An synthetic intelligence (AI) safety agency went public with a Ledger Ethereum app bug. Ledger says it had already mounted the flaw quietly, two weeks earlier. Chief know-how officer Charles Guillemet known as the disclosure fear-mongering. The patch shipped on August 12 with a one-line observe and no safety bulletin. What the Ledger Ethereum App…
DeFi lending protocol Term Labs misplaced roughly $8.5 million on Sunday after a governance exploit impacted its Term vaults, blockchain safety agency PeckShield reported. The attacker pulled 2,843 Ethereum (ETH) and 1.68 million USDC (USDC) out of the protocol. Term Labs confirmed the incident and stated a fuller account would comply with its investigation. How…
BounceBit will completely shut down its Layer 1 blockchain after an attacker moved 286.5 million BB out of 9 mainnet accounts. The mission will reissue the token as a BEP-20 asset on BNB Chain. The workforce mentioned the attacker compromised no personal keys, wallets, or {hardware} gadgets. The unauthorized transfers got here from a protocol-level…
Criminal adoption of synthetic intelligence (AI) has climbed 40% year-on-year in 2026, in line with blockchain intelligence agency TRM Labs. Scams drove most of that development. TRM’s new AI-in-Crime Adoption Index scores total adoption at 54 out of 100, up from about 28 in 2024. Scams are the one class rated Mature. AI Now Runs…
The Sandbox mentioned it has contained a vulnerability within the SAND cross-chain bridge on Base and BNB Smart Chain after an attacker minted unbacked tokens on each networks. The undertaking put the affect at below 0.01% of the overall SAND provide. It mentioned that tokens on Ethereum (ETH) and Polygon (POL) are unaffected and that…
Maya Protocol has undergone a halt after an attacker exploited 6 chained bugs to empty roughly $1.7 million from the decentralized liquidity protocol. The pseudonymous co-founder, Aaluxx, disclosed the losses. Native token CACAO collapsed by 88% as the attacker transformed the stolen provide into Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and different belongings throughout all Maya liquidity…
Harmony has begun a full community rollback that may erase billions of illegally minted ONE tokens from the chain’s historical past. The plan resets the blockchain to its state on August 11, hours earlier than an attacker cast a recent provide. Validators are already getting ready the restart. Why the Harmony Rollback Goes Back to…
Galaxy Research mentioned that Coldcard losses have exceeded $115 million, masking 1,778.58 Bitcoin (BTC) swept from 8,680 addresses since July 30, in line with Galaxy knowledge by August 13. One new chart from the agency ranks the ten largest sweep teams by transaction habits. However, a lot of the drained addresses nonetheless don’t have any…
A seed phrase could be changed. A password could be reset. A house handle can not. The SafePal information breach disclosed Sunday uncovered practically 40,000 of them. Three days earlier, Trezor leaked 13,689 extra. Together the 2 {hardware} pockets makers put 53,487 buyer information into the open. Neither firm misplaced a single coin. What the…
DeFiLlama’s workforce loaded a pockets with actual crypto, handed it to a counterfeit model of their very own app, and watched the cash vanish. Apple eliminated the rip-off itemizing days later. Months of trademark and impersonation complaints had achieved nothing. Only documented theft moved Apple’s reviewers, in accordance to a publish from DeFiLlama developer 0xngmi….