Humanity’s $36 million exploit happened because a ‘multisig’ lived on one laptop

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Humanity Protocol explained how attackers were able to steal more than $36 million of its H token, and the cause was a serious lapse in how it secured its keys. In an incident update shared with CoinDesk, the decentralized identity project said the breach started when an employee’s laptop was compromised. The machine held several […]

ZachXBT flags $520K Polymarket exploit on Polygon, team says funds are safe

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Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has highlighted a suspected security breach involving Polymarket, the world’s largest decentralized prediction market platform. Over $520,000 was reportedly drained from two smart contracts on the Polygon blockchain, according to on-chain data shared by ZachXBT. The affected addresses are 0x871D7c0f9E19001fC01E04e6cdFa7fA20f929082 and 0x91430CaD2d3975766499717fA0D66A78D814E5c5, with funds allegedly sent to attacker address 0x8F98075db5d6C620e8D420A8c516E2F2059d9B91. Polymarket developers […]

Arkham says Aave raised $160 million of the $200 million it needs to cover exploit damage

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Lending platform Aave has raised about $160 million it needs to cover the $200 million in bad debt left behind by the year’s largest decentralized finance (DeFi) exploit, Arkham posted on X on Saturday. “AAVE have so far raised $160M to cover the bad debt from the Kelp DAO Exploit, at defiunited.eth,” the blockchain analytics […]

Millions in crypto funded tools to exploit U.S. software, Treasury says in new sanctions

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The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Russian company, Operation Zero, and the individuals behind it after accusing them of buying stolen cyber tools for millions in cryptocurrency and re-selling those technologies, which were created to be used by the U.S. government. The tools bought and sold by newly sanctioned Sergey Sergeyevich Zelenyuk and his […]

Bunni DEX Shuts Down Over $8.4M Exploit, Costly Recovery Road

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Bunni, a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on Uniswap v4, said it will close permanently two months after an exploit drained some $8.4 million in crypto and left the team without the resources to recover. In a post on X, the team behind Bunni said the cost to securely relaunch the protocol would run into “6-7 […]