#Blockchain Vulnerabilities

Latest news on vulnerabilities found in blockchain protocols, decentralized applications, and cryptocurrency platforms.

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ForkLog 19 11.10.2022

Complex Bitcoin transaction caused a Lightning Network outage

Burak Kedjeli, founder of the Bitmatrix platform, created and executed a complex transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain that temporarily took down part of the Lightning Network (LN) micropayment network.

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ForkLog 21 26.09.2022

Hackers stole an additional $950,000 due to Profanity vulnerability

PeckShield analysts recorded a theft of around 732 ETH (about $950,000) from an Ethereum address generated with the Profanity vanity-address generator.

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ForkLog 34 20.09.2022

Experts tie Wintermute’s $160 million hack to vanity-address generator vulnerability

The thief who stole $160 million from market maker Wintermute exploited a vulnerability in the Profanity tool, according to Polygon's head of information security, Mudit Gupta.

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ForkLog 23 18.09.2022

Hackers stole about $3.3 million through vulnerability in Profanity Ethereum address generator

Hackers stole about $3.3 million in cryptocurrency from Ethereum users who generated addresses via the Profanity tool. Earlier, the 1inch Network team warned about the vulnerability.

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ForkLog 19 09.09.2022

Avalanche vulnerability could have caused a network-wide outage.

Ethereum developer Péter Szilágyi described the vulnerability that could allow an attacker to take down the Avalanche network.

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ForkLog 9 05.09.2022

Hackers exploited Rug Pull Finder’s vulnerability to mint 450 NFTs for free

Researchers from Rug Pull Finder (RPF) reported an exploit in its own smart contract that allowed two attackers to mint 450 project NFTs in their wallets for free, instead of one.

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ForkLog 22 31.08.2022

Compound temporarily freezes cETH operations due to protocol update error

The lending protocol {{AOPEN_1}}Compound{{ACLOSE_1}} halted lending and the withdrawal of collateral for cETH tokens after the discovery of an error in the activated Proposal 117. The proposal updated the price feeds for Compound v2.

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ForkLog 15 30.08.2022

DeFi project OptiFi loses $661,000 in botched update

The DeFi protocol OptiFi on Solana accidentally closed its mainnet, locking users’ USDC funds worth $661,000.

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ForkLog 19 30.08.2022

FBI Identifies Popular Attack Vectors Targeting the DeFi Sector

The FBI issued a warning about the most commonly exploited vulnerabilities used by cybercriminals to attack DeFi platforms.

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ForkLog 24 10.08.2022

Robinhood to pay $9.9 million to class of users over outages

Robinhood will pay $9.9 million to a proposed class of users who sued the online broker over repeated outages of its app. The plaintiffs estimate their damages at $20.4 million.

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ForkLog 25 21.06.2022

Global Cloudflare outage hits Bitcoin exchanges

On June 21, Cloudflare warned of a global outage affecting its services. Crypto exchanges faced technical problems.

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ForkLog 21 16.06.2022

Hacker stole about $1.2 million in an attack on Inverse Finance’s lending protocol

Inverse Finance's lending protocol was hacked, with the attacker withdrawing digital assets worth about $1.2 million. The project's losses could exceed this amount, PeckShield said.

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