NFT marketplace bug undervalues tokens, helps exploiter nab $750,000

According to an on-chain report on Saturday, September 30, an address associated with the FTX exploiter became active for the first time in 10 months. As earlier reported, some 5,000 ETH (equivalent to $8.2 million) was transferred from the flagged address (identified as 0x3e9) to new addresses on Saturday. However, in the latest development, blockchain data tracker Spot On Chain revealed that the FTX exploiter has moved more than $17 million worth of Ether tokens in the past 24 hours. FTX Exploiter To Keep Moving Stolen Funds, Spot On Chain Speculates In one of the most significant....

Forget March Madness, Mango Madness is in season this time of year. The Solana-based lending protocol has been a spectacle unlike any other throughout this week, and that’s certainly saying something considering the amount of antics crypto brings to the table on frequent occasion. Since our first covering of Mango’s exploit that led to a full-fledged drain of the protocol, things have only gotten more twisted and convoluted. Let’s take a look at how things have developed this week and where things go for Mango Markets moving forward. A Mango Monstrosity Mango’s....

Soon, Facebook and Instagram could let you use NFTs as a profile picture, and Meta is likely to build a non-fungible tokens marketplace where users can create and trade the collectible tokens. This could catapult the already booming industry into the mainstream, but it could also mean huge risks as the conglomerate gains more power […]

The stablecoin protocol saw its own governance proposal system exploited enabling the malicious actors to extract all of its $182 million in collateral. Credit-based stablecoin protocol Beanstalk Farms lost all of its $182 million collateral from a security breach caused by two sinister governance proposals and a flash loan attack.The problem for the protocol was seeded by suspicious governance proposals BIP-18 and BIP-19 issued on April 16 by the exploiter that asked for the protocol to donate funds to Ukraine. However, those proposals had a malicious rider attached to them which....

The individual who exploited the protocol intends to keep a 10% bounty of the stolen funds. Four projects have received some $7 million worth of tokens from the hacker behind the $14.5 million Team Finance exploit on Oct. 27. Over the weekend, the attacker confirmed in a series of messages that they would keep 10% of the stolen fund as a bounty and return the other tokens to the affected projects.The exploiter — a self-described “whitehat” — drained assets from Team Finance through the Uniswap v2-to-v3 migration. As reported by Cointelegraph, liquidity from Uniswap v2 assets on Team....