The 2022 crypto winter showed that the digital asset ecosystem is more interconnected than many participants realized, despite its core decentralization tenet
As 2021 came to a close, crypto enthusiasts were brimming with optimism. After all, it had been a banner year: Nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, had crossed into the mainstream. Tweets: @emilyjnicolle , @...
Sources: a senior Axie Infinity engineer was duped by a fake LinkedIn job ad before downloading a PDF containing spyware, leading to the $600M+ Ronin hack
Sources: a senior Axie Infinity engineer was duped by a fake LinkedIn job ad before downloading a PDF containing spyware, leading to the $600M+ Ronin hack
- Hackers duped a senior engineer at Axie Infinity into applying for a job at a fictitious company.
Elliptic: North Korea-backed hacking group Lazarus could be behind Harmony's ~$100M altcoin theft; the hack bore similarities to the $600M Ronin bridge attack
Margi Murphy / Bloomberg : Source: Elliptic Connect .
Axie Infinity developer Sky Mavis plans to restart its bridge and reimburse ~$216.5M in USDC and ether on June 28 to the victims of the $625M Ronin bridge hack
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk :
Axie Infinity developer Sky Mavis says it will reimburse a total of $216.5M in USDC and ethereum on June 28 to the victims of the $625M Ronin bridge hack
A total of $216.5 million in USDC and ethereum at today's prices will be returned to users. — Sky Mavis, the developer behind popular play …
Beanstalk, a credit-focused stablecoin protocol using Ethereum, was exploited for ~$182M in various crypto assets by someone who had amassed governance tokens
In what can only be sort of described as an attack, a “hacker” … Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Beanstalk DeFi platform loses $182 million in flash-load attack Scott D. Clary / Scott D. Clary's News...
The US Treasury says North Korea-backed hacking group Lazarus is tied to the theft of cryptocurrencies worth $600M+ from the Axie Infinity-linked Ronin bridge
Ronin was hacked for more than $600 million in crypto late last month. — The U.S. Treasury Department alleged …
Sky Mavis, which runs Axie Infinity, raises $150M led by Binance, with participation from Animoca, a16z, and others, to reimburse users after the Ronin exploit
Sky Mavis, the creator of play-to-earn game Axie Infinity, has raised $150 million to reimburse its users who lost funds during …