DeFi Protocol bEarn Suffers $11M Flash Loan Attack

It's another day, and another DeFi flash loan exploit has reared its head. The latest victim is bEarn, which lost $11 million in stablecoins on May 16. The post DeFi Protocol bEarn Suffers $11M Flash Loan Attack appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Yet Another DeFi Exploited for Millions: Major Warning from Researcher

Value DeFi has one of its modules drained for $11,000,000. Seasoned researcher Igor Igamberdiev reveals the attack scenario

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Bitcoin (BTC) Recovers for Another Attack on $50,000

Bitcoin is expected to eventually be successful in reclaiming this level and continue moving upwards. Bitcoin in Recovery After bouncing on March 1, BTC decreased slightly the next day. It created a small bearish candlestick in what looks like a regular retracement in response to the previous increase.

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UK cryptocurrency exchange EXMO suffers another DDoS attack

EXMO suffered its second distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in two months and says it… The post UK cryptocurrency exchange EXMO suffers another DDoS attack appeared first on Coin Journal.

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SushiSwap Suffers Another Attack. Hacker Steals 81 Eth

This resulted from the exploitation of a system flaw leading to a successful hack. The perpetrator made off with part of the platform’s fees for the day. The SushiSwap Smart Contract Loophole The system vulnerability was spotted on Badger DAO token DIGG.

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DeFi Hackers Bag More Millions in Another Flash Loan Attack

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Ethereum Classic suffers another 51% attack

It’s the third attack this month.

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Yet Another Balancer Attack for ‘Unclaimed’ COMP; DeFi Liquidity Provider to Reimburse Hack Victims

It hasn't been 24 hours since the news about a $500,000 hack on Balancer came that a new attack has claimed $2,300 worth of the hot Compound tokens (COMP). Hao, a hacker and engineer at DeBank, a DeFi wallet took to Twitter to share how this time as well, someone used Andreessen-funded dYdX to flash […]

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‘Hacker’ Trolls Ethereum DeFi Project, Returns some Funds with a Message

The decentralized finance and lending protocol Lendf. me suffered an attack recently. In an interesting turn of events, some of the funds were actually returned with a message for the project. The DeFi community is scrambling to make sense of yet another theft.

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DeFi App Hits ‘Pause’ Button After Losing $25m in Funds, Despite ‘Decentralization’

Another decentralized finance (DeFi) platform temporarily hit the pause button due to an attack. $25M was drained from the smart contract. Hacks and exploits in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi) seem to be increasingly more common.

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Bitfinex Completes Another $100M Loan Facility Repayment to Tether

Hours after experiencing a major DDoS attack, Bitfinex announces repayment of another $100 million of the loan facility to Tether

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Investor Loses $45 Million In Bitcoin (BTC) And Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Via A SIM-Swap Attack

A hacker has drained the account of a Chinese whale of approximately $45 million in a SIM-swap heist. For those in the dark, a SIM swap attack is an act of porting a user’s mobile number to another SIM card in the possession of a hacker without the user’s knowledge.  The bad actor is then […]

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DeFi Platform bZx Attacked Again, 2388 ETH Siphoned by Hacker

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending platform bZx has reportedly suffered another attack with the hacker making off with a profit of 2,378 ETH (about $645,000). bZx Hits Pause Following Suspected Attack In a tweet published on Tuesday (February 18, 2020), bZx acknowledged suspicious transactions involving flash loans.

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Italian cryptocurrency exchange announces hacker attack, all funds lost

Altsbit, a cryptocurrency exchange operating in the Italian market, fell victim of a hacker attack. All funds, including those of customers, were stolen. Another exit scam is suspected.

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Researchers Extract Seed Phrase From Trezor Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets in Minutes

Researchers have gone public with another security flaw in a hardware wallet. This time, Kraken Labs exposed an attack against the popular cryptocurrency cold storage systems offered by Trezor. The attack takes around 15 minutes to complete.

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Bitcoin Gold Suffers Another 51% Attack with $72,000 Double-Spent

Bitcoin Gold (BTG) has suffered another 51% network exploit with the attacker reportedly double-spending $75,000 in BTG tokens. Details of the Bitcoin Gold 51% Attack According to MIT crypto researcher James Lovejoy, Bitcoin Gold, one of the Bitcoin hard forks is once again the victim of a 51% attack.

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Bitcoin Gold undergoes 51% attack yet again!

Bitcoin Gold [BTG], which is another hard fork coin of Bitcoin, recently underwent a 51 percent attack which costs approximately 7,167 BTG or $72k. This was revealed by James Lovejoy, President of MITThe post Bitcoin Gold undergoes 51% attack yet again! appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Wawa Data Breach Provides Another Case for Cryptocurrencies

Wawa, a convenience store chain based on the East Coast of the United States, has recently suffered a big data breach. For the past nine months, the company’s databases have been under fire from an attack and they have little idea as to who carried it out.

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Dow Cringes After Trump Unleashes Devastating China Rebuke

The Dow suffered a vicious setback on Tuesday after President Donald Trump unleashed a devastating tweetstorm rebuking China for its behavior throughout the trade war. The attack, which came just as the two countries were on the cusp of resuming face-to-face negotiations following a frosty standoff, sent another chill through Wall Street.

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Monero security flaw could’ve seen XMR stolen from cryptocurrency exchanges

Privacy-focused altcoin Monero has suddenly disclosed nine security vulnerabilities — including one that could have allowed hackers to steal XMR from cryptocurrency exchanges. Until March, rogue Monero miners were hypothetically able to create “specifically-crafted” blocks to force Monero wallets into accepting fake deposits for an XMR amount chosen by the attacker.

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Tens of US Watchdogs Ask Congress to Halt Facebook’s Libra Development Until the Hearing

Coinspeaker Tens of US Watchdogs Ask Congress to Halt Facebook’s Libra Development Until the HearingIn another attack on the Libra developments, 33 lawmakers have requested Congress to ask Facebook to stop further development on Libra before they answer all their concerns and questions.

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Florida Man Fired After Lake City Suffers Massive Ransomware Attack

A city in Florida paid out around $460,000 in a bitcoin ransom scheme, about a week after another Florida city paid around $600,000. Lake City’s IT Director Brian Hawkins has been fired as a result of the breach, which shut down the city’s critical digital infrastructure.

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Ransomware: Another U.S. City Pays Hackers Over $500k in Bitcoin  

The leaders of Lake City, a city of less than 70,000 people, located in central north Florida’s Columbia County, have paid the sum of 42 bitcoin (about $523k at press time ) to the hackers who orchestrated the catastrophic ransomware attack that totally crippled the area’s online processes two weeks ago, according to a ZDNetRead MoreRead More.

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Can We Trust the Facebook Consortium?

It has been a busy two days for Facebook as the social media giant earned the attention of the world following the launch of its project Libra. As of late, a Hong Kong programmer lanced another attack on the project’s governance structure, highlighting a dangerous vulnerability.

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Yet another cryptocurrency mining botnet caught targeting China

It seems we can’t go more than a week without news of a new cryptocurrency mining malware or botnet being discovered. This time, security researchers have uncovered another Monero mining botnet that’s targeting China.

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Bitcoin Isn’t Cypherpunk, Craig Wright Rants in Attack on Julian Assange

By CCN: The man who claims to be Bitcoin’s inventor wants to rewrite history by erasing the cryptocurrency’s cypherpunk past. Writing in yet another blistering blog post, Craig Wright claimed he left the cypherpunk movement in the 1990s after growing tired of the antics of Julian Assange.

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TRON (TRX) tries to make friends with Buffett

Soon after the another attack of Warren Buffett (Warren Buffett, 88) against crypto, another enthusiast of crypto will try to turn the Oracle from Omaha in our midst. Justin Sun, the founder and CEO of TRON, won the auction for the lunch with Buffett.

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Binance: Monero Household Mining Unprofitable, Vulnerable to 51% Attack Post-Hard Fork

By CCN: Monero recently hard-forked once again to stave off ASIC miners, who take over the network after a time and are disliked by the Monero community. Monero would prefer to be a CPU and at-most GPU coin, which is mined by the people who use it.

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Tron (TRX) Price Analysis and Prediction 2019 – Minor Pullback After A Solid Run (June 3rd Update)

4H TRXBTC After TRX bottomed out at 306 satoshis and launched a mini bull run, to the local high of 404 sats. A stronger pullback sent it below to 344 and it hovered around 351 sats. TRX then launched another attack at the 404 sats resistance and even managed to temporarily smash it to reach […] The post Tron (TRX) Price Analysis and Prediction 2019 – Minor Pullback After A Solid Run (June 3rd Update) appeared first on CaptainAltcoin.

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Tron (TRX) Price Analysis and Prediction 2019 – Bitcoin Plummet Stopped TRX’s Run (May 31st Update)

4H TRXBTC You can see a clear trendless ranging on 4hr timeframe after TRX bottomed out at 306 satoshis and launched a mini bull run, to the local high of 404 sats. A stronger pullback sent it below to 344 and it hovered around 351 sats.

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Tron (TRX) Price Analysis and Prediction 2019 – Entering Bullish Trend On All Timeframes (May 27th Update)

4H TRXBTC You can see a clear trendless ranging on 4hr timeframe after TRX bottomed out at 306 satoshis and launched a mini bull run, to the local high of 404 sats. A stronger pullback sent it below to 344 and it hovered around 351 sats.

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Weekly MasterNodesPro YouTube Update 05/27/2019

For this weeks episode of Masternode Monday :Yet another hack has happened with Bitcoin this week resulting in about 100k worth of BTC looted from an engineering manager at Crypto-currency Custodian Bitgo, who could have prevented this attack with the right precautions. He talked about all the ways he could

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Infographic: An Overview of Compromised Bitcoin Exchange Events

The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.

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Ethereum (ETH) Price Prediction 2019 – Plotting Another Offensive On The $275 Resistance (May 20th Update)

Mid May Update: Technicals 4H ETHUSD After ETH smashed lower resistances and reached the bigger obstacle in the form of $274-278 level it stalled and suffered a heavier than expected pullback. It bounce back from the $231-235 zone (Fib786) and is back in attack right now – hanging about $260.

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ChainLink (LINK) Price Analysis and Prediction 2019 – Teetering At An Important Support Level (May 16th Update)

Mid May Update: Technicals 4H LINKBTC LINK had a nice run but got stopped at the Fib50 at 11938 and it is now retracing back to the Fib236, gathering pace for another attack at the breakout level of 11938.

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Grayscale Reports $3.2 Million Average Weekly Investments in Bitcoin Trust

The first quarter of 2019 was bullish for the digital asset management firm Grayscale Investments and the company is gearing up to have another run. According to a first quarter “Digital Asset Investment Report” from the company, published on May 13, 2019, product inflows from Grayscale Investments grew by 42 percent over Q4 2018.

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It Looks as if Another Darknet Market Era Is Coming to an End

Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending. Two of the biggest digital black markets seem to be disappearing, both at the same time.

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Healthcare has a massive cybersecurity problem, and we’re not doing enough to fix it.

Not long ago, it was reasonable to think that financial businesses would be the most prominent and most profitable targets of criminal activity. After all, a successful bank robbery could score you tens of thousands of dollars (or more).

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Electrum Faces Another Fake Wallet Attack, Users Reported to Lose Millions of Dollars

Bitcoin wallet Electrum faces an ongoing DoS attack on its servers that reportedly caused losses of millions of dollars to date

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‘Morally Bankrupt Pathological Liars’ – New Zealand Privacy Chief Rips Facebook

Another week another stinging put down for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his team after they were labeled “morally bankrupt pathological liars who enable genocide,” by John Edwards, New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner, following the Christchurch attacks.

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On Collusion

Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.

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Dow Soars While Fed Chair Powell Reels from Vicious Trump Attack

The Dow roared at Wednesday’s opening bell, clawing higher as the US stock market seized on another round of bullish trade war news. However, the index quickly turned volatile as Wall Street grappled with Donald Trump’s latest vicious assault in his ongoing war with the Federal Reserve.

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4 ways social media platforms can stop hateful content after terror attacks

The deadly attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 50 people were killed and many others critically injured, was streamed live on Facebook by the man accused of carrying it out.

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Dr Doom Does it Again: Bitcoin and Crypto People Are Arrogant Zealots and Fanatics

In another scathing attack on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies Nouriel ‘Dr Doom’ Roubini has labeled individuals involved in crypto and blockchain as total zealots and fanatics about this new asset class.

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Grim Stories of Ethical, Privacy Abuses Emerge About Coinbase’s New Partners

When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.

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Bank of Valletta: €13M Cyberattack Highlights Bitcoin’s Strength

Yet another financial institution, Malta’s Bank of Valletta, has fallen victim to a cyber attack, rendering many clients, both individuals, and businesses, unable to access their funds. A week after the attack, the issue reportedly persists, highlighting the need for decentralized and stable alternatives.

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Coinmama Suffers Hack as 450,000 Users’ Information Compromised

In yet another high-profile hack of 2019, Coinmama saw the information of 450,000 of its users compromised in an attack that targeted 24 difference sites, according to reports from February 15, 2019.

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Is It Time to Take an Initiative to Decrease Bitcoin’s Block Size Seriously?

Whilst debate raged throughout the Bitcoin community over whether the block size limit should be increased and how, Luke-jr for years stood out for arguing the exact opposite position.

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Metronome (MET) Keeps Faith in Ethereum Classic (ETC) Network Even After a 51% Attack

Greed and capitalism have had a long and co-dependent relationship. However, human greed knows no bounds and people are always scheming to profit, regardless of the legality of the operation. From Ponzi schemes to outright theft, no industry is isolated from them, January 5th was just another reminder of this fact. At the start of […]

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