The Top 4 Supply Chain Security Risks of Blockchain Smart Contracts
Code reuse is considered best practice in software engineering. Reusing high-quality, secure code can speed development processes and often results in higher-quality code than...
Diving into the $320M Wormhole Bridge Hack
The full story behind the exploit that led to the fraudulent minting of 120,000 wETH and threatened to crash Solana.
Early February of 2022 was...
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...
$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...
Blockchain Security
Recent advances in Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) / Blockchain have significant implications for the global economy and financial services FinTech and Decentralized Finance (DeFi)...
The 12 Biggest Hacking Incidents in the History of Crypto
The most comprehensive ranked list of the biggest crypto hacks in history (Up until November 1, 2022. I suspect a larger one is just...
How Blockchain Security Differs From Traditional Cybersecurity – 3 – User...
This article is the third in a four-part series exploring the differences between traditional IT security and blockchain security. Check out the first two...
The 5 Most Common Crypto Scams and How to Avoid Them
The DeFi revolution presents new risks and challenges for innovators, regulators, cybersecurity experts and early adopters of the powerful technology. These are the top...
Security Threats to Blockchain Networks – 1 – Cyber Attacks Taxonomy
Cyber-Attack Strategies in the Blockchain Era - A Framework for Categorizing the Emerging Threats to the Crypto Economy
Market attacks
Rely on the mass-manipulation of investors...
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...
Potential $600M FTX Hack
In the midst of the FTX meltdown, the once 2nd largest exchange appears to also be facing one of the largest crypto hacks of...
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...
Why DevSecOps is Essential for the Blockchain Ecosystem
In recent years, many organizations have adopted more modern development practices, including Agile, Scrum, and DevOps. The goal of these new processes is to...
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...
Transit Swap Hacker Returned 70% of the Money
A hacker that stole $23 million from the decentralized exchange (DEX) Transit Swap today returned $16M, or about 70% of the stolen Ethereum and...