Polter Finance, a lending protocol running on Fantom, lost approximately $8.7 million after an attacker manipulated the price feed used by its freshly launched BOO market. The prot…
A billion-dollar rift between a bankrupt exchange and the trader who once tested its defenses has spilled into court. FTX's estate has filed a last-minute lawsuit describing longti…
A single offhand remark on a podcast has reopened questions about coordinated insider trading among a group of prominent internet personalities during the 2021 CryptoPunks boom. Cr…
Barely two months after a $6 million private-key compromise, DeltaPrime was hit by a second major security failure on November 11, 2024. This time, an unchecked input validation fl…
M2 Exchange, an Abu Dhabi-based crypto trading platform, disclosed on October 31 that it had suffered a $13.7 million security breach — and, unusually, said the matter was already …
A networking meeting in Hong Kong that was supposed to center on career opportunities has instead become one of the more disturbing stories to surface from the crypto industry this…
An autonomous language model with no bank account, no legal identity, and no ability to sign its own transactions has nonetheless become one of the more talked-about actors in cryp…
A controversy engulfing the Cosmos Hub's Liquid Staking Module (LSM) has raised questions about whether alleged North Korean developers helped write core code now embedded in one o…
Tapioca DAO, a lending protocol built on Arbitrum, lost approximately $4.4 million after an attacker gained control of private keys tied to its smart contracts. Part of the stolen …
Radiant Capital, the multi-chain lending protocol, suffered its second major security incident of 2024 on October 17 when an attacker drained more than $53 million from user deposi…
Crypto's biggest attack surface in late 2024 has had little to do with faulty code. Repeatedly, all it has taken to drain a wallet is a single click: on a hijacked tweet, an unaudi…
This piece continues the discussion begun in Part One , which traced how crypto-related crime has evolved from purely digital attacks — phishing, extortion, wallet drains — toward …
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