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Rapper 50 Cent's Twitter account was hacked on Friday. Hackers used his account for a pump-and-dump scheme for a new Solana token. The hacker posted a flurry of tweets promoting "GUNIT" coin. They referenced 50 Cent's cognac brand and other celebrity crypto projects. It looked legit at first glance,

Rho Markets, a liquidity layer and lending protocol on Scroll, has been hit by an exploit. The damage? A cool $7.6 million in USD Coin. Ouch. The hack happened on July 19. A bad actor got their hands on the protocol's blockchain oracle. Cyvers, a blockchain security firm, spilled the beans on X. "Rh

The crypto world's got a fresh headache. LiFi protocol, a nifty tool for swapping and bridging cryptocurrencies, just got walloped. Hackers made off with over $10 million in digital assets. Ouch. Here's the deal. The bad guys found a loophole in LiFi's contract approvals. They used it to drain both

Several decentralized finance (DeFi) apps have fallen victim to a domain registry attack. Blockchain security platform Blockaid raised the alarm on July 11. The attacker seized control of Compound Finance's DNS registry. They also tried and failed to hijack Celer Network's registry. Blockaid's initi

Cryptocurrency hacks and fraud escalated in the second quarter of 2024. Losses nearly doubled compared to the same period last year. Immunefi, a crypto bug bounty platform, reported $509 million in losses. This marks a 91% increase from Q2 2023. May 2024 saw record-breaking losses of $107 million. J