Security firm CertiK has flagged a suspicious transaction that drained roughly $2.19 million from the Aztec Connect Router contract, with the attacker’s wallet identified as 0x0f18d8b44a740272f0be4d08338d2b165b7edd17. The protocol in question was shut down three years ago, but the contracts were still sitting on-chain, and the funds inside them were still there. Aztec Connect was A Privacy Rollup To understand what happened here, some context matters. Aztec Connect was a privacy-focused zkRollup built on Ethereum, designed to allow users to interact with DeFi protocols with a degree of on-chain anonymity. It was a real product with real users but Aztec Labs
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The last three months of 2026 have become the most-hacked quarter in crypto history, with roughly 70 separate exploits draining about $746 million. A Record Built on Many Small Hits The second quarter of 2026 is already the most-hacked quarter on record, tallying about 70 hacks, which is roughly twice the previous record for the […]
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Humanity Protocol’s H token has crashed nearly 90% after wallets tied to the project were drained of more than $32 million, a breach onchain investigator ZachXBT says may have been “possibly staged.” A Private Key Breach Turns Into a Firestorm The exploit hit Humanity Protocol, an identity-verification network, early on June 9. According to onchain […]
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Decentralized finance protocol Aave recently revealed that it has fully restored liquidity to its lending pools following a $300 million cross-chain exploit. The Anatomy of the Exploit Decentralized finance ( DeFi) pioneer Aave has successfully restored full liquidity to its lending pools, capping off an aggressive multi-week stabilization effort following a $300 million cross-chain exploit […]
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On May 27, decentralized finance platform Stake DAO suffered an infinite-minting exploit on its Arbitrum protocol. However, Stake DAO core contributors quickly secured the mainnet funds backing the tokens, shut down the vsdCRV bridge, and successfully contained the exploit. Infinite-Minting Loophole Triggers Exploit Decentralized finance ( DeFi), platform Stake DAO confirmed May 27 that its […]
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The Sui blockchain experienced a nearly six-hour network stall, halting all onchain block production. The disruption marks the second major downtime event for the high-throughput network this year. Onchain Data Shows Block Production Halt for Sui Mainnet The Sui blockchain experienced a severe network stall, halting all block production for exactly five hours and 55 […]
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Malta-based stablecoin issuer StablR suffered a security incident on Sunday, after an attacker exploited a weak multisig configuration to mint millions of unbacked EURR and USDR tokens and dump them on decentralized exchange ( DEX) platforms. EURR Drops 24%, and USDR Falls 37% as StablR’s Two Stablecoins Depeg After Key Exploit Reports say the breach […]
]]>A cryptocurrency user, whose assets were stolen, has reignited the debate around user exchange culpability by offering $100,000 to blockchain investigator ZachXBT as a public bounty for finding his stolen funds. He claims 15 years of savings all vanished from a Trust Wallet account and were transferred to KuCoin which has been accused of ignoring requests from German cybercrime detectives. The emotional argument also reveals an ongoing problem in the crypto ecosystem where victims face challenges when stolen funds are followed to centralized platforms. The victim was able to monitor the state of assets, however attempts to get them back
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A self-replicating worm that hijacks GitHub Actions pipelines to publish malicious npm packages has struck again, compromising AntV, echarts-for-react, and Microsoft’s durabletask SDK. Mini Shai-Hulud Exploits GitHub Actions to Hit 16 Million Weekly Downloads The Mini Shai-Hulud campaign, attributed to the threat group Team PCP, does not work the way most supply chain attacks do […]
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