MetaMax marketed itself as an easy path to passive income: watch advertisements, rate content, get paid. Operating across countries including the Philippines, Afghanistan and Cypru…
Blockchain networks are frequently marketed as cryptographically secure by design, but the pattern of incidents through the first half of 2024 suggests the weakest point in crypto …
On July 2, 2024, Bittensor's network suffered an $8 million security incident traced to a compromised package on the Python Package Index (PyPI). The attacker used the tainted pack…
Blockchain security firm CertiK is facing a wave of criticism following a controversial episode involving Kraken, with researchers now raising separate concerns about how the compa…
Crypto's promise of fast profits keeps drawing in new participants who struggle to separate legitimate opportunities from projects built on hype alone. The current cycle has been d…
A Solana-based meme coin called $DJT, rumored to be connected to former President Donald Trump and his family, became the center of a controversy after Martin Shkreli — the pharmac…
A vulnerability disclosure between security firm CertiK and exchange Kraken has spiraled into a public dispute, with each side accusing the other of extortion and intimidation. Acc…
Lending protocol UwuLend, founded by Sifu , the former CFO of Frog Nation, lost $19.4 million on June 10, 2024, after an attacker exploited a flaw in the way its markets priced col…
Velocore, a decentralized exchange built for layer-2 networks, lost more than $6.8 million on June 2nd after an attacker exploited a weakness in its Balancer-style constant-product…
A Japan-based centralized cryptocurrency exchange, DMM Bitcoin, was exploited for more than $304 million worth of Bitcoin, making the incident the largest crypto hack since Decembe…
Meme coins, the breakout trade of March's crypto rally, have come roaring back, riding the wave of optimism around a potential Ethereum Spot ETF approval. Far from fading as a one-…
A compromised admin account on the GALA token contract allowed an attacker to mint 5 billion new GALA tokens — worth roughly $216 million on paper — and rapidly sell off 592 millio…
Get new scam files the moment we publish them — usually 2–3 emails a week.