The attack exploited automated approval logic rather than a smart-contract bug — a reminder that the infrastructure built to extract MEV is itself becoming a high-value target.
The 30% exposure of AlphaUSDC Delta V2 to the frozen market turns a single collateral venue's liquidity crisis into a broader DeFi contagion test, with $8M in USDC already deployed and a…
Encrypted balances hid the shortfall for a week — the real cost is the absent monitoring layer and a $770K recovery window Axelar has declined to act on.
The swap into USDC and a centralized exchange is a classic laundering pivot — but the on-chain trail makes this one traceable, not invisible.
Binance Research said April DeFi exploits triggered roughly $13 billion in outflows, sharply compressing total value…
The drainer did not exploit a contract bug — it exploited user signing habits. The reminder list is unsexy, which is exactly why it keeps working.
The Mythos tier is the headline, but the auto-routing layer that funnels cyberattack and code-extraction queries down to Opus 4.8 is what DeFi teams will be reading closely.
A new risk framework for Aave is under proposal following an exploit involving KelpDAO, a liquid restaking protocol…
The Orchard counterfeiting vulnerability can't be ruled out from chain data alone, forcing Shielded Labs to propose a shielded-pool migration that resets shielded-state trust from scratch.
Hayes is the loudest voice in crypto calling out Zcash's trust model — his exit is the first time a major figure has priced in a privacy exploit as a deal-breaker rather than a bug.
Two separate flaws shipped in v1.72 — a gas-charging bug in the new address-balances feature, then a known risk in a rushed interim patch — combined to stall the chain three times in 36 hours.
Florent's rescue returns roughly $2M to original investors who had no path to the funds — a rare happy ending in an era dominated by exploit losses.
A developer has successfully recovered approximately $2 million in funds that had been trapped inside a 2016 ICO smart…
Sui's mainnet has suffered three separate halts, all traced back to bugs introduced during network upgrades — including…
The wipe wasn't a macro move or a token-specific catalyst — it was bad oracle data, and it liquidated 405 users in under half an hour.
Security researchers have flagged an active exploit targeting Stake DAO, in which an attacker minted trillions of…
Socket's TrapDoor disclosure named 34+ malicious packages across npm, PyPI and Crates.io targeting developer machines, CI/CD credentials and AI coding files — the control plane a smart-contract audit…
On-chain investigator ZachXBT has flagged a suspected exploit involving the UMA adapter contract used by Polymarket…
Echo, a BTCFi protocol building around an eBTC market on the Monad blockchain, has been exploited according to onchain…
A wallet linked to an Ethereum Name Service token unlock transferred 1.457 million ENS tokens — worth approximately…
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