of the very first platforms on which...

Crypto.com lost $35M in a Hack

Crypto.com, one of the biggest and best known cryptocurrency exchanges in the world announced that 483 of its users were hit in a hack...

Security Threats to Blockchain Networks – 5 – Consensus Attacks

Consensus Attacks: A Deep-dive Where centralized systems operate on the basis of centralized permission, blockchain protocols proceed on the basis of decentralized consensus. While this...

$30M Stolen From Grim Finance

DeFi protocol Grim Finance said about $30 million was stolen by hackers exploiting a reentrancy vulnerability in their platform. A security flaw in the...

Cybercrime in China – a Growing Threat for the Chinese Economy

Western publications often picture the People’s Democratic Republic of China (hereafter China) as the world’s chief propagator of cyberattacks. But the picture is much...

Qubit Finance Hacked for $80 Million

Qubit Finance, a major decentralized digital finance platform, was hacked for $80 million in cryptocurrency. The largest crypto-hack so far this year was initially...

How Crypto’s Biggest Hacker was Found but Never Identified

The $611M Poly Network exploit is the largest crypto hack to date in terms of mark-to-market value and all the stolen funds were returned,...

Cybersecurity of Blockchain & Blockchain for Cybersecurity

You may have heard, over the last year or two, about the new technological miracle that is the blockchain. It seems that every banker,...

The Other Side of NFT – The Scams and the Threats

In November 2021, a popular Twitter user and cryptocurrency enthusiast @Oxflim tweeted about a particularly nasty incident that happened to him. He lost his...

BNB Chain Halted After Suspected Hack, $536M Compromised

BNB Chain has been halted after one of the biggest BNB holders started displaying erratic on-chain behavior, suggesting a hack. At around 17:30 UTC the...

Introduction to Blockchain Layers 0, 1, and 2 Security

What Are Blockchains Layers 0, 1, and 2? A blockchain is a complex, multi-layered system.  Bitcoin, the original blockchain, maintained a distributed and decentralized digital...

How Blockchain Security Differs From Traditional Cybersecurity – 2 – Smart...

This article is the second in a four-part series discussing the differences between traditional IT security / cybersecurity and blockchain security.  Check out the...

Tracing Private Cryptocurrencies

Many believe total anonymity is possible using privacy enhanced cryptocurrencies. It might not always be the case. Are popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum private? Absolutely...

$31 Million Hack of Meerkat Finance

On March 4, 2021 Binance Smart Chain-based yield farming protocol Meerkat Finance lost $31 million in user funds - just one day after launching...