An attacker drained over $600,000 from Polymarket, attacking its UMA CTF Adapter sensible contract on Polygon, with on-chain investigator ZachXBT flagging the exploit and figuring out the attacker’s pockets as 0x8F98075db5d6C620e8D420A8c516E2F2059d9B91. ZachXBT issued an emergency alert first on his Telegram channel, adopted by Bubblemaps warning customers to pause all Polymarket exercise because the platform’s losses…
Step Finance, a serious Solana DeFi platform, confirmed a number of treasury and price wallets had been compromised by a complicated attacker throughout Asian Pacific buying and selling hours, ensuing within the theft of roughly 261,854 SOL tokens value roughly $30 million. The breach despatched shockwaves by the Solana ecosystem as blockchain safety agency CertiK…
Scroll co-founder Ye Chen’s X account was hijacked in a complicated phishing operation the place attackers posed as platform staff to focus on crypto business figures. The compromised account, which instructions substantial affect amongst crypto leaders, started distributing fraudulent messages claiming copyright violations and threatening account restrictions until customers clicked on malicious hyperlinks inside 48…
A classy attacker who compromised a multi-signature pockets and stole $27.3 million has now laundered $19.4 million via privateness protocol Tornado Cash whereas sustaining a leveraged buying and selling place value practically $10 million. The incident, first detected by blockchain safety agency PeckShield, marks the newest in a sequence of main exploits concentrating on crypto…
Ledger, a {hardware} pockets producer, which has traditionally been recognized by the status of retaining crypto belongings offline, has suffered one other information publicity incident and has introduced again previous worries relating to the privateness of shoppers and third-party danger within the business. On January 5, 2026, blockchain researcher ZachXBT revealed that the non-public data…
An energetic cross-chain exploit is draining lots of of crypto wallets throughout a number of EVM-compatible blockchains, with losses exceeding $107,000 and climbing because the assault continues. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT flagged the incident in the early hours of Friday, warning that victims are dropping comparatively small quantities per pockets (usually below $2,000), whereas the foundation…
Polymarket has confirmed {that a} latest wave of pockets drains affecting consumer accounts was attributable to a safety vulnerability tied to a third-party authentication supplier, following days of complaints from customers who stated their balances had been emptied after unexplained login makes an attempt. The decentralized prediction market platform stated the problem has now been…
Blockchain safety researcher ZachXBT has disclosed that GANA Payment, a cryptocurrency mission working on BNB Smart Chain, suffered a serious exploit leading to losses exceeding $3.1 million. The attacker efficiently laundered a good portion of the stolen funds by means of Tornado Cash on each BSC and Ethereum networks, whereas roughly $1 million stays dormant…
Over $116 million in crypto belongings have been drained from Balancer Protocol, marking one of essentially the most extreme decentralized finance (DeFi) exploits of 2025. At roughly 9:12 AM on Monday, blockchain analytics agency Lookonchain first raised the alarm, reporting that Balancer had been exploited for $70.6 million in crypto belongings. Initial knowledge revealed that…
A US-based crypto holder misplaced $3.05 million value of XRP after their Ellipal pockets was compromised, with stolen funds traced to cash laundering networks linked to Huione, a sanctioned Southeast Asian criminal marketplace. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT conducted a four-hour evaluation revealing that the attacker executed over 120 Ripple-to-Tron conversion orders by Bridgers alternate on October…