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16 Oct 2022 2 minute read 1 comment kev_nag $2.19
“When Wintermute, a cryptocurrency market maker, lost $160 million due to a hack, concerns related to the repayment of debt worth $189.4 million surfaced. However, in an exciting turn of events, Wintermute paid back its largest debt due Oct. 15, invo...
12 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist $0.41
I hope this nonsense does not escalate down this path, but as Russia continues to fail with their attempts to conquer Ukraine, Putin will become more desperate and want to lash-out at Ukraine’s biggest international supporters. Cyberattacks are a gr...
12 Oct 2022 4 minute read 1 comment MintDice.com $1.70
The alleged Thodex rug pull scheme made waves in the world of crypto back when it first happened. This scandal was one of the largest rug pulls in crypto history and led to the arrest of many Thodex officials, including the company’s founder. Are yo...
9 Oct 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist $0.86
On Sept 15th a curious teenage hacker looking for fun, compromised Uber in a serious way, gaining administrative access to the company’s massive cloud instance, development environments, tools, and even their access management server! The hacker jo...
7 Oct 2022 1 minute read 3 comments Drake Flyer $0.36
Crazy day huh? Putin just celebrated his 70th birthday with his companions and on another notice someone hacked Binance. Well, someone had to pay for the Putin's new presents. According to Zhao's post, the thieves made off with almost $100 million wo...
22 Sep 2022 3 minute read 1 comment kev_nag $0.94
Most crypto investors probably never heard of Wintermute Trading before the Sept. 20 $160 million hack, but that does not reduce their significance within the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The London-based algorithmic trading and crypto lending firm als...
21 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments CryptoJD $0.55
The UK-based cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute was the latest victim of DeFi hacks, losing approximately $160 million, according to Evgeny Gaevoy, the company’s founder and CEO. This is a huge loss for the company, and it’s yet another reminder...
3 Sep 2022 5 minute read 2 comments kev_nag $0.97
“After the Curve Finance exploit last month, the decentralized exchange (DEX) KyberSwap joins the list of DeFi projects to suffer a front-end exploit. On Friday, the Kyber Network, the liquidity protocol on which KyberSwap is built, confirmed reports...
18 Aug 2022 4 minute read 1 comment ssaurel $1.39
Inviolable, unfalsifiable, immutable … If Blockchain technology has many advantages over centralized servers, the Blockchain ecosystem is vulnerable to some hacking, and especially one in particular: the attack via bridges. According to the specializ...
15 Aug 2022 3 minute read 0 comments kev_nag $0.61
On Sunday, a hacker took advantage of a bug on the iBTC/aUSD liquidity pool which resulted in 1.2 billion aUSD being minted without collateral. This event crashed the United States dollar-pegged stablecoin to a cent, and in response, the Acala team...
