Tagged: vulnerability

December 15, 2023 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jameson Lopp, co-founder and CTO at Casa, has shared key insights after the widely reported Ledger hack / security breach that appears to be impacting a large number of DeFi platforms and dApps, with some unconfirmed reports indicating major losses of crypto funds. Lopp, who… Read More

August 6, 2023 @ 12:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On July 30, 2023, several liquidity pools on Curve Finance were exploited, resulting in approximately $70 million in losses and triggering panic within the DeFi ecosystem, the team at Chainalysis noted. In a blog post, Chainalysis also mentioned that these hacks occurred due to “a… Read More

December 22, 2022 @ 8:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Group-IB, which claims to be one of the global cybersecurity leaders, has presented its findings about Godfather, an Android banking Trojan that is currently being utilized by cybercriminals “to attack users of leading banking and crypto exchange applications in 16 countries.” To date, Godfather has… Read More

December 28, 2021 @ 5:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

It was an eventful week for the Java Ecosystem and the Open Source communities: on December 9, 2021, a critical vulnerability was found in the widely-used Java Logging framework Log4j (version 2). The team at payments Fintech Adyen has shared details on some of the… Read More

December 28, 2021 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On Thursday, December 9, 2021, a “critical” zero-day exploit was reported in the widely used log4j2 library. The exploit “did not affect the Hedera network,” the platform’s developers claim while noting that “out of an abundance of caution, the Hedera team addressed the issue on… Read More