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Binance Collaborates With Huobi To Recover $2.5M Worth Of Bitcoin Assets From Hackers

The security teams of Binance and Huobi teamed up to recover 124 Bitcoin from the hackers responsible for the Horizon Bridge Hack of 2022.

FTX Users Request Court To Redact Private Information From Bankruptcy Filings

Clients of FTX International have requested the court to withhold their identities and private information from FTX's bankruptcy filings to protect the exchange's user base from identity theft and other cyber scams.

Aave DAO Approves Proposal To Implement Chainlink’s Proof-Of-Reserves On Avalanche

The Aave DAO has voted in favor of using Chainlink’s Proof-Of-Reserves to secure bridged assets on Avalanche.

FTX Hacker Converts Over 30K Ethereum Tokens Into Bitcoin

The perpetrator behind the recent FTX hack swapped 30,990 Ethereum tokens (worth $36M) for Bitcoin via RenBridge.

FTX To Delist Tokens That It Considers As Securities

Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX, said his exchange will stop supporting certain tokens in the US to avoid facing regulatory issues.

Mango Market Exploit: A DeFi cybercrime disguised as “Good Intentions”

Market manipulation in the DeFi crypto world is almost a usual occurrence. The Mango Market exploit is just another in an endless list of exploits. Who are those involved, who's to blame and how can a future occurrence be prevented?

ApeCoin DAO May Delay APE Staking To Launch Bug Bounty Program

A proposal submitted to the ApeCoin DAO’s forum seeks to delay the launch of APE Staking, and instead, suggests allocating 1M APE tokens (worth $4.5M) as part of a bug bounty program.

Attacker Exploited over $100 Million from Solana's Mango Markets

An attacker exploited the DeFi Platform Mango Markets by manipulating oracle's price of MNGO tokens. Negotiations have commenced between the attacker and the platform.

Binance Halts BNB Smart Chain Following Over $100M Cross-Chain Bridge Exploit

Binance has halted its BNB Smart Chain (BSC) due to a $100 million to $110 million exploit on its cross-chain bridge. Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao, confirms the situation has been contained, and users' funds are safe.

Vanity Address Loses Almost $1M To Crypto Theft

A vanity address generated with Profanity has lost approximately $950,000 worth of cryptocurrencies in a recent attack. The attacker transferred the stolen ETH into the sanctioned mixer, Tornado Cash.

Wintermute Suffers $160M Loss in Recent DeFi Hack

Crypto market maker, Wintermute, has lost $160M in a recent hack in its DeFi operations. However, the company claims to be solvent as its CeFi and OTC operations are unaffected.‍

1inch Network Reveals Vulnerability In Profanity-Based Wallets

A security report compiled by 1inch Network claimed that an exploit in Profanity-based wallet addresses could allow hackers to calculate the wallets' private keys.

US Treasury Sanctions Iranian Hackers And Blacklists Their Bitcoin Addresses

US Treasury Department has blacklisted Bitcoin addresses belonging to Iranian hackers while sanctioning their owners. The hackers have been encrypting their victims' devices, forcing them to pay ransoms in Bitcoin.

Chainalysis Helps Recover $30M From Ronin Bridge Hack

Chainalysis aided law enforcement authorities in recovering $30M stolen from Axie Infinity by the Lazarus Group, the perpetrators behind the Ronin Bridge hack. 

Avalanche Targeted By A Flash Loan Attack

The Avalanche Blockchain was hit by a flash loan attack that allowed the hacker to manipulate the token prices and escape with $370K worth of USDC.

ShadowFi Loses $301K In A 2-Phase Attack On Its Liquidity Pool

ShadowFi lost 1,078 BNB tokens in a 2-phase exploit attack that drained the DeFi platform’s liquidity pool to $0.

Kyber Network Attacked By A Frontend Exploit

Kyber Network was hit by an exploit that targeted the KyberSwap frontend, with the perpetrator escaping with $265K in crypto assets.

Babylon Finance To Cease Operations By November 15

Babylon Finance will shut down its services by November 15 after failing to recover from the Rari hack. 

Bitcoin ATM Company Under Attack By Hackers Leveraging The Zero-Day Bug

General Bytes-owned ATMs have been exploited by hackers who remotely created an admin user account to steal funds.

Blockchain Investigator Claims Ronin Bridge Hackers Moved $625M To Bitcoin Network

The perpetrators behind one of the largest crypto hacks allegedly used Tornado Cash as one of the several means to conceal the transactions and transfer the $625M worth of USDC and Ethereum tokens to the Bitcoin network.

Celer Network’s cBridge Frontend Hit By DNS Hijack

Level 2 scaling protocol Celer Network is the latest target of crypto hacking as the platform reports seeing potential signs of a DNS hijack of its cBridge frontend.

Acala Network Suffers Security Breach, Passes Vote To Halt Operations

Acala, Polkadot’s decentralized finance network, had its protocols tampered with by hackers, causing it to pass an urgent vote to suspend operations until the issue is resolved.

BlueBenx Suspends Withdrawals Following $32M Hack

Brazilian crypto lending company, BlueBenx halts all crypto withdrawals after a recent hack.

Velodrome Accuses Former Team Member Of Stealing Funds During Recent Hack

Velodrome accused a former team member of being the culprit behind the theft of $350K from the team’s wallet in August.

BitMart Under FTC Investigation Over Security Breach

Crypto exchange firm BitMart is being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission due to a security breach on the platform last year. 

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Mango Market Exploit: A DeFi cybercrime disguised as “Good Intentions”

Market manipulation in the DeFi crypto world is almost a usual occurrence. The Mango Market exploit is just another in an endless list of exploits. Who are those involved, who's to blame and how can a future occurrence be prevented?

ApeCoin DAO May Delay APE Staking To Launch Bug Bounty Program

A proposal submitted to the ApeCoin DAO’s forum seeks to delay the launch of APE Staking, and instead, suggests allocating 1M APE tokens (worth $4.5M) as part of a bug bounty program.

Attacker Exploited over $100 Million from Solana's Mango Markets

An attacker exploited the DeFi Platform Mango Markets by manipulating oracle's price of MNGO tokens. Negotiations have commenced between the attacker and the platform.

Binance Halts BNB Smart Chain Following Over $100M Cross-Chain Bridge Exploit

Binance has halted its BNB Smart Chain (BSC) due to a $100 million to $110 million exploit on its cross-chain bridge. Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao, confirms the situation has been contained, and users' funds are safe.

Vanity Address Loses Almost $1M To Crypto Theft

A vanity address generated with Profanity has lost approximately $950,000 worth of cryptocurrencies in a recent attack. The attacker transferred the stolen ETH into the sanctioned mixer, Tornado Cash.

Wintermute Suffers $160M Loss in Recent DeFi Hack

Crypto market maker, Wintermute, has lost $160M in a recent hack in its DeFi operations. However, the company claims to be solvent as its CeFi and OTC operations are unaffected.‍

1inch Network Reveals Vulnerability In Profanity-Based Wallets

A security report compiled by 1inch Network claimed that an exploit in Profanity-based wallet addresses could allow hackers to calculate the wallets' private keys.

US Treasury Sanctions Iranian Hackers And Blacklists Their Bitcoin Addresses

US Treasury Department has blacklisted Bitcoin addresses belonging to Iranian hackers while sanctioning their owners. The hackers have been encrypting their victims' devices, forcing them to pay ransoms in Bitcoin.

Chainalysis Helps Recover $30M From Ronin Bridge Hack

Chainalysis aided law enforcement authorities in recovering $30M stolen from Axie Infinity by the Lazarus Group, the perpetrators behind the Ronin Bridge hack. 

Avalanche Targeted By A Flash Loan Attack

The Avalanche Blockchain was hit by a flash loan attack that allowed the hacker to manipulate the token prices and escape with $370K worth of USDC.

ShadowFi Loses $301K In A 2-Phase Attack On Its Liquidity Pool

ShadowFi lost 1,078 BNB tokens in a 2-phase exploit attack that drained the DeFi platform’s liquidity pool to $0.

Kyber Network Attacked By A Frontend Exploit

Kyber Network was hit by an exploit that targeted the KyberSwap frontend, with the perpetrator escaping with $265K in crypto assets.

Babylon Finance To Cease Operations By November 15

Babylon Finance will shut down its services by November 15 after failing to recover from the Rari hack. 

Bitcoin ATM Company Under Attack By Hackers Leveraging The Zero-Day Bug

General Bytes-owned ATMs have been exploited by hackers who remotely created an admin user account to steal funds.

Blockchain Investigator Claims Ronin Bridge Hackers Moved $625M To Bitcoin Network

The perpetrators behind one of the largest crypto hacks allegedly used Tornado Cash as one of the several means to conceal the transactions and transfer the $625M worth of USDC and Ethereum tokens to the Bitcoin network.

Celer Network’s cBridge Frontend Hit By DNS Hijack

Level 2 scaling protocol Celer Network is the latest target of crypto hacking as the platform reports seeing potential signs of a DNS hijack of its cBridge frontend.

Acala Network Suffers Security Breach, Passes Vote To Halt Operations

Acala, Polkadot’s decentralized finance network, had its protocols tampered with by hackers, causing it to pass an urgent vote to suspend operations until the issue is resolved.

BlueBenx Suspends Withdrawals Following $32M Hack

Brazilian crypto lending company, BlueBenx halts all crypto withdrawals after a recent hack.

Velodrome Accuses Former Team Member Of Stealing Funds During Recent Hack

Velodrome accused a former team member of being the culprit behind the theft of $350K from the team’s wallet in August.

BitMart Under FTC Investigation Over Security Breach

Crypto exchange firm BitMart is being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission due to a security breach on the platform last year.