Inside Job Suspected As Huobi Wallet Falls Victim To $263,000 Exploit
According to multiple reports, iToken, formerly known as Huobi Wallet, fell victim to a crypto heist in the last week, leading to the loss of $263,000 worth of users’ assets. The incident draws much attention following recent police investigations into some of Huobi’s former staff. Related Reading: TRON’s Justin Sun Reassures Crypto Community That Huobi Exchange Is Solvent $263,000 Drained From Huobi Wallet – Could There Be An Internal Involvement? Providing more insight on this latest exploit, prominent security firm Peckshield reported that this event occurred on....
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Rari's RGT token is plummeting on the news. After a $11 million attack earlier today, Rari Capital is the latest decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol to fall victim to a high-priced exploit The platform, which builds optimized yield vaults and boutique lending pools, confirmed the attack in a Tweet and said that a full postmortem is forthcoming:There has been an exploit in the Rari Capital ETH Pool related to our @AlphaFinanceLab integration. The rebalancer has removed all funds from Alpha in response. We are currently investigating the situation and a full report will be shared once....
Zabu Finance, a decentralized yield farming protocol on Avalanche, suffered the first big hack related to the chain. The protocol was the victim of an exploit that allowed an attacker to steal $3.2 million in tokens, according to reports. The core of the exploit happened due to a vulnerability in the design of the Spore token, which allowed the minting of 4.5 billion zabu that were successfully withdrawn from the platform, taking the value of the currency to 0.
Zabu Finance Suffers First Big Avalanche Hack
Zabu Finance, a yield farm decentralized protocol built on top of the Avax....
Two Fantom Foundation wallets on Ethereum and the Fantom Network have fallen victim to a phishing attack, losing over $650,000, according to reports from CertiK, a blockchain security firm. Another report by “Spreakaway” on X alleges that one of Fantom’s team members also lost $3.4 million. Fantom Foundation Falls Victim To Phishing Attack Fantom Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the growth and development of the Fantom ecosystem. On the other hand, Fantom is a scalable, layer-1 blockchain that is compatible with Ethereum. Like the....
Philippines-based crypto exchange Coins.ph is rumored to be the latest victim of an exploit that has potentially led to the loss of 12.2 million XRP ($6 million) for the firm. However, a part of these funds seem to have already been recovered. Related Reading: A Precious Rally: Bitcoin And Gold Revisit August Peaks Evidence Of […]
A representative from Bitfinex has indicated it has generated a new hot wallet on a failsafe machine. It expects deposits and withdrawals will be live soon, after the wallet has successfully synced. Popular bitcoin exchange Bitfinex today urged customers to halt deposits while it investigates a suspected hack. In a statement released this morning, the Hong Kong-based company said the keys to its hot wallet