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A recent poll conducted by Christine Kim, a researcher at Galaxy Digital, has revealed significant misconceptions within the Ethereum community regarding the blockchain’s economic security. The poll, which asked the crypto community to assess the security threshold of ETH staked in securing the blockchain, indicated a lack of awareness about the actual risks of an […]
2024-4-12 12:30 | |
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A community-governed layer one blockchain AirDAO has reportedly suffered a hacker attack, resulting in a loss of 126.5 ETH and 41.61 million AMB tokens. The AirDAO team disclosed in an X post on Mar. 21 that the project had fallen…
2024-3-21 13:08 | |
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin unveils a quantum defense strategy using quantum-resistant cryptography and a hard fork EIP to safeguard the blockchain. The post How Vitalik Buterin Plans to Make Ethereum Safe From Quantum Attack appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2024-3-11 09:59 | |
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Automatic decentralized crypto exchange FixedFloat seemingly suffered a multi-million hacker attack, resulting in a loss of Bitcoin and Ethereum. In an X post on Feb. 18, the FixedFloat team addressed the issue after it was first reported by blockchain researcher…
2024-2-19 10:08 | |
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According to the blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain, a crypto trader suffered a phishing attack that swooped over 180 million BEAM tokens on Wednesday and affected the token’s price. Related Reading: Coinbase Suspends PlayDapp Trading After Hack, PLA Price Reacts 180 Million BEAM Tokens Stolen In an X (former Twitter) post, Lookonchain exposed a new crypto scam that had occurred on February 15.
2024-2-17 04:00 | |
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Blockchain analysts alarm about a novel attack vector, where bad actors are poisoning addresses with real crypto. Cyvers’ analysts have issued a warning about a newly identified phishing scam targeting crypto users, particularly those dealing with Ethereum (ETH). According to…
2024-2-17 11:15 | |
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CELO is up by more than 2% today despite the network suffering a phishing attack over the weekend. CELO, the native coin of the Celo blockchain, is one of the best performers amongst the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap.
2022-11-7 12:18 | |
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Last weeks BNB Chain attack led Cosmos developers to inspect their IBC code. They found a critical security vulnerability that endangered every IBC-enabled blockchain. Cosmos Compromised It appears the entire...
2022-10-14 00:42 | |
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Concerns about a potential spam attack have arisen as a result of the unexpected growth in the size of the Zcash (ZEC) blockchain caused by increasing transaction volumes. Jameson Lopp, co-founderThe post Why are Zcash holders worried, given the growth in size of blockchain appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-10-8 10:30 | |
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The Electronic Coin Company, the organization behind Zcash, claims that concerns of a spam attack are mostly just FUD.
2022-10-7 06:38 | |
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The Electronic Coin Company, the organization behind Zcash, claims that concerns of a spam attack are mostly just FUD.
2022-10-8 06:38 | |
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The proof-of-work fork of the Ethereum blockchain was targeted by a cross-chain contract exploit.
2022-9-20 12:11 | |
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Expert of Braiins Pool (formerly Slush Pool), oldest Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool, shared details of hypothetical scenario of 51% attack on largest blockchain
2022-9-17 16:17 | |
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Recently published CryptoLeaks blog post alleged that Ava Labs, the creator of the Avalanche blockchain, was involved in paying lawyers to “attack and harm crypto organizations and projects that migThe post Can Avalanche [AVAX] be a profitable bet for traders going long appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-8-31 01:30 | |
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The blockchain startup, which is backed by some industry heavy hitters, has suffered a governance attack
2022-7-24 11:45 | |
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Key members of the Solana ecosystem are the target of a class-action lawsuit filed last week before a court in California. They are accused of illegally benefitting from SOL, the blockchain's native tThe post Solana under attack - SOL investor files class action claiming 'securities violations' appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-7-8 22:30 | |
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Chainalysis, a blockchain data platform, today announced the launch of the Chainalysis Crypto Incident Response Service, a rapid response service for organizations that have been targeted by incidents such as a cyber attack, ransomware, market manipulation, or another type of exploit that involves a cryptocurrency theft or demand.
2022-6-23 00:23 | |
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Ethereum staking protocol Lido’s dominance of staking has the potential of putting the entire blockchain at risk of a centralized attack when it eventually becomes a proof of stake network, an article from Danny Ryan, a researcher at Ethereum Foundation, argued.
2022-6-14 04:10 | |
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Stepn, a "move-to-earn" application on the Solana blockchain that gives users cryptocurrency rewards from walking or jogging, suffered multiple distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks following a recent upgrade.
2022-6-6 14:48 | |
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In recent months, Axie Infinity (AXS), a prominent play-to-earn blockchain game, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Axie Infinity used Twitter to inform its users about a fresh attempt to hack its Mee6 discord bot.
2022-5-19 00:08 | |
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More than 5,505 Ether of the Ronin Bridge exploitation seems to be transferred through Tornado Cash, a unique privacy crypto exchange. Blockchain data showed that the address associated with the $625 million Ronin Bridge Attack had begun transferring ether tokens valued at over $10 million.
2022-5-19 00:00 | |
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The infamous Conti ring’s internal messages, leaked in February, served as a jumping-off point for a new transaction analysis by Crystal Blockchain.
2022-5-18 17:00 | |
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Luna Foundation Guard CEO, Do Kwon, has released a new proposal entitled “Terra Ecosystem Revival Plan 2. ” In it, he has outlined an updated version of his original plan, which described forking the current Terra blockchain from a snapshot taken before the ‘attack.
2022-5-17 06:20 | |
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For the second time in less than 24 hours, devs announced on Friday, that the Terra blockchain was officially halted at a block height of 7607789 “to come up with a plan to reconstitute it.”
2022-5-13 12:34 | |
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The Solana blockchain went offline for seven hours on Saturday evening following a bot attack that flooded the network. The post What now for Solana following ‘Candy Machine’ spam attack? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-5-3 04:00 | |
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Per a report from blockchain security firm Peck Shield, the DeFi sector has been under attack with a profitable season for bad actors. The total amount extracted from different crypto projects has already surpassed the total recorded last year.
2022-5-3 21:27 | |
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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has launched a fresh searing attack on Ethereum, positing that the leading programmable blockchain has “many single points of failure”.
2022-4-21 01:51 | |
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A malicious smart contract has put the network out of commission for over 24 hours and comes less than a month after a controversial governance vote.
2022-4-7 02:59 | |
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Bitcoin dropped $2,000 from $47,500 to $45,500 in four hours after news broke that the EU is set to cripple innovation in the blockchain space. The post Bitcoin drops to $45.5k as Europe votes to ban cold wallets in attack on decentralization appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-4-1 22:48 | |
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The attack took place on the DeFi protocol’s implementation on the Fuse blockchain.
2022-4-1 18:56 | |
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Hundred Finance, another lending protocol on the Gnosis chain, was also exploited in an apparent “re-entrancy” attack, according to a blockchain security researcher.
2022-3-16 22:26 | |
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Minutes after Russia announced a “special military operation” in Ukraine, effectively declaring war on the Eastern European country, Vitalik Buterin, a Russian-Canadian cofounder of the Ethethereum B blockchain, criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin on Twitter.
2022-2-25 02:48 | |
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“QKD is the only solution that has been mathematically proven to defend against a potential quantum computing-based attack,” JPMorgan emphasized in its announcement.
2022-2-19 09:30 | |
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Hacks in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector have increased significantly over the past few years. The latest attack was on the Wormhole bridge that links the Ethereum (ETH/USD) and Solana (SOL/USD) blockchain.
2022-2-9 19:28 | |
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The Polygon network is experiencing sluggishness in transaction speed and gas spikes. Sunflower Farmers have been discovered as the source of the unintended attack. Polygon became popular due to its network efficiency and is championing a lot of blockchain initiatives.
2022-1-9 11:36 | |
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Battle for Life: A play-to-earn game developed with blockchain technology on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) network rewards players in cryptocurrency. Based on a battle between terrestrials and technodes, the game uses non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and illustrates the Earth in the distant future, under attack by graphene-powered robots.
2021-12-24 17:00 | |
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DeFi hacks are not going anywhere with another platform's users being exploited
2021-12-21 15:08 | |
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Solana blockchain suffered a DDoS attack that slowed down the network’s speed. Cyber security enthusiasts say the attack portrays the security flaws of Solana’s PoH consensus framework.
2021-12-13 11:36 | |
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Things appear to be back to business for Solana, after the fifth biggest blockchain suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that jammed the network and led to delays all around. But The post After Solana's DDoS attack, crypto watchers cast doubt on Proof-of-History appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-12-12 19:30 | |
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Solana SOL/USD is a decentralized blockchain that is built to enable capable as well as user-friendly applications. SOL is the native cryptocurrency token, and Solana uses Proof-of-Stake (PoS).
2021-12-11 15:46 | |
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Ethereum has been at the forefront of the boom in the DeFi sector. However, the Bitcoin community believes that with innovation unlocking on the blockchain, it is turning out to be a competitor to exiThe post 'Expressiveness of Ethereum, attack surface of Bitcoin,' does Cardano have it all appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-12-1 23:30 | |
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Zabu confirmed that the attacker successfully pulled out 4.5 billion tokens in Zabu Farm Contract and stole around $600K.
2021-9-14 12:05 | |
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PeckShield reported through a tweet of the new hack on Cream Finance. The blockchain security company said a flash loan attack on the decentralized finance lending and borrowing protocol. #FlashLoanAlert https://t.
2021-8-31 01:00 | |
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DAO Maker, a crypto fundraising platform commonly mistaken for MakerDAO, suffered a hack that resulted in the loss of more than $7. 00 million (£5. 07 million). A report unveiled this news on August 12, citing a disclosure from PeckShield, a Chinese blockchain security company.
2021-8-13 21:27 | |
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The 51% attack on Bitcoin SV this week is an opportunity to highlight the importance of decentralized blockchain security.
2021-8-6 16:25 | |
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ThorChain, a decentralized finance (DeFi) token swap protocol based on the Cosmos blockchain, lost roughly $4.8 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) from its liquidity pools to a hacker attack today. The post DeFi darling ThorChain (RUNE) suffers multi-million dollar exploit appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2021-7-17 13:00 | |
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According to the United Nations Security Council, this crypto was stolen over the last seven years and used in weapons development. A new investigation has revealed that crypto companies and wealthy individuals are being scammed on social media by North…
The longest-running marketplace for stolen credit cards on the darknet has announced the shutting down of its services. The administrator of Joker’s Stash, founded in 2014, stated that the site would be taken down in February.
A Slovenian cryptocurrency mining pool and trading platform announced that they’ve managed to fully compensate their users affected by a hacking attack that took place in December 2017, which took over 4,600 bitcoins.
Nicehash, the cloud mining service that got hacked in December, has returned 60 percent of the stolen bitcoins, according to local media. After the cyberattack last year, the Slovenian company promised to fully reimburse its customers and has been doing it on a monthly basis.