The AI Bot That Talked Its Way to a Crypto Fortune
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…
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How Alleged North Korean Developers Helped Build the Cosmos Hub's Staking Module
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…
Compromised Vesting Contract Costs Tapioca DAO $4.4 Million on Arbitrum
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 …
Compromised Signers Let Attacker Loot $53M From Radiant Capital's Multi-Chain Markets
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…
Social Engineering, Not Smart Contracts, Is Draining Crypto Wallets
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…
After The Violence — How Crypto Culture Is Adjusting Its Risk Model
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 …
EigenLayer Loses 1.67 Million EIGEN Tokens to a Compromised Email Thread
EigenLayer, the restaking protocol widely credited with driving Ethereum's recent staking boom, disclosed a roughly $6 million token loss traced back to a compromised email exchang…
When Wallets Become Targets: Crypto Wealth's Growing Physical Toll
As cryptocurrency holdings have grown into life-changing sums, a parallel trend has emerged: criminals willing to bypass hacking entirely and extract funds through direct physical …
Miscalculated Exchange Rate Lets Attackers Drain $2M From Bedrock's uniBTC Vault
On September 25th, a flaw in Bedrock's uniBTC vault contracts allowed attackers to mint the token at a distorted exchange rate, draining roughly $2 million before the protocol coul…
Onyx Protocol Loses $3.8M in Second Exploit of Same Compound Bug
Onyx Protocol, a Compound v2 fork, was exploited a second time on September 26, 2024, this time for approximately $3.8 million. The attacker reused the same vulnerability class tha…
Telegram Message-Oracle Flaw Drains $3 Million From Banana Gun Traders
Banana Gun, a Telegram-based crypto trading bot marketed as secure, suffered a wallet-draining exploit on September 19 that ultimately cost users roughly $3 million. The first publ…
Shezmu Negotiates Return of $4.9M After Vault Exploit
Shezmu lost roughly $4.9 million from one of its vaults on September 20, in an incident that ultimately ended through direct negotiation with the attacker rather than a permanent l…
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