#Blockchain
All CosmicBytez Labs articles tagged #Blockchain, across news, security advisories, how-to guides, and projects.
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ClickFix Lures Deploy ChainScript RAT Using Polygon to Rotate C2 Infrastructure
A new Node.js RAT called ChainScript spreads via ClickFix lures impersonating Spotify, Zoom, and Teams, resolving C2 through a Polygon smart contract.
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5,400+ Hacked Sites Serve ClickFix Payloads Stored on the Blockchain
Attackers stash ClickFix malware stagers in BNB Smart Chain smart contracts, giving compromised WordPress and PrestaShop sites takedown-resistant C2.
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Cronos Blockchain Restarts After $74 Million Tectonic Exploit
A price-manipulation attack on Tectonic let an attacker borrow $74M on Cronos; validators halted the chain and rolled back state to contain it.
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DeadLock Ransomware Uses Blockchain to Resist Infrastructure Takedown
DeadLock ransomware stores its C2 configuration in Polygon smart contracts, making law enforcement takedowns ineffective against its 80+ victim operation.
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DeadLock Ransomware Uses Polygon Smart Contracts to Harden Extortion Infrastructure
The DeadLock ransomware group is leveraging Polygon blockchain smart contracts and the Session messaging network to build decentralized extortion...
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Attackers Vote Themselves $20 Million in BONK Cryptocurrency via Governance Attack
An attacker spent $4 million to buy enough BONK tokens to control BonkDAO's governance system, then voted through a malicious treasury transfer proposal...
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JaredFromSubway MEV Bot Hacked in $15 Million Crypto Theft
The JaredFromSubway Ethereum MEV bot lost $15 million after an attacker exploited its opportunity-detection logic by creating fake trading setups,...
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More Than $10 Million Stolen from Crypto Platform THORChain
THORChain officials confirmed that one of their six vaults was compromised in a security incident, leading to a loss of approximately $10.7 million. The...
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CVE-2026-41583: ZEBRA Zcash Node Consensus Rule Bypass
A missing sighash validation in ZEBRA, the Rust-based Zcash node, allowed invalid V5 transactions to pass consensus checks — patched in zebrad 4.3.1 and...
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$13.74M Hack Shuts Down Sanctioned Grinex Exchange After
Grinex, a Kyrgyzstan-based cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.S., U.K., and EU for facilitating sanctions evasion, has suspended all operations...
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Google Slashes Quantum Resource Requirements for Breaking
Google researchers have demonstrated that breaking the elliptic curve cryptography underpinning Bitcoin and Ethereum requires 20x fewer qubits than...
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Hacker Charged with Stealing $53 Million from Uranium
U.S. prosecutors have charged a Maryland man with hacking DeFi protocol Uranium Finance twice and laundering over $53 million through cryptocurrency mixers.
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Hacker Walks Away with $24.5 Million After Breaching Resolv
A compromised private key allowed an attacker to mint $80 million in unbacked USR stablecoins on the Resolv DeFi protocol, extract $24.5 million in ETH,...
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CanisterWorm: First Blockchain-Powered Self-Spreading Worm
A novel self-propagating malware dubbed CanisterWorm uses Internet Computer Protocol smart contracts as an untakedownable C2 channel, spreading...
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Truebit Protocol Hit by $26.5 Million DeFi Hack via Smart
Attackers exploited a smart contract integer overflow vulnerability in Truebit Protocol, minting massive amounts of TRU tokens at zero cost and draining...