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Finance

Algorand Wallet MyAlgo Advises Users to Withdraw Funds After $9.6M Exploit

John Woods, chief technology officer of the Algorand Foundation, said 25 wallets were affected.

Two RPC interfaces for Polygon and Fantom were impacted in a DNS hijack attack. (Mika Baumeister/Unsplash)

Technologies

Crypto Con Artists Leave Trail of ‘Rip Deal’ Victims From Amsterdam to Rome

They invite you to a restaurant to ink an investment in your project, and then they vanish – with the contents of your crypto wallet. Scams have popped up over the last few years targeting crypto companies. European authorities are investigating.

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Vidéos

Chainalysis Examines Crypto Hacks In the Bear Market

A new Chainalysis report reveals that last year was the biggest annual period ever for crypto hacks, with roughly $3.8 billion stolen from crypto businesses. Chainalysis Director of Research Kim Grauer breaks down the findings, saying, "there are certain types of crimes are really connected to the bear market."

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Finance

Oasis Exploits Its Own Wallet Software to Seize Crypto Stolen in Wormhole Hack

The High Court of England and Wales ordered the crypto platform to reclaim the stolen funds.

Jump Crypto President Kanav Kariya (Danny Nelson)

Technologies

BlockTower Capital Loses $1.5M in DeFi Market Aggregator Dexible Exploit: Blockchain Data

The hacker exploited a weakness in a smart contract code, allowing them to drain funds from certain crypto wallets. Crypto “whales” accounted for 85% of the losses.

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Technologies

How Solvency Check Error Led to USP Depegging on Avalanche-Based Platypus Finance

Platypus Finance’s native stablecoin fell to 48 cents from $1 earlier on Friday following the attack.

(Boonchai Wedmakawand/Getty Images)

Technologies

Hacking Crypto Wallets Is Latest Strategy in Quest to Recover Lost Billions

A company called Unciphered works to recover lost crypto funds by auditing code and finding vulnerabilities in wallets.

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Juridique

FTX Being Advised by Cybersecurity Firm Sygnia on Hack Inquiry, CEO Ray Says

The crypto exchange’s current chief executive blasted weak cybersecurity controls at the company under Sam Bankman-Fried’s leadership.

FTX CEO John J. Ray III (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Juridique

Alleged Mango Markets Exploiter Eisenberg Is Working to Negotiate Bail Following First NY Court Hearing

Avraham Eisenberg has publicly admitted to draining $116 million from the crypto exchange.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

AllianceBlock Token Plunges 51% After $5M Exploit of Bonq DAO

New ALBT tokens will be minted and airdropped to the affected wallet addresses.

Cypher Protocol suffers exploit (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)