Crypto Market Maker Wintermute Pays Off $96M TrueFi Debt Weeks After Being Hacked
The TrueFi loan was one of the firm's largest outstanding known debts owed to a DeFi lending platform.
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Oct 14, 2022 at 8:45 p.m. UTC
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Blockchain Bridges Keep Getting Attacked. Here's How to Prevent It
Crypto bridges are soft targets providing some of crypto's largest exploits this year.
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Oct 14, 2022 at 8:43 p.m. UTC
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Mango Markets Community Counters Exploiter’s Settlement Offer
The initial offer appeared to have been rejected.
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Oct 14, 2022 at 3:46 p.m. UTC
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'Baby Al Capone' Agrees to Pay $22M in AT&T SIM-Swap Case
Ellis Pinsky, the hacker, was the point person in a scheme to steal about $24 million in cryptocurrencies while he was still in high school.
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Oct 14, 2022 at 11:53 a.m. UTC
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October Becomes Worst Month for Crypto Hacks With Two Weeks to Go
Over $718 million has been stolen from DeFi protocols across eleven different hacks this month so far, per research firm Chainalysis.
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Oct 13, 2022 at 8:49 a.m. UTC
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Crypto Sleuth ZachXBT’s Efforts Lead to Prosecution of Alleged Bored Ape NFT Scammers
The phishing scam, where people were defrauded out of millions of dollars worth of NFTs, was brought to light in August.
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Oct 13, 2022 at 7:25 a.m. UTC
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Crypto Hacks Fuel Memes of North Korea: Blockchain’s Biggest Baddie
"Funding secured for next missile launch."
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Oct 12, 2022 at 7:53 p.m. UTC
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BNB Smart Chain to Perform Hard Fork as Fix for $100M Exploit
The "temporary urgent patch" release will take occur at around 08:00 UTC on Oct. 12.
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Oct 11, 2022 at 3:21 p.m. UTC
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DeFi Protocol Temple DAO Struck by $2.3M Exploit
The hack equates to around 4% of Temple DAO's total value locked (TVL).
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Oct 11, 2022 at 3:01 p.m. UTC
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Binance Exec: BNB Smart Chain Hack Could Have Been Worse if Validators Hadn’t ‘Sprung Into Action’
Patrick Hillmann, chief communications officer at crypto exchange Binance, joined “First Mover” to discuss last week’s $100 million exploit and how validators prevented the worst-case scenario.
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Oct 10, 2022 at 4:49 p.m. UTC
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