#Blockchain Vulnerabilities

Latest news on vulnerabilities found in blockchain protocols, decentralized applications, and cryptocurrency platforms.

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ForkLog 14 06.03.2021

Hacker Mints $160 Million Worth of PAID Network Tokens

The PAID Network, an Ethereum-based project, came under attack — due to an exploit in the smart contract, the attacker minted an additional $160 million worth of native PAID tokens.

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ForkLog 15 25.02.2021

Fed system outage highlights Bitcoin network resilience

US Federal Reserve System (the Fed) reported a technical outage that disrupted several services for hours. The cryptocurrency community seized the moment to highlight Bitcoin’s resilience.

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ForkLog 14 24.02.2021

PDAX asks users to return bitcoins purchased at $6,000

A technical glitch on the Philippine cryptocurrency exchange PDAX temporarily pushed Bitcoin's price to $6,000. The platform's management demanded that users return the thousands of bitcoins they had purchased.

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ForkLog 6 23.02.2021

User paid 25 ETH for Uniswap token approval

A user of the decentralized exchange Uniswap paid 25 ETH (~$37,000 at the time of writing) to approve transactions with the USDC stablecoin. This drew the attention of Groundhog's chief technology officer, Andrew Redden.

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ForkLog 10 08.02.2021

Curve Finance closes pool after vulnerability found in yVault2

The Curve Finance decentralised exchange team identified a vulnerability in the new yVault2 liquidity pool linked to the DeFi project yEarn.Finance. Users' funds were not affected, the developers said.

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ForkLog 9 05.02.2021

ArmorFi rewards white-hat hacker for uncovering a critical vulnerability

White-hat hacker Alexander Schlindwein identified a critical vulnerability in the smart contract of the decentralized insurance broker ArmorFi and received the promised reward, the project team said.

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ForkLog 37 05.02.2021

Hacker drains $2.8m from yEarn.Finance DeFi pool

On February 5, the yEarn.Finance team discovered and fixed a vulnerability in the v1 yDAI pool. An unknown attacker managed to withdraw part of the funds.

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ForkLog 28 02.02.2021

Developer explains fix for Bitcoin Core vulnerability

Early releases of Bitcoin Core software contained a vulnerability affecting client versions for Windows and Linux. This was reported by developer Andrew Chow.

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ForkLog 12 01.02.2021

Vulnerabilities in Apache, Oracle and Redis servers exploited for Monero mining

The Rocke hacker group attacked a number of unpatched cloud servers using the new Pro-Ocean malware for covert cryptocurrency mining. Palo Alto Networks researchers report this.

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ForkLog 15 28.01.2021

Bug in Apple devices could grant access to Bitcoin wallets

A vulnerability in Apple devices allows remote access. It potentially threatens cryptocurrency wallet users.

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ForkLog 30 02.01.2021

Critical vulnerability found in new DeFi protocol from yEarn.Finance founder

An exploit detected in the smart contract of the DeFi project yCredit, launched yesterday, allows draining all user funds, according to blockchain developer Nour Haridy.

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ForkLog 11 28.12.2020

Cover DeFi protocol token plunges 90% after attack

The Cover DeFi protocol token shed more than 90% in value after an unknown attacker exploited a vulnerability in the code and minted additional tokens.

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