News with the tag "White hat hacker"

A pseudonymous security researcher identified a critical vulnerability in Virtuals Protocol’s audited contract, prompting an urgent fix.

White hat organization Security Alliance (SEAL) urged users to transfer crypto funds from LastPass if their private keys had been stored there since December 2022 or earlier.

The crypto security team is preparing to launch a battleground for hackers and crypto protocols at the DeFi Security Summit at Devcon in November.

Ronin Network stated that digital assets worth $12 million, siphoned by so-called white hat hackers on August 6, were returned in full the same day. The Ronin team mentioned that they paused the bridge approximately 40 minutes after the first on-chain action was detected. The team also assured users...

Kraken has accused an unnamed security research firm of stealing $3 million from its treasury and attempting to extort more money. Nick Percoco said so-called white hat hackers failed to fully disclose the bug transaction details and have not made arrangements to return the stolen funds. White Hat H...

A Kraken executive says that a black hat entity stole $3 million from the firm after finding a bug in the exchange’s systems. In a lengthy thread on the social media platform X, Nick Percoco, Kraken’s chief security officer, says that earlier this month, Kraken received an update from their Bug Boun...

Certain on-chain signs point to a potential white hat, or ethical hacker, looking for blockchain vulnerabilities.

XLink faced a security breach involving almost $10 million, with $4.3 million recovered thanks to a friendly neighborhood whitehat hacker.

Stablecoin protocol Prisma Finance was breached earlier this week, causing the platform to lose almost $11.6 million.

A popular cybersecurity expert known by the pseudonym Samczsun has created a new alliance of white-hat hackers to protect crypto projects from the growing risks of cyber attacks.