Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platform Oasis said Friday it seized assets tied to last year’s $140 million exploit of the Wormhole bridge and returned them to an “authorized third party” after being …
Hard-to-spot Mac crypto-mining threat, XMRig, hits Pirate Bay
A new family of Mac malware that spreads through pirated versions of Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and other key creative apps has been identified by the Threat Labs team at Jamf. The new XMRig threat is …
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Launch Zone halts trading, transfer of native token following hack
DeFi protocol Launch Zone was hacked by DND exploiter on Feb. 27, leading to a catastrophic crash in its native token LZ’s value. Initially, the protocol warned people not to buy its token for the …
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Platypus Finance Hacking Suspects Arrested By French Police: Here’s How They Were Identified
Decentralized finance protocol Platypus Finance PTP/USD, which runs on Avalanche AVAX/USD, has confirmed that two individuals suspected of hacking their system have been arrested by the French …
The limitations of the EU’s new cryptocurrency regulations
The final vote on the European Union’s much-awaited set of crypto rules, known as the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation, was recently deferred to April 2023. It was not the first delay — …
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Platypus reveals compensation plan for users’ funds after attack
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Platypus has disclosed the details of a recent $9.1 million exploit, alongside its efforts to recover the funds and a compensation plan for victims. In a Medium …
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Cryptocurrency Account Security
Crypto-hacking and theft have been front and center in the news. Separate from the failures and alleged fraud of CeFi crypto-exchanges, estimates suggest that $3.8 billion worth of cryptocurrencies …
Crypto Wallet Firm Dfns Says ‘Magic Links’ Have Critical Vulnerability
Some magic links – a passwordless sign-in method embraced by a growing number of crypto wallets and web apps – have a critical vulnerability, according to the crypto wallet startup Dfns. Dfns offers …
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North Korean hackers move $3.2M from Gate.io 2018 hack
North Korean hackers stole $234.33 million from Gate.io in 2018. Earlier this week, the hackers moved 1944.72 Ethereum (ETH) of the stolen funds, worth around $3.2 million at current prices, on-chain …
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Is there any meaning in regulating the cryptocurrency market?
The crypto market is in an era of great polarization in which there are those who believe it is a great idea and those who firmly believe it is one of the worst products ever introduced to the …
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