Crypto Exchange Bitmart Loses $196M in Funds after Latest Hack
The hacker exploited the Bitmart hot wallets hosted on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. It was a classic case of “transfer-out, swap, and wash”.
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The hacker exploited the Bitmart hot wallets hosted on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. It was a classic case of “transfer-out, swap, and wash”.
Days after MonoX lost $30 million to a security breach, BadgerDAO has suffered the same fate, losing over $120M in stolen assets.
Aside from the added security, Coinbase also gains a foothold in one of the world’s top tech hubs. The deal enables Coinbase to establish a research facility in Isreal.
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The company will be adopting a new name as it planned to sell its FireEye Products business to Symphony Technology Group.
The US will work together with other nations to detect any illicit activity to make the internet a safe place for others.
Leshner revealed that the bug that happened as a result of the upgrade exposes another 2020,472.5 COMP tokens. Some developers referred to the event as the biggest ever fund loss in a smart contract incident.
Although pNetwork is already fixing the problem, the BSC DeFi platform has promised the hackers $1.5 million if they return their hack loot.
The attacker whom Delong suspected to be a Twitter user with the handle @eratos1122 notably carted away with the entire sum generated from the token sale.
According to some of the sources, there were a total of seventeen transactions and two attackers involved in the attack.
With a team of other security auditors, Manning will work to fortify Nym against surveillance by discovering new privacy leaks.
The Poly Network hackers returned $342 million worth of tokens back, claiming that they only hacked the network to highlight vulnerabilities.
Hackers have now started to return the funds from the Poly Network which were stolen from the company.
The hack saw cross-chain Poly Network lose ETH, BNB, and USDC, worth hundreds of millions, larger than the 2014 Mt. Gox exchange hack.
The crypto proponent website has experienced a DDoS attack that comes a week later after a UK court had decreed the website to stop hosting BTC white paper.