Exchange, bridge, and protocol breaches where funds were stolen — incident reports and post-mortems.
A freshly created wallet identified as 0x128e has opened a 20x leveraged short position on 240,000 SOL, worth…
The bronze Satoshi Nakamoto statue in Lugano, Switzerland has been vandalized again, according to reports circulating…
For a decade, DeFi audited code. Mythos maps how small weaknesses in keys, bridges and oracles chain into systemic failures — and both attackers and defenders are already moving.
Raw dollar losses look similar — roughly $2.6B in TradFi and $2.8B in DeFi in 2025 — but volume-adjusted, DeFi loses at an 86x higher rate, and the marketing damage may outlast the math.
Litecoin executed a chain reorganization covering more than three hours of transaction history to neutralize its first…
Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli has derived a 15-bit elliptic curve key using a publicly accessible quantum…
The token topped CryptoRank's most-searched list after the 24-hour crash, with the two exchanges citing abnormal activity around last week's pump.
Whales pulled billions within hours of the exploit, instantly draining liquidity across ETH, USDT and USDC markets — a bank-run-style unwind of the largest DeFi lending venue.
A security breach at KelpDAO has escalated into a broader contagion event, with exploit activity reportedly spreading…
A single verifier-path failure let a fraudulent cross-chain message slip through, and the knock-on withdrawal cascade is now reading as a stress test of DeFi contagion plumbing.
The reframing aims to give attackers legal title to the frozen ether under a 19th-century fraud doctrine — the move that lets victims reach the funds at all, before a May 6 Manhattan hearing.
April was likely the worst month for DeFi hacks on record — a $295M Drift exploit and a similar-sized KelpDAO hit landed while State Street told Consensus Miami the rails aren't ready for…
If Kelp's Telegram screenshots hold, the $292M loss wasn't Kelp's misconfiguration — it was a verifier design LayerZero reviewed for 2.5 years, then blamed on the victim after Lazarus drained the…
A $3.8M seed pool and tokenized loss claims try to bridge a $295.4M gap — but relaunch as a security-first venue is the bigger industry test after Aave's Kelp DAO rescue.
April's Drift and Kelp breaches cost more than half a billion dollars combined, with no smart-contract bug — just months of social engineering that walked past every system built to flag a hack.
Contracts held, bridge didn't: WETH utilization hit 100% in 90 minutes, a seven-hour head start the Protocol Guardian's freeze couldn't recover.
The new 1–7 day freeze is the first major exchange feature aimed squarely at physical coercion, not phishing — and it lands as CertiK data shows 75% more wrench attacks in 2025.
Binance is rolling out a withdrawal lock — a setting that lets users freeze outgoing transfers without disabling their…
Terrorism-judgment creditors want the same 30,766 ETH that Arbitrum Security Council froze after the $292M Kelp DAO exploit — setting up a legal fight days before a vote to route the funds to victims.
Arbitrum's governance has voted to unfreeze $71 million in ETH as part of emergency containment measures following a…
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