White Hat Hacker Retrieves $5.4M for Curve Finance
An ethical hacker seized on July 30 almost 3,000 ETH, worth approximately $5.4 million, from a malicious hacker exploiting the recent hack of the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance.
An ethical hacker seized on July 30 almost 3,000 ETH, worth approximately $5.4 million, from a malicious hacker exploiting the recent hack of the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance.
Curve Finance, a popular decentralized exchange, confirmed today that $52 million was stolen over the weekend due to an exploitable bug in the Vyper language, which is used to write smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.
SlowMist experts have uncovered an attack that uses fake transactions to crypto exchanges.
Era Lend, a decentralized lending protocol running on zkSync Layer 2, was a victim of a reentrancy attack that resulted in a total loss of $3.4 million.
Hayden Adams, the creator of DEX Uniswap, had his Twitter account taken over by attackers on June 3.
The system has been hacked, resulting in the withdrawal of 202 assets from 123 addresses in the vault.
Analysts at PeckShield reported a hack on Arcadia Finance’s DeFi protocol, with the hacker managing to withdraw crypto assets with a combined value of roughly $455,000.

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