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ForkLog 64 15.04.2025

Binance Resumes Withdrawals Following AWS Outage

The cryptocurrency exchange Binance has resumed withdrawals, which were temporarily halted due to a disruption at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center. The team is working to fully restore the platform’s operations. All services are starting to recover and resume. Withdrawals have also reopened. Please note that some services might experience delays while the […]

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ForkLog 183 13.03.2025

Ledger Identifies Vulnerability in Trezor Wallets

The hardware cryptocurrency wallet manufacturer Trezor has addressed a vulnerability in its Safe 3 and Safe 5 models. The issue was identified by the research team of its competitor, Ledger, as reported by the company’s CFO, Charles Guillemet. At @Ledger, you might know that we have the @DonjonLedger, our dedicated team constantly conducting open security […]

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ForkLog 62 07.03.2025

Outdated 1inch Smart Contract Vulnerability Leads to $5 Million Loss, Hacker Returns Assets

On March 5, the 1inch team identified a vulnerability in the outdated Fusion v1 smart contract. The flaw resulted in losses of 2.4 million USDT and 1276 wETH (~$2.7 million), according to the company SlowMist. March 10, 2025 | 13:48Update: In comments to ForkLog, 1inch lawyers clarified that the attack targeted specific resolvers (market makers) […]

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ForkLog 71 21.02.2025

Bybit Exchange Suffers $1.46 Billion Loss in Hack

Cryptocurrency detective ZachXBT reported suspicious outflows exceeding $1.46 billion from Bybit accounts. Shortly thereafter, Bybit CEO Ben Zhou confirmed suspicions of a hack. Bybit ETH multisig cold wallet just made a transfer to our warm wallet about 1 hr ago. It appears that this specific transaction was musked, all the signers saw the musked UI […]

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ForkLog 52 05.02.2025

Ripple Explains XRP Ledger Outage

On February 4th, the XRP Ledger network resumed operations after an outage lasting over an hour, confirmed Ripple’s CTO David Schwartz. The network is now recovering. We don’t know exactly what caused the issue yet. Super-preliminary observation: It looked like consensus was running but validations were not being published, causing the network to drift apart. […]

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ForkLog 14 04.02.2025

Canadian Accused of Stealing $65 Million from KyberSwap and Indexed Finance

U.S. authorities have charged Canadian Andean Medjedovic with fraud, hacking, attempted extortion, and money laundering in connection with the theft of approximately $65 million from DeFi projects KyberSwap and Indexed Finance. In October 2021, the accused allegedly exploited a vulnerability in the rebalancing mechanism of Indexed Finance’s smart contract code, using “hundreds of millions of […]

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ForkLog 36 31.01.2025

Ethereum Developers Address Vulnerability in Leading Client

The team behind the Ethereum client Geth, written in the Go programming language, has released version 1.14.13, codenamed Schwarzschild. ?PSA: go-ethereum emergency release? We released v1.14.13 today which fixes an issue introduced in 1.14.0. If you are running a version of geth that 1.14 or later, please update to the newest version. Nodes running v1.13.x […]

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ForkLog 21 27.12.2024

ChatGPT Faces Another Global Outage

On December 26, ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s API experienced their second outage this month. The services were down for over four hours. Most of ChatGPT, the API, and Sora have been down for a couple of hours and we’re sorry for the trouble this is causing. We’ve identified the issue and have started recovery. We […]

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ForkLog 83 21.12.2024

Trust Wallet Developers Resolve Bug Affecting User Balances

The team behind the cryptocurrency wallet Trust Wallet has resolved a bug that temporarily caused token balances to disappear and reappear, leading to inconvenience and frustration among many community members.

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ForkLog 20 12.12.2024

User Disables 69% of Dogecoin Nodes

On December 12, Andreas Kohl, co-founder of the Bitcoin sidechain Sequentia, reported that he managed to disable 69% of the Dogecoin network nodes by exploiting a previously discovered vulnerability. Oops I just did a thing and I think I might have just crashed more than half of all doge nodes… pic.twitter.com/04NcRtj5k1 — Andreas Kohl (@aejkohl) […]

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ForkLog 39 06.12.2024

Expert Highlights Potential $756 Million Vulnerability in Sky

William Morriss, founder of VM Capital, criticized Sky (formerly MakerDAO) for utilizing an EOA to store $756 million in USDC reserves within the LitePSM mechanism. @SkyEcosystem (formerly MakerDAO) is letting an EOA custody 756M USDC for their “Lite PSM”. As far as I can tell, that account can rug the full balance any time. — […]

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ForkLog 15 30.09.2024

Zilliqa to Implement ‘Permanent Patch’ Following Recent Disruptions

On September 27 and 29, the Zilliqa blockchain encountered two errors, prompting developers to temporarily halt transactions to address the issues. #Zilfam, We’ve encountered another issue with the network. We apologise for any inconvenience, and appreciate all the feedback / reports. We have identified the bug and will resolve the issue as soon as possible. […]

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