Victims seek refund as 3Commas CEO verifies API data leak

3Commas CEO Yuriy Sorokin confirmed that a hacker leaked his firm’s API keys in a Dec. 28 Twitter thread. Sorokin said the data published by the hacker was factual. According to him, the platform has reached out to exchanges like Binance, KuCoin, and others to revoke the keys connected to 3commas. Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’…

Binance freezes $3M from Ankr exploit

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao revealed on Dec. 2 that the exchange froze around $3 million of the funds from Ankr’s hack. Possible hacks on Ankr and Hay. Initial analysis is developer private key was hacked, and the hacker updated the smart contract to a more malicious one. Binance paused withdrawals a few hrs ago. Also…

Temple DAO hacked for over $2.3M

DeFi protocol Temple DAO lost over $2.3 million on Oct. 11 to a hack first spotted by Twitter user Spreekaway and confirmed by blockchain analytical firm Peckshield. #PeckShieldAlert Seems like @templedao got exploited. The exploiter funded from SimpleSwap and already transferred 1,831 $ETH (~$2.34M) to a new address 0x2B63d…B5A0 @peckshield https://t.co/bOyOARyyxY pic.twitter.com/SVEm8o95U6 — PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert)…

Harmony Protocol’s Horizon bridge exploited, $100M stolen

👋 Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! Layer-1 blockchain network Harmony Protocol (ONE) said on June 24 that a hacker exploited its horizon bridge, and roughly $100 million worth of tokens on the bridge were stolen. 1/ The Harmony team has identified a theft occurring this morning on the…

Hackers can steal crypto keys on Intel, AMD CPUs via ‘Hertzbleed’ vulnerability

👋 Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! New research shows that malicious players can steal cryptographic keys on Intel and AMD processors using a side-channel vulnerability attack known as ‘Hertzbleed,’ Tom’s Hardware reported. According to the researchers, attackers can steal Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cryptographic keys by monitoring…

ApolloX completes new funding round, gets hacked of $2.8M APX tokens

👋 Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! Wednesday, June 8, will remain a day to remember for the ApolloX management as the leading DeFi platform experienced a bitter-sweet moment. In the early hours of Wednesday, the crypto firm revealed it had raised an undisclosed amount in a funding…

Axie Infinity targeted in another hack, this time via discord bot

Axie Infinity has announced on its Twitter page that there was a compromise of the MEE6 bot on its Discord server. The MEE6 team has denied that there was an attack on its bot. The MEE6 bot is quite popular on Discord, with many servers using it for automating messages and other functions.  Axie Infinity…

Breakdown: How the hacker stole 80k ETH from the Solana Wormhole bridge

One of the worst hacks against the Solana blockchain happened on Wednesday when a hacker managed to transfer 80,000 ether (ETH), over $214 million at the moment of writing, out of the Solana system and into the Ethereum blockchain through the Wormhole bridge – a service providing the ability to transfer funds between the different…

NFT thief returns 88 ETH ($368,000) after stealing from CreatureToadz

Creature Toadz NFT project suffered a theft of around $340,000 when a hacker, posing as a moderator, convinced community members to send 88 ETH to an address he controlled yesterday. However, in a surprising turn of events, he returned all of the stolen assets to the project. Hacker defrauds Creature Toadz community members of $340,000…