Tag: Exploit
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Memecoin Creators Exploit U.S. Election Mania, Create Thousands of New Tokens on Solana, Ethereum
There are, however, more established election-related memecoins including MAGA and the Kamala Harris-themed KAMA. Trading volume for MAGA, which launched in August 2023, has surged by 27% in 24 hours, taking its market cap above $150 million. KAMA rose by 150% on Nov. 1. It has since tumbled by 50% to an $11 million market…
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Radiant Capital Loses $50M to Second Blockchain Exploit This Year
Radiant, which is controlled by a decentralized autonomous community, or DAO, states on its website that its mission is to “unify the billions in fragmented liquidity across Web3 money markets under one safe, user-friendly, capital-efficient omnichain.” Source link
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Euler Returns With ‘V2’ After $200M+ Exploit in 2023
Euler, a DeFi lending protocol that suffered a $200 million-plus exploit in 2023, says it has reemerged with the launch of Euler v2, “a meta-lending protocol that enables unlimited use cases for on-chain credit.” According to the team, “the protocol will allow builders to create highly customizable borrowing and lending vaults that can be permissioned…
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Blockchain Protocol Nexera Suffers $1.8M Exploit, NXRA Token Price Tumbles 40%
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Terra Blockchain Restarts After Reentrancy Attack Leads to $4M Exploit
The blockchain halted at block height 11430400 for an emergency patch to fix the vulnerability. The fix was completed at 04:19 UTC. Validators, the entities that support the network, with over 67% of the voting power on Terra upgraded their nodes to prevent the exploit from recurring, according to a post on the X. Source…
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WazirX, Liminal Custody Blame Each Other as $230M Crypto Exploit Leaves Customers Stranded
The dispute centers around multisig wallets. Source link
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Defi Protocol LI.FI Struck by $8M Exploit
Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform LI.FI protocol has been hit by an exploit worth around $8 million following a series of suspicious withdrawals, on-chain data shows. Source link
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Crypto Exchange Kraken Says Hackers Used Bug Bounty Program for ‘Extortion’ After $3M Exploit
Nick Percoco, Kraken’s chief security officer, said in a post on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) that the firm received a “bug bounty program” alert from a security researcher on June 9 about a vulnerability that allows users to artificially inflate their balance. The bug “allowed a malicious attacker, under the right circumstances, to…
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Japanese Crypto Exchange DMM Bitcoin to Raise $320M to Repay Victims of Exploit
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Solana Meme Coin Factory Pump.Fun Compromised by 'Bonding Curve' Exploit
The exploiter may not be making any money from the attack. Source link
