#DeFi
All CosmicBytez Labs articles tagged #DeFi, across news, security advisories, how-to guides, and projects.
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Uranium Crypto Exchange Hacker Convicted for Stealing $53 Million
A Manhattan jury convicted Jonathan Spalletta on all counts for hacking Uranium Finance twice in 2021 and laundering $53.3M in crypto.
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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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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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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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ThreatsDay Bulletin: $290M DeFi Hack, macOS LotL Abuse
This week's ThreatsDay Bulletin covers the $290M KelpDAO DeFi hack tied to Lazarus Group, new macOS living-off-the-land attack techniques, ProxySmart SIM...
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Crypto Infrastructure Company Blames $290 Million Theft on North Korean Hackers
A major cryptocurrency infrastructure company has attributed a $290 million theft to North Korean state-sponsored hackers, as the industry continues to...
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KelpDAO Suffers $290 Million Heist Tied to Lazarus Hackers
North Korean state-sponsored hackers from the Lazarus Group are behind a $290 million cryptocurrency theft from DeFi platform KelpDAO, marking one of the...
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'It Reads Like a Spy Novel': $280M Drift Theft Linked to North Korean Fake Companies
A post-mortem of the $280 million Drift Protocol crypto theft reveals a sophisticated six-month North Korean social engineering operation involving fake...
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Drift $280M Crypto Theft Linked to 6-Month In-Person DPRK
Drift Protocol has revealed that the $280 million hack it suffered was the culmination of a six-month long operation in which North Korean-linked threat...
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Apr 7 Digest: Medusa Ransomware Surge, FBI $21B Record
Storm-1175 runs sub-24-hour Medusa ransomware campaigns using zero-days; the FBI IC3 reports a record $21 billion in US cybercrime losses for 2025; North...
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$285 Million Drift Hack Traced to Six-Month DPRK Social
Drift has confirmed the April 1, 2026, theft of $285 million resulted from a meticulously planned six-month North Korean social engineering operation that...
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Drift Crypto Platform Confirms $280 Million Stolen as
Drift Protocol has confirmed that $280 million was stolen in a sophisticated hack after malicious actors executed a novel attack that achieved the rapid...
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Drift Loses $280 Million as Hackers Seize Security Council
The Drift Protocol DeFi platform lost at least $280 million after a sophisticated threat actor executed a planned governance attack, seizing control of...
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Crypto Platform Drift Suspends Services After Hundreds of Millions Stolen
Decentralized finance platform Drift has suspended operations after a cyberattack resulted in the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars in...
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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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Mar 26 Digest: LeakBase Admin Arrested, WebRTC Skimmer
This week: Russian authorities detain the alleged LeakBase admin weeks after the FBI-led global crackdown on the 147,000-subscriber stolen-data...
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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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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...