Latest cryptocurrency market and DeFi events
DeFi protocol Wasabi suffered a security breach on April 30, with attackers draining over $5 million in assets across Ethereum, Base, Berachain, and Blast by exploiting a compromised admin key.
ZetaChain detailed a $333,868 exploit targeting its GatewayEVM contract on April 27. Meanwhile, Syndicate lost $330K through a bridge compromise, and Aftermath Finance on Sui was drained of $900K.
An attacker exploited a vulnerability in ZetaChain's GatewayEVM contract on April 27, causing an estimated $300,000 in losses. Singularity Finance was also hit the same day for $413,000.
Lending platform Scallop lost approximately 150,000 SUI after hackers exploited a deprecated rewards smart contract. The team pledged to cover 100% of losses from its own funds.
BinanceSecurityAttackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability on April 25 to launch a DoS attack on Litecoin mining pools, enabling invalid MWEB transactions that required a 13-block chain reorganization to reverse.
AnthropicSecurityA weekly roundup of major cybersecurity events: North Korean hackers leverage AI to steal cryptocurrency, the Bitwarden CLI npm package is compromised with an infostealer, and Ukrainian police bust a crypto extortion ring.
Attacks on Drift and Kelp triggered over $15 billion in DeFi outflows. A Jefferies analyst warns that major financial firms may slow their blockchain adoption efforts.
North Korean hacking group Lazarus Group is deploying modular macOS malware through fake video call invitations on Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet, targeting crypto and fintech companies.
AnthropicSecurityA group of forum members breached Anthropic's Mythos — an AI model designed to find vulnerabilities in operating systems and browsers. The company is investigating the incident.
Hackers exploited a vulnerability in the Volo liquid staking protocol on Sui, draining approximately $3.5M from WBTC, XAUm, and USDC vaults. The team has frozen contracts and recovered part of the stolen funds.
Unknown individuals impersonating Iranian authorities are demanding Bitcoin or USDT payments from shipping firms for safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz. At least one vessel may have already fallen victim to the scheme.
Arbitrum's Security Council froze 30,766 ETH stolen from Kelp protocol, igniting fierce debate over L2 decentralization. Aave faces up to $230M in bad debt as major players withdraw billions.
ENS gateway eth.limo regained control of its domain after a social engineering attack on registrar easyDNS, while cloud platform Vercel disclosed a security breach through a compromised AI tool.
BinanceSecurityLiquid restaking protocol Kelp suffered a $293M exploit through a vulnerability in its rsETH cross-chain bridge on LayerZero. AAVE dropped nearly 20% amid bad debt concerns.
The Ketman research project, funded through the ETH Rangers program, identified over 100 DPRK IT operatives embedded in Web3 organizations under fabricated identities over six months.
KrakenSecurityWeekly cybersecurity roundup: Kraken faces extortion after employee compromise, FBI recovers deleted Signal chats via iOS push notifications, $8.3M in hacker crypto assets seized in Ukraine, and new trojans target crypto users.
CircleSecuritySolana-based protocol Drift has secured $148 million from Tether and other partners to recover from a $295 million hack and compensate affected users.
Ledger has published its AI Security Roadmap 2026, outlining how the hardware wallet maker plans to secure digital assets as AI agents gain autonomous access to wallets and transactions.
A fraudulent Ledger Live app that passed Apple's App Store review was used to siphon over $9.5M in cryptocurrency from more than 50 victims across multiple blockchain networks.
BinanceSecurityA hacker exploited a vulnerability in the Hyperbridge cross-chain bridge smart contract, changed the admin of the Polkadot ERC-20 token contract on Ethereum, and minted 1 billion DOT tokens for $237,000. Separately, musician G. Love lost 5.9 BTC to a fake Ledger app.
Researcher Loïc Morel disclosed an off-by-one error in Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment mechanism that has existed since the network's launch and could theoretically enable mining blocks at extreme speeds.
AnthropicSecurityThe FBI reported record $21 billion in cybercrime losses for 2025, Google introduced hardware-bound session protection in Chrome, and researchers demonstrated three new attack methods targeting Nvidia GPU memory.
StarkWare's Chief Product Officer introduced Quantum Safe Bitcoin (QSB), a scheme that makes BTC transactions quantum-resistant using existing Bitcoin Script capabilities — no protocol upgrade needed.
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