$625m Stolen From Ronin Network – The Blockchain Behind Axie Infinity Game

By Waqas The company is collaborating with the law enforcement agency to recover 173,600 ETH and 25.5 million USDC USD… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: $625m Stolen From Ronin Network - The Blockchain Behind Axie Infinity Game...

HubSpot Data Breach Ripples Through Crytocurrency Industry

A rogue employee working at HubSpot – used by more than 135,000 and growing customers to manage marketing campaigns and on-board new users – has been fired over a breach that zeroed in on the company’s cryptocurrency customers, the company confirmed on Friday. The breach has rippled through the...

CVE-2022-26534

FISCO-BCOS release-3.0.0-rc2 was discovered to contain an issue where a malicious node, via a malicious viewchange packet, will cause normal nodes to change view excessively and stop generating blocks...

Foundation Treasury initialize() function can be called by an attacker first

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact In FoundationTreasury.sol the initialize function can only be called once setting the admin and operator roles which are used in other contracts. The problem is that this initialize function is not called in any deployment script which means an attacker...

QA Report

LOW : 1. Title : permitAndMulticall can be frontrun, that will lead to the user must reasign the TX Impact : In the permitAndMulticall it takes from as a user input, since all tx in the blockchain is public, a malicious user might frontrun the permitAndMulticall and providing 0 data, which will...

Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Blockchain bridge dependencies are vulnerable to an issue in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228)

Summary A Remote Code Execution issue was identified within the Log4j library that is used by Fabric Gateway to provide logging functionality. Fabric Gateway is used by the IBM MQ blockchain bridge component of IBM MQ 9.1.4 and later to provide connection capability between IBM MQ queue managers...

Hackers Stole $1.7 Million Worth of NFTs from Users of OpenSea Marketplace

Malicious actors took advantage of a smart contract upgrade process in the OpenSea NFT marketplace to carry out a phishing attack against 17 of its users that resulted in the theft of virtual assets worth about $1.7 million. NFTs, short for non-fungible tokens, are digital tokens that act like...

The initialize() function can be called first by an attacker

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact In Delegation.sol the initialize function sets the owner of the contract and can only be called once. The problem is that an attacker can monitor the blockchain byte code and call the initialize function first automatically before the protocol has a chan...

Microsoft Warns of 'Ice Phishing' Threat on Web3 and Decentralized Networks

Microsoft has warned of emerging threats in the Web3 landscape, including "ice phishing" campaigns, as a surge in adoption of blockchain and DeFi technologies emphasizes the need to build security into the decentralized web while it's still in its early stages. The company's Microsoft 365 Defende...

‘Ice phishing’ on the blockchain

The technologies that connect us are continually advancing, and while this brings tremendous new capabilities to users, it also opens new attack surfaces for adversaries and abusers. Social engineering represents a class of threats that has extended to virtually every technology that enables huma...

‘Ice phishing’ on the blockchain

The technologies that connect us are continually advancing, and while this brings tremendous new capabilities to users, it also opens new attack surfaces for adversaries and abusers. Social engineering represents a class of threats that has extended to virtually every technology that enables huma...

Reentrancy allows commenter to overwrite own comments

Lines of code Vulnerability details Since the Lens platform is a blockchain-based social media platform, it's important that information relevant to users be emitted so that light clients need not continually refer to the blockchain, which can be expensive. From the docs: Events are emitted at...

Wormhole Crypto Platform: ‘Funds Are Safe’ After $314M Heist

Wormhole – a web-based blockchain “bridge” that enables users to convert cryptocurrencies – said on Thursday that “all funds are safe” after attackers abused a vulnerability to shake it down for 120,000 Ethereum approximately $314 million. In a postmortem shared with Threatpost on Thursday,...

$320 milllion stolen from Wormhole crypto-trading platform

By using an exploit in the software of crypto-trading platform Wormhole, threat actors have stolen an estimated $322 million in cryptocurrencies. The platform is offering a $10 million award for the stolen money and details about the attack. How they pulled it off Wormhole Portal is a web-based...

What is Cryptojacking Attack ❓ Definition and Prevention

Introduction A conceivable threat to cryptocurrency owners, cryptojacking is an attack using which threat attackers can mine cryptocurrency at the expenditure of the target’s resources and network health. If not managed properly at the premature stage, the consequences of this vulnerability can b...

SnatchCrypto attack hits DeFi and Blockchain Platforms with backdoor

By Waqas Kaspersky researchers believe that North Korean government-backed hackers from the Lazarus Group are behind the SnatchCrypto attack. The… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SnatchCrypto attack hits DeFi and Blockchain Platforms with backdoor...

PoolTemplate.sol initialize() can be called by attacker during deployment

Handle jayjonah8 Vulnerability details Impact In PoolTemplate.sol the initialize function sets important storage variables like conditions and references and this function can only be called once. During deployment an attacker can monitor the blockchain byte code and call the initialize function...

Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Blockchain bridge dependencies are vulnerable to issues in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-45105 & CVE-2021-44832)

Summary A Denial of Service issue was identified within the Log4j fix for CVE-2021-45046 that is used by Fabric Gateway to provide logging functionality. Fabric Gateway is used by the IBM MQ blockchain bridge component of IBM MQ to provide connection capability between IBM MQ queue managers and...

GHSA-8GJM-H3XJ-MP6W RPC call failure in ckb

An issue was discovered in the ckb crate before 0.40.0 for Rust. A getblocktemplate RPC call may fail in situations where it is supposed to select a Nervos CKB blockchain transaction with a higher fee rate than another transaction...

RPC call failure in ckb

An issue was discovered in the ckb crate before 0.40.0 for Rust. A getblocktemplate RPC call may fail in situations where it is supposed to select a Nervos CKB blockchain transaction with a higher fee rate than another transaction...