As digital riches skyrocket, so too do opportunistic predators, emerging from the dark corners of cyberspace into our reality. Welcome to the new wild west, where your seed phrase might just be the combination to your coffin. Is your crypto making you a target?
Bedrock just got a lesson in why you should always double-check your math homework. In a twist that would make even a quantum physicist's head spin, their uniBTC vault decided to play fast and loose with exchange rates, turning Ethereum deposits into a $2m Bitcoin bonanza.
Another Compound v2 fork that just can't catch a break, Onyx Protocol, has been exploited again. This time, the damage tally stands at a cool $3.8 million, siphoned off by the same high-profile vulnerability that bit them late last year.
Banana Gun slipped on a $3 million Telegram peel, proving once again that in DeFi, even your bot can go bananas. Another day, another protocol got caught with its pants down. Banana Gun, the supposedly secure Telegram trading bot, got royally split.
Shezmu's vault became the latest battleground where $4.9 million vanished faster than a mirage in the desert. But in a twist worthy of a crypto thriller, the saga unfolded not with a bang, but with a negotiation.
In a plot twist that's becoming all too familiar, another CEX found their hot wallets compromised. BingX learned a costly lesson in the dangers of hot wallet management and the persistence of sophisticated hacking groups.
Another day, another private key compromise. DeltaPrime Blue on Arbitrum suffers $5.98 million loss in private key compromise. Whispers of a notorious nation-state hacker group are already circulating through the cryptosphere.
In the high-stakes game of crypto exchanges, Indodax just crapped out. Over $25 million vanished faster than you can say rupiah in the latest episode of Centralized Exchange Calamities - Southeast Asian Edition.
Imagine investigating crypto criminals for a living, only to find yourself detained in Nigeria after accepting an invitation for a compliance meeting. This is the reality for Tigran Gambaryan, where a business trip took an unexpected turn.
The crypto world never sleeps and neither do its hackers. In the latest episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire - DeFi Edition, Penpie has found itself on the wrong end of a $27 million exploit.
A betrayed blockchain expert becomes the ultimate insider threat. When code is law, who truly holds the power? The builders or the breakers? Explore the dark side of Defi with this new work of fiction by Rekt News.
Telegram's Durov was recently arrested in Paris. Is he a free speech martyr or digital crime lord? While we champion privacy, are we overlooking the blurred lines of digital freedom? The thin line of privacy just got thinner.