Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2024
Crooks stole nearly $10 million from the wallet of one of the co-founders of the video game Axie Infinity and the related Ronin Network. Cybercriminals stole about $10 million from the wallet of Jeff “Jihoz” Zirlin, who is one of the co-founders of the video game Axie Infinity and the related Ronin Network. On February […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 04, 2022
The cryptocurrency bridge Nomad is the last victim of a cyber heist, threat actors stole almost $200 million of its funds. Another crypto heist made the headlines, threat actors stole nearly $200 million worth of cryptocurrency from the bridge Nomad. Nomad Bridge is a cross-chain bridge between Ethereum, Moonbeam, Avalanche, Evmos and Milkomeda. The project […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2022
Hackers have stolen over $250,000 in Ethereum from Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), this is the third security breach it suffered this year. Threat actors compromised Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) for the third time this year, they have stolen and sold NFTs, making away with 142 ETH, equivalent to over $250,000. The hacker conducted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2022
Credit-based stablecoin protocol Beanstalk discloses a security breach that resulted in the loss of all of its $182 million. The decentralized, credit-based finance system Beanstalk suffered a security breach that resulted in financial losses of $182 million. Researchers at blockchain analysis firm PeckShield reported that the attackers have stolen $80 M for the hacker. PeckShield first reported […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2022
Threat actors have stolen $325 million in cryptocurrency leveraging a bug in the Wormhole communication bridge. Wormhole, one of the most popular bridges that links the Ethereum and Solana blockchains, lost about $325 million in an attack that took place on Wednesday. This is the second-biggest hack of a DeFi platform ever, just after the $600 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2021
CyberNews researchers found that front-runners are abusing decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges by draining hundreds of millions in crypto from trader transactions on the Ethereum network. Unsuspecting traders can lose as much as $280 million to front-runners each month. Original post on CyberNews: https://cybernews.com/crypto/flash-boys-2-0-front-runners-draining-280-million-per-month-from-crypto-transactions/ As the price of bitcoin and Ether reached unprecedented highs in the past […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2020
Threat actors have stolen $2 million worth of Dai cryptocurrency from the cryptocurrency borrowing and lending service Akropolis. Cryptocurrency borrowing and lending service Akropolis disclosed a “flash loan” attack, hackers have stolen roughly $2 million worth of Dai cryptocurrency. The attack took place on November 12, in response to the attack the platform halted all […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2020
Security expert discovered a Google Chrome extension named Shitcoin Wallet that steals passwords and wallet private keys. Harry Denley, director of security at the MyCrypto, discovered that the Google Chrome extension named Shitcoin Wallet is stealing passwords and wallet private keys. The Google Chrome extension was injecting JavaScript code on web pages to steal passwords and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2019
Security researchers from SRLabs have published a report that analyzed the risks for Ethereum network caused by unpatched Ethereum clients. Researchers at SRLabs published a report based on ethernodes.org data, that revealed that a large number of nodes using the popular clients Parity and Geth is still unpatched. The expert discovered that the Ethereum clients and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2018
Cybercriminal group has managed to steal a total of 38,642 Ether, worth more than $20,500,000, from clients exposing the unsecured interface on port 8545. Cybercriminals have raked over 20 million dollars in the past few months by hijacking poorly configured Ethereum nodes exposed online are continuing their operations. In March, security experts from Qihoo 360 Netlab […]
