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An Ethereum MEV bot known as Yoink has front-run an attempted Safe wallet exploit involving 2,900 rsETH, worth about $7.8 million, and paid nearly 19 ETH to secure the first position in the block. Yoink MEV bot takes the first…
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Balancer has proposed shutting down its decentralized exchange protocol and returning more than $9 million in remaining treasury assets to BAL holders after its post-exploit operating plan failed to generate enough revenue. Balancer Labs CEO Marcus Hardt laid out the…
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Cross-chain liquidity protocol Symbiosis has recovered approximately 15 BTC after an attacker exploited its Bitcoin Bridge, while its native bitcoin route remains suspended and affected liquidity providers await a compensation plan. Symbiosis said the security incident occurred on Sept. 11…
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Blockstream has refused to pay a ransom for roughly 598.5 BTC that remains under the control of the actors behind the Liquid Network exploit after 3,400 BTC was returned earlier this week. Blockstream said in an X post on Sept.…
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Cronos has confirmed that $9.19 million remains unrecovered after an attacker borrowed $120.4 million from Tectonic, while a validator-backed rollback reversed roughly $111.2 million in affected value. According to a post-mortem published by Cronos on Monday, the attacker manipulated the…
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Rocket has suspended deposits, withdrawals and trading after an attacker manipulated a dormant perpetual market and withdrew approximately $287,000 in positive PnL from the platform’s Bridge. Rocket said in a Sept. 7 update on X that the security incident occurred…
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Compromised keys, not broken code, now drive the majority of crypto theft, and North Korea is cashing the checks. Eight months into the year, and the crypto industry has already replayed the same failure mode enough times to fill a…
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Term Labs has recovered all fixed-rate loan positions held in vaults affected by its August governance exploit, with the final position moved on Aug. 25 as Meta Vaults and affected strategies remain shut down. Term Labs said in its latest…
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YAM Finance has faced a governance takeover attempt after an attacker accumulated enough delegated YAM voting power to submit a proposal that could hand over control of the protocol’s Timelock and put roughly $337,000 at risk. Defimon, the on-chain monitoring…
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RedStone has said Tectonic’s estimated $75 million exploit resulted from weak collateral controls rather than an inaccurate oracle after TONIC’s reported price rose about 100-fold in 20 minutes. RedStone co-founder Marcin Kazmierczak told crypto.news that the oracle accurately reported TONIC’s…
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Cronos has resumed block production after validators halted the network during an exploit targeting Tectonic and restored the chain state to a point before the attack. Cronos Network said the blockchain was fully back online after the validator set coordinated…
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Float Protocol has lost about $28,000, or 10.71 ETH, after an attacker used a flash loan to manipulate a Uniswap V3 spot price and exploit how its Hypervisor contracts calculated liquidity provider share values. SlowMist said on Aug. 31 that…
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CCC token on BSC has suffered an exploit that caused an estimated $117,000 loss after an attacker manipulated the token contract’s sell() function and burned tokens held in its liquidity pool. According to blockchain security firm TenArmorAlert, its monitoring system…
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The Sandbox has contained a cross-chain bridge vulnerability that allowed an attacker to mint unbacked SAND on Base and BNB Smart Chain, with the project estimating the direct impact at less than 0.01% of the token’s 3 billion supply. The…
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The Kelp DAO bridge exploit did not just steal $292 million. It triggered the largest infrastructure migration in DeFi history, and the math shows LayerZero may never recover the lost ground. On April 18, 2026, an attacker forged a cross-chain…
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BTCPay Server supporters have backed a recovery bounty equal to 10% of funds retrieved from a recent Lightning wallet exploit, with the reward capped at 3 BTC if all stolen assets are recovered. The BTCPay Server project said on Monday…
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