Humanity Protocol, the palm-scan biometric identity project positioned as a rival to Sam Altman’s Worldcoin, lost more than $32 million on June 9, 2026, after attackers drained 17 foundation wallets, swapped the stolen H tokens for ETH, and then minted…
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The Zcash Bug That Could Have Printed Infinite Coins, Saved by AI
On May 29, 2026, a security researcher named Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash’s Orchard shielded pool. The bug had been sitting undiscovered since Orchard launched in May 2022, four years of cryptographers reviewing the same circuit without…
North Korea Killed Radiant Capital: How the Lazarus Group Turned a $386M DeFi Protocol Into a $2M Husk
Radiant Capital is shutting down. On June 1, 2026, the protocol’s DAO announced an orderly wind-down of operations after 18 months of failed recovery efforts following its devastating October 2024 exploit. The reason is simple and brutal: no funds were…
DeFi’s $292M KelpDAO Stress Test: Standard Chartered Says ‘Bent Not Broken,’ JPMorgan Disagrees
At 17:35 UTC on April 18, 2026, an attacker tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group sent a single forged cross-chain message through KelpDAO’s LayerZero bridge. The bridge accepted it, releasing 116,500 rsETH tokens, roughly 18% of the entire restaked-Ethereum supply,…
$285 Million Gone in 12 Minutes: How the Solana DeFi Hack on Drift Protocol Actually Happened
On April 1, 2026, Solana’s largest DeFi perpetuals exchange, Drift Protocol, lost $285 million in 12 minutes. The team posted on X to confirm it was real, not an April Fool’s joke. By the time most users saw the warning,…
North Korea Stole $1.5 Billion From Bybit. One Year Later, Only 3% Is Recovered. Here Is Where the Money Went.
On February 21, 2025, 401,347 Ethereum tokens worth approximately $1.5 billion disappeared from Bybit in under two minutes. It remains the largest theft in the history of cryptocurrency, surpassing every bank heist ever recorded including the $1 billion Saddam Hussein…
DAO Governance Attack 2026: How Flash Loans Turn Your Vote Into a Weapon (and What Stops Them)
3 Key Facts $22.5 billion sits in DAO treasuries governed by token-based voting systems, per 2025 data. Voter turnout across major DAOs averages below 10%. The Compound GoldenBoyz governance capture attempt in 2024 demonstrated that attackers needed only slightly more…
Ethereum Smart Contract Randomness Bug: How Ethereum’s First Lottery in 2015 Had No Winners
3 Key Facts On August 9, 2015, Day 3 of Ethereum mainnet, someone deployed what appears to be the first lottery smart contract in blockchain history. Contract address: 0x7af6af3d4491a161670837d0737bada43ffbb992. The developer’s first attempt self-destructed 42 minutes before this one was…
Step Finance Hack: $40M Stolen, Platform Shuts Down Permanently
Step Finance Hack: $40M Stolen, Platform Shuts Down Permanently ⚡ Key Highlights Step Finance confirmed a $40 million security breach on January 31, 2026, when attackers compromised executive-level devices and drained treasury and fee wallets The Step Finance hack targeted…
Top 10 Cybersecurity Trends in Crypto & Blockchain (2025): The $1.46B Hack That Changed Everything
Top 10 Crypto Cybersecurity Trends 2025: Bybit Hack, Lazarus Group & Biggest Attacks | CryptoNewsBytes Home › Cryptocurrency › Top 10 Crypto Cybersecurity Trends 2025 Security Top 10 Crypto Cybersecurity Trends 2025: The $1.46B Bybit Hack That Changed Everything Author:…