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An attacker has drained about $72,000 worth of STRONG and STRNGR tokens after taking control of StrongBlock’s abandoned on-chain governance system through a malicious proposal. According to blockchain security firm Defimon Alerts, the attacker acquired enough voting power in StrongBlock’s…
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Bitcoin onchain activity has reached its highest level of 2026 as researchers have linked the surge to the ongoing Coldcard wallet exploit, warning that similar spikes have historically coincided with local market turning points. K33 Research said nearly 890,000 BTC…
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Bridges move assets between blockchains using lock-and-mint, burn-and-mint, or liquidity pool mechanisms, but their trust assumptions have made them the most exploited category in crypto. Introduction Blockchains do not talk to each other. Ethereum cannot read Solana’s state. Arbitrum cannot…
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Blockchain asset management protocol Swan Treasury has suffered an estimated $625,000 loss after attackers exploited a leaked off-chain signer key to buy STY tokens at a steep discount before selling them for profit. According to blockchain security firm Defimon Alerts,…
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AFX has announced that it has prepared a goodwill plan for users affected by last week’s $24.15 million bridge exploit, with the recovery proposal scheduled for release on Aug. 3. According to an announcement shared by AFX, the decentralized derivatives…
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Ostium has concluded that its July exploit originated from compromised off-chain infrastructure rather than a flaw in its smart contracts, after an investigation found the attacker manipulated price reporting to drain 23.75 million USDC from the protocol’s liquidity vault. According…
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Garden Finance has temporarily taken its application offline after an attacker compromised the off-chain database of an independent solver, leading to the loss of solver-owned digital assets while leaving protocol contracts and user funds unaffected. Blockchain security firm Blockaid reported…
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Triple-A has confirmed that unauthorized access to its treasury wallets resulted in the loss of company-owned digital assets while stating that client funds and payment operations have remained unaffected. Triple-A said in a statement on Monday that it detected unauthorized…
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Triple-A’s hot wallets appear to have lost more than $9.7 million across several blockchains, with the suspected attacker swapping the assets and consolidating the proceeds on Ethereum. What happened to Triple-A’s hot wallets On-chain analyst Specter first identified suspicious transactions…
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Across Protocol’s Risk Labs-operated relayer lost less than $4 million after an attacker fabricated $41.7 million in Solana deposit events, according to a post-incident report released by the cross-chain protocol. Across attacker forged 1,627 Solana deposits The attack occurred between…
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Lien Finance has lost about $542,000 in USDC after an attacker exploited a flaw in its bond token logic to mint unsupported assets and drain liquidity from the protocol. Blockchain security firm SlowMist said the exploit targeted Lien Finance’s bond…
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Solana price has stalled near $76 after repeated failures at $80, as two ecosystem exploits, weak momentum, and geopolitical stress have kept traders cautious. According to data from crypto.news, Solana (SOL) price traded at $76.12 at the time of writing,…
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A TrustedVolumes attacker has returned 1,122 ETH worth about $2 million while keeping another $2 million as a self-declared bounty. According to Com Feed monitoring, the Ethereum transfer represents a partial recovery from the May exploit, which initially drained about…
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Hedera’s native token HBAR has fallen more than 2% after blockchain security researchers reported that a suspected exploit had moved more than $5.8 million in assets from the Hedera network to Ethereum. According to blockchain security researcher Specter, the suspected…
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Ctrl Wallet has announced the permanent shutdown of its services after a recent security exploit, giving users until Aug. 3 to move their crypto assets before core wallet functions go offline. Ctrl Wallet said in a blog post published Tuesday…
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Blockchains cannot talk to each other on their own. Bridges are the software that moves value between them, and they have leaked more money to hackers than any other kind of crypto infrastructure, billions across a handful of catastrophic breaches.…
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