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,…
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$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:…
Figure Technology Data Breach: Hackers Dump 2.5GB Stolen Records
⚡ Key Highlights Figure Technology confirmed a data breach on February 13, 2026, caused by a social engineering attack targeting a single employee Hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility and published ~2.5GB of stolen data after Figure refused to pay a…
How did the USDT laundering case move over $1 billion?
The unsealing of a criminal case in the Eastern District of Virginia has drawn attention to a major usdt laundering case involving Miami-based Jorge Figueira, a national of Venezuela and Spain. Court filings allege he ran a money laundering conspiracy…
How did the Matcha Meta Hack lead to $17 million in losses?
A security incident tied to the matcha meta hack has resulted in almost $17 million worth of cryptocurrency being taken from users of Matcha Meta, a DeFi exchange meta aggregator created by 0x. The attack started at around 5:10pm London…