losses of more than USD 11 million

The failure was in the validation of the financial support, according to Blockaid. PeckShield says there have been 8 bridge attacks since mid-May. The bridge that links the Verus and Ethereum networks was drained for approximately USD 11.58 million in an attack carried out on May 17, according to the on-chain cybersecurity firm Blockaid. The … Read more

THORChain claims no user funds were lost after the hack

A malicious node would have leaked cryptographic keys to access THORChain vaults. RUNE, THORChain’s native token, fell 18% in the last 24 hours. The THORChain decentralized protocol team indicated today, May 16, that “no user funds were lost” after the hack suffered yesterday, in which the platform suffered outflows of more than USD 10 million. … Read more

Aave reactivates rsETH after Kelp DAO hack

Aave reactivated the rsETH markets on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Linea and Mantle this May 14, 2026, once again allowing withdrawals and operations with the token after almost three weeks of freezing caused by the Kelp DAO hack. The measure returns access to users who kept funds or collateral locked in rsETH and comes after Aave, … Read more

Nequi account in X is hacked to promote cryptocurrencies in Colombia

The cryptocurrency messages did not compromise customer capital or data. The company reinforces its access and recalled that its internal systems operate completely normally. Security on digital platforms is not always uniform, and a new incident in Colombia highlights this. This Wednesday, May 13, the official account on X (formerly Twitter) of Nequi, the digital … Read more

Vitalik Buterin was the target of an on-chain attack on Ethereum, what happened?

The bot deployed $1.14 million in capital to extract between $5 and $15 from the trade. Buterin proposed encrypted mempools in March as a solution to these types of attacks. A wallet associated with Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, was the victim of a type of on-chain attack called a MEV (maximum extractable value) sandwich, … Read more

You must revoke these contracts to protect your Binance wallet

Attackers exploited a vulnerability in a Radiant Capital smart contract. The affected networks were BNB Smart Chain and Arbitrum, L2 of Ethereum. Radiant Capital, a decentralized finance (DeFi) app, was attacked on October 16 by hackerswho managed to extract more than $50 million from the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) and Arbitrum (ARB) networks, Ethereum’s largest … Read more

$43 million in different cryptocurrencies were stolen

Cryptocurrency exchange BingX suffered a hack that resulted in the loss of $43 million in various crypto assets, including thousands of ether (ETH), BNB, and millions of MATIC tokens, among others. Cybersecurity firm PeckShield was the first to report about this attack, highlighting that most of the funds stolen were extracted from the Ethereum and … Read more

Binance warns of malware that compromises bitcoin withdrawals

Binance has issued an alert about a “global threat” from hackers. According to the exchange’s security team, the attackers are reportedly running malware capable of stealing cryptocurrencies through compromised applications. “We have identified a global malware issue that is significantly impacting cryptocurrency transactions by altering withdrawal addresses during the transaction process.” Binance According to the … Read more