2023-10-7 20:33 |
The Web3 platform’s website has been restored, but the company still warns against using it. The hack may be linked to September’s attack on Balancer. origin »
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The crypto space still presents risks like scams, hacks, rug pulls, etc. In another troubling event, a crypto whale lost over $24 million worth of assets in a massive phishing scam. In this case, the victim address is regarded as a major liquidity provider on the Uniswap Decentralized Exchange (DEX), supplying over $1.6 million worth […]
2023-9-8 14:30 | |
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PolyNetwork is still trying to recover from the attack on July 2, where hackers stole about $5.5 million, even though the notional value of the episode is reportedly $34 billion. The Poly developers have halted all smart contracts to resolve…
2023-7-3 14:53 | |
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A hacker who recently took over the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash has given up control while still using the protocol to launder the digital tokens stolen in the attack.
2023-5-30 19:06 | |
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Despite dawn of meme season on crypto market, scammers are still around
2023-5-19 12:02 | |
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Despite the inordinate amount of resources needed to engineer them, small-cap cryptocurrencies are still susceptible to a 51% attacks.
2022-11-14 17:24 | |
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A majority of services on Acala are still offline, according to a statement from the project today. Majority of Acala Services Are Down Acala is still attempting to restore operations...
2022-8-27 01:56 | |
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Another $100 million go to TRX buyback from exchanges
2022-6-17 12:50 | |
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Some of you saw it coming; some of you still can't believe it's real. Was the "most significant collapse in crypto history" an attack?
2022-5-12 19:30 | |
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On December 31, Illuvium’s official Discord channel got phished when attackers directed users to a website claiming to be Illuvium’s NFT platform, causing approximately $150,000 in losses.
2022-2-20 14:05 | |
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Crypto mining has been an environmental issue that cant be over looked; World governments have tried to put a lid on it but still have an uphill battle as the popularity of crypto grows. Will crypto be mining be able to last if the technology still impacts the earth on high levels ? Or will it mold with the time and adapt with the land before governments continue to attack Crypto currency.
2022-1-30 04:48 | |
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The Crypto. com hack is less than a week old and still very fresh in the minds of investors in the space. In what was a brief attack, the hackers were able to access a portion of users’ accounts on the platform and steal their funds.
2022-1-21 02:00 | |
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Japan’s exchange announced it had been subjected to a hacker attack, and the loss might exceed $90 million. Although they still don`t inform on the exact amount stolen, the exchange ceased deposits and withdrawals.
2021-8-20 20:55 | |
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Liquid cryptocurrency exchange has suffered a fresh attack, losing various cryptoassets in its hot wallets to hackers. The exchange claims it’s still investigating the incident, however, it’s confirmed that the stolen assets include bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), and tron (TRX), according to a tweet on August 19, 2021.
2021-8-19 11:30 | |
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Former US President Donald Trump is once again taking aim at the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Speaking with Stuart Varney on Fox Business today, Trump described bitcoin as a “scam” and insinuated that it’s just another currency competing with the United States dollar.
2021-6-7 19:33 | |
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Websites of DeFi projects Cream.Finance and PancakeSwap reportedly came under attack by hackers. According to their tweets, the projects’ DNS had been compromised. Users who visited the websites of The post DeFi project DNS hijack attack: PancakeSwap regains access; Cream’s website still compromised appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-3-16 20:25 | |
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Following the Cream Iron Bank flash loan attack, preliminary findings of a probe have shown that contracts and markets still function normally. As a result, markets have now been re-enabled while the asset borrowing function has been paused.
2021-2-17 22:15 | |
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Popular DeFi project CREAM saw a massive $37. 5 million flash loan exploit take place on Saturday. While the story is still developing, the team announced the attack. They stated that they are working on a post mortem through relevant parties.
2021-2-13 14:31 | |
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Holders of Pickle Finance’s native coin PICKLE are currently suffering from a 50% drawdown after the protocol was attacked by an unknown user. Details are still unclear about the attack but the loss of funds has resulted in users pulling their liquidity and selling the cryptocurrency en-masse. PICKLE is down to $11.50 as of this […]
2020-11-22 01:30 | |
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DeFi Despite positive technological developments, the decentralized finance (DeFi) space is still rife with hacks and exploits. This much was made clear just recently, when $7 million was siphoned out of a cryptocurrency vault based on Ethereum.
2020-11-16 08:00 | |
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It’s ten years since the first official cyber-terrorist attack of a crypto exchange, and despite technological advances, most cryptocurrency entities have not yet been able...
2020-11-13 07:34 | |
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The Tomochain (TOMO) price began a bounce on Sept 5 which is still ongoing. While the price is expected to move upwards in the short and medium-term, the direction of the longer-term trend still seems to be bearish.
2020-9-29 13:15 | |
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Two new Bitcoin hacks have surfaced recently, showing the Electrum wallet still appears to be troubled by phishing efforts.
2020-9-7 09:58 | |
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The DAO attack was a foundational episode in Ethereum history. On Tuesday, CoinDesk Live gathered a handful of blockchain veterans to look back.
2020-7-30 06:10 | |
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BitMEX recently suffered an attack that resulted in $1. 2 billion in liquidations. Despite the significant amount of money that its users lost, data reveals that the platform is still susceptible to market manipulation.
2020-3-24 21:10 | |
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YouTube crypto bloggers attack.
2019-12-29 02:06 | |
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The Argentinian government has been hit with a Bitcoin ransomware attack. According to the latest information, the hacker demanded 50 BTC to withdraw the attack. For all the positive changes that cryptocurrencies have brought in the last few years, there are still those who would use them to harm others.
2019-12-10 13:00 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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Reports show that fiat currency is still the favorite choice for money laundering, with 2–5% of all transactions being illicit, yet regulators ferociously attack AML policies
2019-11-13 14:50 | |
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The Lightning network is becoming more appealing to startups, though it is still in experimental mode and may face glitches.
2019-10-22 11:52 | |
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Nothing has changed since late September when BTC price dropped to $7,800 level. Bitcoin is still hovering around $8,000 and the trading volume is also stuck at $200 million. Source: Coin360 However, Bitcoin detractors have taken this time to attack the leading cryptocurrency yet again.
2019-10-19 22:05 | |
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Former Blockstream CTO Greg Maxwell and MIT’s Cory Fields have expressed their opinion regarding possible threats that could lead to bitcoin failure. For both, a 51 percent attack is very unlikely and they are more worried about a social attack or a potential new bug.
2019-10-10 09:00 | |
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It seems like not a day goes by without a major company being hacked or a government-run institution exposed to ransomware attacks. Now, state agencies in Texas have succumbed to a coordinated ransomware attack that has impacted at least 23 local government entities across the state.
2019-8-19 08:28 | |
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The shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas are still fresh in the memory of Americans. Like every previous shooting, these raised urgent questions about gun laws in the United States of America.
2019-8-14 17:30 | |
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Munroe College in Manhattan has been hit by a ransomware attack that has shut down the college’s computer systems. The hackers are demanding 170 bitcoin (BTC), which is roughly $1. 9 million. The malware infection came to light on the morning of July 10, but the specifications of the infection are still largely unknown, as reportedRead MoreRead More.
2019-7-15 13:00 | |
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Remember the concept of the ‘totem’ from Inception? If the totem continues to spin, the holder is still dreaming and if it drops, it is reality. Nouriel Roubini is the cryptocurrency world’s version of the totem.
2019-7-5 17:00 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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Ethereum clients that still haven't patched known vulnerabilities pose a security risk to the entire network, according to new research.
2019-5-17 16:00 | |
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Cryptojacking — the process of infecting computers with malware to mine cryptocurrency — has declined alongside prices during cryptowinter. But like any dextrous organism facing extinction, the virus and its propagators are adapting.
2019-4-27 22:07 | |
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Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending. Two of the biggest digital black markets seem to be disappearing, both at the same time.
2019-4-27 21:17 | |
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By CCN. com: The US State Department has published a new travel advisory warning that more suicide bombings could be on the way in Sri Lanka. It comes after 290 victims were killed in terrorist attacks across the country on Easter Sunday.
2019-4-22 15:12 | |
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Electrum servers are still under a sustained Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. The wallet developers announced the issue on April 7, 2018. In correspondence with Bitcoin Magazine, Electrum developer Thomas Voegtlin speculated that the attack may be a form of retaliation from a phishing attacker who has been targeting Electrum in recent weeks.
2019-4-11 21:47 | |
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Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.
2019-4-5 04:03 | |
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The CoolWallet S, made by CoolBit X, combines hot and cold storage solutions, blending the mobility afforded by software wallets with the enhanced security features offered by hardware wallets.
2019-4-4 00:05 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Tang. The Chinese security service provider 360 Security has issued a warning that a large number of crypto exchanges have been targeted by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus and that the number is still rising after the recent hacks of crypto exchanges DragonEx, Etbox and BiKi.
2019-4-2 21:54 | |
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The Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx has announced a security breach to its users via its official Telegram channel. In the message, a company administrator revealed that the hackers stole assets belonging to both the exchange and its users.
2019-3-27 22:58 | |
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The world is still in shock following the events that happened in two mosques in New Zealand just a few hours ago. What’s even more baffling is how one of the villains is said to have made his money.
2019-3-15 18:02 | |
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Bitcoin transactions are not anonymous but users can still add a layer of privacy by using different addresses and other techniques to confuse blockchain surveillance. However, a de-anonymization method known as a dust attack is on the rise.
2019-3-15 04:45 | |
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In January of 2019, student Conner Brown attended a guest lecture by a Professor Susan Athey at the University of Stanford Graduate School. She gave a presentation to his “Evolution of Finance” class titled “Blockchain and the Future of Finance.
2019-3-1 03:39 | |
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In a bold move to bridge traditional theater with Web3 innovation, Helm Capital Group has announced the launch of Kowalski Coin, a new token designed to democratize Broadway investment through their proprietary Benefit Block (BB) model.
Smart contracts ensure transparency, while user-owned wallets put control back to consumers
The future of finance shouldn't involve choosing between centralized convenience and decentralized security. We need to demand both.
Tether has made its first dive into the world of venture capital by injecting $2 million into Arcanum Capital’s fund, which focuses on developing blockchain-based Web3 projects. According to a recent press release, major stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT) has invested…
Predictive analytics uses historical data, social media chatter, and AI driven tools to forecast NFT valuations—though hype, manipulation can skew final results The post Predictive Analytics for NFT Valuation: Can AI Forecast Market Trends? appeared first on NFT News Today.
Younger consumers give as much importance to fun, identity, and emotional connection as functionalities.
Draper Associates-backed CUDIS has partnered with UCLA Athletics for a year-long collaboration to promote web3 smart rings among students and athletes. The web3 wellness company CUDIS has announced a one-year partnership with UCLA Athletics, a Californian collegiate sports program, to…