Tagged: exploit

September 24, 2026 @ 3:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethical researchers appear to have done what many Coldcard victims had hoped for: they reached 52.37 bitcoin before thieves could empty the exposed wallets. Alex Thorn, Galaxy Digital’s (NASDAQ: GLXY) head of firmwide research, said those coins have now been gathered into a single address… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 5:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

An iOS whale-watching app that never asked users for a seed phrase has been tied to nearly $580,000 in stolen cryptocurrency after researchers found it could reach secrets stored by other apps on the same iPhone. Blockchain security firm SlowMist, working with OKX’s security team,… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 4:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A single on-chain actor appears to have struck two related artificial-intelligence crypto projects within minutes of each other on September 19, 2026, emptying a Fetch.ai conversion contract and inflating NuNet’s token supply in one coordinated burst. Security firms tracking the wallets say the same cluster… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross-chain protocol Symbiosis has said it reclaimed about 15 bitcoin after a vulnerability in its native Bitcoin Bridge was used on September 11. The team also extended a 20 percent white-hat bounty to the attacker, with a September 13 cutoff for a direct return of… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 4:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cronos, the Layer 1 network associated with Crypto.com, has released its official accounting of the August 30 attack on Tectonic. The review confirms that more than $9 million extracted during the incident remains outside the chain’s reach. Validators later rolled the ledger back and reversed… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 4:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockstream’s Liquid Network, a federated Bitcoin sidechain used by exchanges and institutions for faster settlement and confidential transfers, temporarily halted new activity after nearly the entire bitcoin reserve backing its L-BTC token left the federation wallet. On September 6, 2026, two transactions moved approximately 3,998… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 7:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cosmos Labs has recently acknowledged that it initially misclassified a critical flaw in Cosmos EVM, the shared software layer that lets Cosmos SDK chains support Ethereum-style applications. That error later enabled attackers to drain assets from six networks between August 20 and August 25, 2026…. Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On August 30, Cronos stopped producing blocks after Tectonic, the network’s main lending market, was emptied through a price-and-borrow sequence rather than a novel contract bug. On-chain researcher Weilin Li first estimated about $66 million in damage, then raised the figure to roughly $75 million… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 7:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fogo, a Layer 1 blockchain built around the Solana Virtual Machine, temporarily stopped mainnet activity after a security incident involving the project’s foundation. An unknown party gained access to foundation-controlled holdings and moved 400 million FOGO tokens to an external address. The transfer represents about… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 7:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Cronos blockchain, the layer-1 network closely associated with Crypto.com, stopped producing blocks on Sunday, August 30, 2026, after an exploit hit Tectonic, the chain’s dominant decentralized lending protocol. Validators coordinated a full halt within minutes of detecting the incident, freezing transfers, bridges, and smart… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Moonwell, a lending protocol on Base, said on August 27, 2026 that it was looking into a problem in its MAMO Core Market and had taken emergency steps to stop new loans. In its official statement, the team said borrow caps for every Core Market… Read More

August 26, 2026 @ 12:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinkite, the Canadian firm behind the Coldcard Bitcoin hardware wallet, has rolled out a significant firmware upgrade in the wake of a major security incident that saw substantial amounts of Bitcoin drained from affected devices. The company is urging owners to act promptly, highlighting that… Read More

August 24, 2026 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Ethereum-based fixed-rate lending platform Term Finance has suffered substantial losses after an attacker manipulated its governance system. Security researchers estimate the damage at around $8.5 million, with the majority of assets drained from the protocol’s specialized vault products on August 23, 2026. According to… Read More

August 22, 2026 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BounceBit, a Bitcoin restaking and yield platform, has announced the permanent closure of its independent Layer 1 blockchain. The decision follows a security incident in which an attacker exploited a protocol-level authorization vulnerability, transferring roughly 286.5 million BB tokens—valued at around $3 million at the… Read More

August 20, 2026 @ 2:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Maya Protocol, a decentralized cross-chain liquidity network that facilitates native swaps of assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum without centralized intermediaries or wrapped tokens, experienced a major security breach in mid-August 2026. An attacker combined multiple software vulnerabilities to manipulate the protocol’s internal accounting, withdraw… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 9:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Harmony Protocol, a layer-1 blockchain known for its sharded architecture, has announced plans to reverse its network to a state preceding a significant security breach. The decision follows the discovery of an unauthorized minting event that created trillions of forged ONE tokens, the project’s native… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 6:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hackers have been capitalizing on a critical flaw in Apple’s built-in remote desktop tool to seize control of internet-facing Mac computers and turn them into cryptocurrency mining machines. The Netherlands’ National Cyber Security Centre has confirmed active abuse of the issue, with attackers installing software… Read More

August 12, 2026 @ 4:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Developers behind the Harmony blockchain protocol have officially acknowledged a significant security breach that allowed the unauthorized generation of a large volume of additional ONE tokens, the network’s native digital asset. The confirmation comes after on-chain observers first highlighted unusual activity involving the sudden appearance… Read More

August 11, 2026 @ 4:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Following a significant security breach affecting the open-source Bitcoin payment platform, members of the BTCPay Server community have stepped forward with a substantial incentive aimed at reclaiming lost assets. Supporters of the project have pledged a recovery bounty structured as 10 percent of any funds… Read More

August 10, 2026 @ 9:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A significant security incident has struck Coinsbuy, a B2B cryptocurrency payment processing platform serving enterprises, merchants, and exchanges. On-chain investigators reported that wallets linked to the service were drained of approximately $7.9 million in assets spanning the Ethereum and TRON networks. #PeckShieldAlert Specter has reported… Read More