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Scorechain investigates the FTX hack

FTX suffered a hack, only hours after it had filed for bankruptcy on November 11, 2022. Ryne Miller, FTX US general counsel, confirmed on Twitter that the team was pausing trading and withdrawal functions due to unauthorized access to certain assets. He also clarified that FTX moved crypto assets to

Deribit loses $28 million after hot wallet hack

Deribit is a crypto exchange based in Panama and launched in June 2016. It’s a well-known cryptocurrency futures and options exchange that allows crypto traders to implement derivatives trading strategies for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), and Solana (SOL). On November 2nd, Deribit announced it had suffered a $28-million hack

Profanity tool exploit: $3+ million drained

Last week, hackers exploited a vulnerability in the vanity address generator Profanity and stole over $3 million in ETH and various ERC20 tokens. Profanity vulnerability exploit leads to $3.3 million in losses Profanity is a tool that can generate vanity crypto addresses on the Ethereum blockchain. On September 15, 1inch

Audius hack: 18 million AUDIO tokens stolen

Audius hack: exploit of the platform’s governance  On July 23, Audius, a decentralized music streaming platform, was exploited for $1 million. The Audius hack was due tcompromised bugised in the platform’s governance, staking, and delegation contracts. It allowed the hacker to exploit the platform’s voting system and change the amount

Lazarus group: OFAC sanctions crypto addresses related to North Korea cybercrime group

Last week, the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) added three crypto addresses from the Lazarus group to its Special Designated Nationals List (SDN List). Earlier in April, OFAC had already added the Ronin Bridge hack address to the list, as part of the group. OFAC’s latest designations targeting North

Liquid Hack: What We Know a Few Days After the Hack

Key takeaways: On Aug. 19, Liquid exchange announced it had suffered a hack on its Twitter account. The exchange reported several addresses linked to the hack and is investigating the funds’ movements. The hacker is depositing the funds on several crypto platforms. Here is what we know so far about

Poly Network hack: the largest DeFi hack to date. How to monitor the funds?

Poly Network hack is said to be the largest one in DeFi history. After establishing communication with the hacker, Poly Network started to receive some of the stolen funds back. In such cases, blockchain analytics tools are very useful to track and monitor the coins. What is Poly Network? First,

CEO of Nexus Mutual Hacked for $8M. Follow our investigation

A hacker has remotely modified the MetaMask wallet used by Nexus CEO Hugh Karp. He changed a transaction to send the CEO’s funds to his own wallet. The hacker has taken $8 million of Karp’s funds.1 #1 Hack transaction: 370000 NXM ~ 8 millions USD #2 wrap the NXM to wrapped