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Real-time reports and analysis of hacks, exploits, and vulnerabilities in the digital asset space.

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Coverage footprint 3.2% of all CryptoSlate stories

Laptop running code beside hardware wallet and USB key, illustrating how a single pip install could expose crypto wallets, Solana keys, and cloud secrets

Hackers sneak crypto wallet-stealing code into a popular AI tool that runs every time

Compromised LiteLLM versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 stole SSH keys, cloud creds, Kubernetes secrets, env vars, and crypto wallet material.

7 days ago

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Web3 ecosystem lost over $428M to hacks, scams in Q3 – Immunefi

The Nomad Bridge and Wintermute hacks account for 79.85% — $350 million — of all recorded losses.

3 years ago

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Transit Swap hacker returns $16.5M of stolen funds

Joint efforts of top security firms have lead to the hacker returning 70% of the $21 million stolen from Transit Swap's smart contract exploit.

3 years ago

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Wintermute hack replicated on simple laptop in under 48 hours by exploiting Profanity flaw

A standard M1 Macbook with 32GB of RAM was able to crack the Wintermute private key in less than 48 hours

4 years ago

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This MEV bot gained and lost over $1M in 1 hour

The hacker got the bot to approve his transaction and moved all the funds to another address.

4 years ago

Merge

Ethereum proof-of-stake client bug caught and patched without incident

Ethereum developers discovered a bug that could lead to EVM chains becoming stuck due to an excess gas error in the Besu client.

4 years ago

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White hat hacker grumbles over Arbitrum bounty reward after saving network from $475M loss

The white hat hacker believes his discovery deserves the full $2 million max bounty reward instead of only 400 ETH.

4 years ago

Hacker “self-destructs” $1 million made from DeFi exploit

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Ethereum vanity address exploit may be cause of Wintermute hack

It may take less than 2 months to brute force hack an Ethereum vanity address using a GPU mining rig.

4 years ago

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Wintermute reveals $160M hack in DeFi operations

Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy said the firm's Cefi and OTC operations were not affected by the hack.

4 years ago

Crypto trader exploits GMX, manipulates AVAX price to remove $565K

Trading 4 years ago

Ethereum PoW loses 200 WETH to Omni bridge vulnerability exploit

Mining 4 years ago

Dutch police arrest suspected Bitcoin thief by tracing transactions on blockchain

Crime 4 years ago

Ethereum lead developer saved Avalanche from over $24B ecosystem crash

Outage 4 years ago

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Hacks News

Hackers sneak crypto wallet-stealing code into a popular AI tool that runs every time

Web3 ecosystem lost over $428M to hacks, scams in Q3 – Immunefi

Transit Swap hacker returns $16.5M of stolen funds

Wintermute hack replicated on simple laptop in under 48 hours by exploiting Profanity flaw

This MEV bot gained and lost over $1M in 1 hour

Ethereum proof-of-stake client bug caught and patched without incident

White hat hacker grumbles over Arbitrum bounty reward after saving network from $475M loss

Ethereum vanity address exploit may be cause of Wintermute hack

Wintermute reveals $160M hack in DeFi operations

Crypto trader exploits GMX, manipulates AVAX price to remove $565K

Ethereum PoW loses 200 WETH to Omni bridge vulnerability exploit

Dutch police arrest suspected Bitcoin thief by tracing transactions on blockchain

Ethereum lead developer saved Avalanche from over $24B ecosystem crash