Hacks, exploits, scams and the state of crypto security.
US prosecutors filed five civil forfeiture cases seeking $25M+ in crypto tied to romance and investment scams, with Secret Service tracing funds to Southeast Asian launderers.
Zilliqa has asked exchange partners to pause all ZIL deposits and withdrawals after a suspected cold wallet compromise at an unnamed partner. Amount stolen unknown.
The Ostium OLP vault exploiter has routed 10,540 of 12,080 stolen ETH through Tornado Cash after a $24M Arbitrum hack revised up from $18M, per PeckShield.
Allbridge Core paused its cross-chain bridge after a flash loan attacker manipulated the stablecoin pool exchange rate and drained roughly $1.65 million in a single transaction.
The attacker behind May's $5.87M TrustedVolumes DeFi exploit sent back 1,122.12 ETH (~$2.07M) on July 17 — roughly 35% of stolen funds — with no official statement from the protocol.
Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers pleaded guilty in a UK court to the 2024 Transport for London hack and a $115M ransomware campaign tied to Scattered Spider.
Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers sentenced to 5.5 years at Woolwich Crown Court for hacking TfL and roles in Scattered Spider's $115M crypto ransom scheme.
Leaked Suno source code reveals 2 million YouTube clips and 62,000 hours of Pond5 audio scraped for AI training — the most concrete evidence yet of the company's data practices.
SummerFi is winding down after seven years following a $6M flash-loan exploit on its Lazy Summer Protocol vaults. Here's what happened and why it matters for DeFi.
Logan Paul and Coffeezilla (Stephen Findeisen) have settled their CryptoZoo defamation lawsuit out of court, with no terms publicly disclosed.
