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Sui network-based Cetus Protocol has relaunched with a new roadmap, open-source plans, and a compensation programme following a $223 million exploit. The decentralized exchange unveiled its post-relaunch strategy in a June 8 blog post, outlining measures to enhance protocol security,…

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Nervos Network’s Force Bridge was hacked for $3.9 million in crypto, prompting an immediate shutdown as the team investigates the exploit. Blockchain security firm Cyvers Alerts first reported the incident in a June 2 post on X, noting that a…

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The Sui community has voted to unlock over $160 million in frozen assets following a major exploit of Cetus, a leading decentralized finance protocol on the network. In a May 29 post on X, Sui (SUI) confirmed that validators representing…

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Cetus, a leading decentralized exchange on the Sui network, has published a detailed post-mortem report following a $223 million exploit that targeted its concentrated liquidity market maker pools on May 22. In its May 26 incident report, Cetus explained that…

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SUI is trading at $3.62 at press time, down 1% in the past 24 hours, as the token struggles to recover from the aftermath of the $223 million Cetus Protocol hack on May 22. The attack, which is one of…


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Cetus Protocol, the largest decentralized exchange on the Sui blockchain, is offering a $6 million bounty to the hacker behind a massive $223 million exploit that occurred on May 22. In a May 22 follow-up statement accompanied by an on-chain…

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Decentralized finance platform Loopscale has reached an agreement with the hackers who exploited its system, securing the return of stolen funds in exchange for a bounty. In an Apr. 28 post on X, Loopscale confirmed that the hacker behind its…

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ZKSync has recovered over $5 million worth of tokens after a hacker accepted a 10% bounty in exchange for returning 90% of the stolen assets. On Apr. 23, ZKSync announced on X that the hacker had cooperated and returned the…

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The hacker behind KiloEx’s recent $7.4 million exploit has returned $1.4 million worth of USDT following days of silence. The update was shared by blockchain security firm PeckShield in an Apr. 18 post on X, confirming that funds linked to…

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Crypto wallet provider Phantom is facing a lawsuit after an alleged security flaw allowed hackers to steal over $500,000 worth of Wiener Doge memecoin tokens. The complaint, filed on Apr. 14 in New York by attorney Thomas Liam Murphy and…


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KiloEx, a decentralized perpetuals trading platform backed by YZi Labs, was exploited for approximately $7.4 million in a cross-chain attack. The attack was first flagged by blockchain security platform Cyvers Alerts on Apr. 14 at 7:30 PM UTC. The company…

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DeFi protocol Morpho App has confirmed its frontend is secure after reverting a faulty update that had led to a potential $2.6 million exploit, found and executed by a whitehat hacker. The vulnerability took place after a frontend update on…


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Filament, a decentralized exchange built on the Sei blockchain, has been hit by a major self-liquidation exploit. According to the platform’s post-hack statement shared on X, attackers took advantage of the platform’s order book system to steal around $572,000. The…


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The zkLend exploiter lost all 2,930 ETH in a phishing scam while trying to launder the stolen money using what they thought was Tornado Cash. According to a Mar. 31 post on X by Consensys-backed De.Fi Antivirus Web3, the attacker…

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Ethereum-based DeFi protocol SIR.trading, also known as Synthetics Implemented Right, was completely drained in an exploit on Mar. 30, losing all $355,000 of its total value locked. TenArmor, a blockchain security firm, was the first to report the attack on…

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Following a trading incident involving JELLY that resulted in a $10.63 million loss, Hyperliquid has introduced additional security measures. The problem resulted from a rogue trader who self-traded a sizable JELLY position, which caused a price spike, setting off a…
