Crypto & Blockchain Security

How KuCoin Survived a Massive Hack of $285M Worth of Crypto...

When attacked, some crypto projects and exchanges buckle and fold under pressure; KuCoin set the standard in 2020 for how to react to crypto...

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,...

What the Biggest Blockchain Game’s Hack Reveals about the Future of...

Axie Infinity’s Ronin Bridge Hack for $551M worth of crypto assets could paradoxically lead to higher rates of blockchain adoption by showing that it’s...

Binance Has a $1B Hack Insurance

Binance Has a $1B War Chest for Hack Protection. Amid a flurry of multi-million dollar cryptocurrency exchange hacks, Binance has allocated $1 billion to...

$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...

$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...

Security Threats to Blockchain Networks – 3 – Smart Contracts

Smart Contract Risk and How to Mitigate It: A Deep-dive The strengths of smart contracts are also the source of its weaknesses, and will always...

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...

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 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...

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...

Security Threats to Blockchain Networks – 2 – A Holistic Overview

The utopian view of the blockchain as an unhackable alternative to the status quo is a pipedream. Many traditional cyberattacks are effective in a...

Security Threats to Blockchain Networks – 4 – Network Attacks

Network Attacks: A Deep-dive Network attacks are a class of exploits that focus on the isolation and manipulation of individual nodes or groups of nodes....

Trying to Solve the Mysterious $200M BitMart Hack

A missing pile of Safemoon and other cryptocurrencies, accusations of broken promises, and then nothing. When a high-profile cyber attack takes place and hundreds of...