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FCC robocall rule could make phone accounts a richer target for crypto attackers
The FCC’s proposed robocall rule, published May 26 under CG Docket Nos. 17-59 and 02-278, asks whether originating …
Ethereum’s Jaredfromsubway MEV bot drained after approving its own $7.5M theft
The Jaredfromsubway MEV bot, linked to roughly 70% of Ethereum sandwich attacks, lost more than $7.5 million in an al…
Notorious ‘sandwich attack’ bot Jaredfromsubway.eth exploited for $7.5M
Jaredfromsubway.eth was responsible for 70% of sandwich attacks on Ethereum between November 2024 and October 2025.
Secret Network’s Axelar bridge drained for $4.67 million in infinite-mint exploit that went unnoticed for seven days
Secret Network says about $770,000 of the stolen funds still sits in the attacker's Axelar wallet, and that Axelar de…
The DAO hack at 10: From $50 million exploit to a $130 million Ethereum security fund
Ten years ago, an attacker drained roughly 3.6 million ETH from The DAO, helping to spur the creation of the modern c…
Aztec investigates $2 million exploit of deprecated payments product
The immutable stage 2 rollup was sunset in 2022, and Aztec Labs holds no admin keys or control over the system, the t…
G7 calls for joint action on North Korean crypto theft, cybercrime
G7 leaders broadened their warning over North Korean crypto theft to include wider cybercrime as researchers link DPR…
Aztec hit by second $2.1M exploit in less than a week: SlowMist
Security researchers warn that deprecated smart contracts can remain vulnerable long after projects stop maintaining …
Deprecated Aztec Connect Contract Exploited For $2.19M, SlowMist Says
SlowMist says a deprecated Aztec Connect smart contract was exploited for $2.19 million, highlighting the risks left …
Aztec Connect’s abandoned smart contract exploited for $2.1M
The Aztec Connect platform was deprecated in March 2023, but the immutable smart contract still held over $2 million …
Humanity Protocol’s $36M hack tied to suspected North Korean hackers: Quantstamp
A fake Bithumb email used in the $36 million Humanity Protocol hack points to the involvement of North Korean threat …
Fireblocks Says Institutional ETH Staking Is Moving Toward Standardized Rails
Fireblocks says Ethereum staking is becoming institutional infrastructure as more than 36 million ETH is now staked a…
The next DeFi drain could come from legacy contracts everyone forgot
The Raydium AMM V3 exploit drained roughly $1.34 million from a phased-out program tied to five pools outside the cur…
Wallets linked to Humanity Protocol drained for over $32 million, token plunges 89%: onchain analyst
Out of the stolen amount, $23.7 million has been swapped for Ethereum, while around $7.9 million remains in H tokens.
DeFi’s old hack vectors are fading – But the new risk can hit six chains at once
Decentralized finance has gotten a lot safer over the past six years, and a new review of protocol losses from 2020 t…
AI-assisted Zcash flaw exposes the supply integrity gap an emergency fork could not fully close
The exploit that nearly broke Zcash originated inside the zero-knowledge proof circuit that powers Orchard, Zcash's n…
Immunefi says DeFi is ‘getting safer’ as exploit losses fall 74% from 2022 peak amid AI-driven security arms race
DeFi exploit losses fell 74% from the 2022 peak to $680 million in 2025, according to Immunefi, amid structural secur…
Mt. Gox-linked wallets moved 10,422 BTC, worth roughly $739 million as BTC price slides
Mt. Gox moved more than $700 million worth of Bitcoin while the market was already under stress, giving traders a fam…
Cosmos-based Gravity Bridge drained of $5.4 million in suspected key compromise, researchers say
The attacker took USDC, ether, tether and PAYG tokens before laundering a portion through ChangeNow and Binance.
Have AI agents made the entire $148 billion DeFi sector unsafe?
A warning from one of decentralized finance’s (DeFi) early security figures has turned a difficult stretch of hacks…
OpenZeppelin founder says he now considers ‘all of DeFi’ unsafe
OpenZeppelin's Manuel Aráoz said he has been privately advising friends and family to exit all DeFi positions.
Researchers flag TrapDoor malware campaign targeting crypto developer environments including Aptos, Sui and Solana
The TrapDoor malware campaign used malicious packages across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io to target crypto developer envi…
Polymarket suffers live POL drain as team rules out feared contract exploit
Polymarket faced what many users interpreted as a possible hack on May 22 after public alerts described a rapid POL d…
Verus bridge exploiter returns 4,052 ETH, retains $2.8 million bounty: onchain analyst
An attacker transferred 4,052.4 ETH worth $8.5 million back to Verus on Friday after the team proposed a bounty frame…
THORChain exploit turns emergency chain halt into a DeFi trust test
THORChain’s suspected multichain exploit and emergency halt on May 15 has turned into another DeFi security inciden…
It’s a ‘new era’ for crypto users who ‘trade anything and everything’ as Jito goes consumer, CEO Bruder says
Jito founder Lucas Bruder told The Block that there's a new class of users coming onchain who "want to trade anything…
‘It’s an unfair game’: CertiK CEO says DeFi attackers using AI to outspend defenders
CertiK says DeFi attackers are increasingly targeting operational security and supply-chain weaknesses instead of sma…
Chainlink CCIP gains over $2.5 billion in TVL from protocols migrating from LayerZero, with Kraken Bitcoin the latest to join
Kraken Bitcoin is at least the fourth product to deprecate its LayerZero cross-chain tech following the Kelp DAO attack.
Ripple insider warns XRP holders as fake airdrop scams surge across XRPL
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is seeing a drastic rise in fraud attempts targeting its users as the network draws more instit…
OpenAI’s new cybersecurity push has a lesson for crypto: stop waiting for the hack
OpenAI introduced a new cybersecurity initiative, Daybreak, on May 11, designed to find, validate, and help fix softw…