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...
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...
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...
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...
Verified Crypto Account Listings Proliferate on the Dark Web
Verified crypto-exchange accounts have become a hot commodity on the dark web, with login credentials available for as little as $20, according to May...
How the Nomad Bridge Hack can Help Us Explore the Potential...
One attacker and hundreds of copycats looted the Nomad bridge for over $190 million; few did the right thing.
Decentralization is a hot-button topic in...
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,...
How the Big Binance Bridge Hack Will Change the way People...
$566M worth of BNB was stolen from Binance’s cross-chain bridge BSC Token Hub, but how they responded to the hack will be the most...
How a $1B Flash Loan Led to the $182M Beanstalk Farms...
Understanding how flash loans and governance work in DeFi to demystify the Beanstalk Farms Hack
The only way to understand how the Beanstalk Farms decentralized...
New UK Crypto Rules for Sanctions
UK Treasury’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation updated its sanctions guidance on 30 August to explicitly include “cryptoassets” among those that must be frozen...
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...
$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...
Cryptosec Maps Dark Web SIM Swapping Economy
In the U.S. alone, SIM-swapping attacks resulted in $72 million worth of losses last year, four-million dollars more than 2021, according to the Federal...
A Deep Dive Into the ‘Rags to Riches’ Manual for Withdrawing...
Annualized data from blockchain forensics provider Chainalysis indicates that crypto-enabled crime has dropped precipitously through the first half of 2023, but cybercriminals are also...
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...
