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ForkLog 26 28.03.2024

Prisma DeFi Protocol Faces $11 Million Exploit

Prisma Finance, a liquid staking platform, has reported a “possible exploit” with potential losses estimated at $11.6 million. We are aware of a possible exploit on Prisma. Core engineering contributors will pause the protocol and investigate. We’ll share an update and a post-mortem. — Prisma Finance (@PrismaFi) March 28, 2024 The team has urged users […]

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ForkLog 21 28.03.2024

Dutch Prosecutors Seek 64-Month Sentence for Tornado Cash Developer

The Dutch prosecution has requested a 64-month prison sentence for Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev, accused of laundering $1.2 billion. This was reported by CoinDesk. The final verdict is scheduled to be announced on May 14. Pertsev is charged with conducting at least 36 illegal transactions through the crypto mixer from July 9, 2019, to […]

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ForkLog 39 27.03.2024

Hackers Pilfer $380,000 in Bitcoin from Ordinal Rugs Founder

The founder of the Ordinal Rugs project fell victim to a phishing attack, resulting in the theft of 1.47 BTC (~$102,500) and bitcoin “inscriptions” worth 4 BTC (~$278,000) from his hot wallet. Wallet Drained, A Port-Mortem… Earlier today I fell victim to a wallet drainer on one of my personal hot wallets, losing 1.47 BTC […]

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ForkLog 24 27.03.2024

Web3 Project Munchables Recovers $97 Million Lost in Hack

The gaming Web3 platform Munchables, built on the Ethereum Layer 2 solution Blast, suffered a loss of $97 million due to an exploit. The hacker returned the funds unconditionally. $97m has been secured in a multisig by Blast core contributors. Took an incredible lift in the background but I’m grateful the ex munchables dev opted […]

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ForkLog 18 26.03.2024

GitHub Users Targeted by Malware Aimed at Bitcoin Wallet Theft

Hackers have targeted GitHub users through a fake Python infrastructure, according to researchers at Checkmarx. Bro, what?? Over 170,000 users affected through a hijacked GitHub account used to spread info stealer #malware! This was a first-of-its-kind “mirror poisoning” attack where the attacker distributed a malicious #Python dependency hosted on a fake Python infrastructure by… pic.twitter.com/oi9pRArxQq […]

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ForkLog 40 25.03.2024

Curio Ecosystem Breached: Hacker Mints 1 Billion CGT Tokens

The DeFi project Curio has fallen victim to an attack, with experts from Cyvers Alerts estimating the damage at $16 million. ?ALERT?@curio_invest has experienced a $16M exploit involving a smart contract based on @MakerDAO within their ecosystem! The exploit appears to stem from a permission access logic vulnerability. The attacker leveraged this vulnerability to mint […]

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ForkLog 16 25.03.2024

Scammers Exploit BlockFi and FTX Creditors in Multi-Million Dollar Heist

An expert has uncovered a phishing scam allegedly targeting creditors of the bankrupt crypto firms BlockFi and FTX. In just five days, losses from the ongoing fraud have amounted to $7 million. With the help of a few friends, I’ve uncovered a rather sophisticated ongoing phishing scam carried out by one of PinkDrainer’s customers, with […]

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ForkLog 51 25.03.2024

ParaSwap to Reimburse Users Following Vulnerability Discovery

The decentralized exchange liquidity aggregator ParaSwap has commenced the process of reimbursing users after addressing a critical vulnerability in its newly launched smart contract, Augustus v6. White hack recovery update: Assets have been returned to wallets which have revoked their permissions If your wallet had assets transferred to 0x66e90d840d7c4f3473e25dd8ca361747058c6db0 and have not received them yet, […]

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ForkLog 32 22.03.2024

Kyrgyzstan’s Four Dragons Exchange Reveals Hack Details

Representatives of the Kyrgyz cryptocurrency exchange Four Dragons, which suffered a hack in late February, have disclosed some details of the incident investigation to ForkLog. According to them, unknown individuals stole USDT from the platform’s hot wallet during a major transaction. Four Dragons declined to disclose the amount of the loss, citing the confidentiality of […]

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ForkLog 51 22.03.2024

IFTTT Vulnerability Leads to Crypto Influencers’ Accounts Being Hacked on X

On March 21, several prominent figures in the crypto industry had their X accounts compromised to promote the scam token PACKY. It is likely that the hacker gained access through the IFTTT (If This Then That) auto-posting service. This is not me. Account hacked. Working to get it fixed. Don’t click any links from me […]

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ForkLog 45 22.03.2024

White Hat Hacker Exploits Telegram Game Super Sushi Samurai for $4.6 Million

The developers of the Telegram game Super Sushi Samurai have reported that a flaw in a smart contract allowed a hacker to withdraw $4.6 million from LP wallets. We have been exploited, it’s mint related. We are still looking into the code. Tokens were minted and sold into the LP. Transaction:https://t.co/F4XeqdyJu2 the exploited funds are […]

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ForkLog 13 21.03.2024

AirDAO Suffers $1 Million Platform Breach

The community-driven layer-one blockchain AirDAO has fallen victim to a hacking incident, resulting in the loss of 126.5 ETH (~$450,000) and 41.61 million AMB (~$512,000). The AirDAO team has identified a theft of 35.2m AMB tokens and 125.51 ETH from our AMB/ETH Uniswap pool. We are working with exchanges and relevant authorities to identify the […]

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