Crypto Briefing

THORChain proposes recovery plan after May 15 exploit, no new RUNE minted

THORChain's ADR028 recovery plan covers $10.7M exploit losses through Protocol-Owned Liquidity without minting new RUNE ...
Crypto Briefing

Polymarket investigates private key compromise, no contract exploit found

Polymarket confirms a private key compromise drained over $520K from an internal wallet. Smart contracts and user funds ...
BeInCrypto

Polymarket Says No Contract Exploit After Compromised Private Key Drains $573K

ZachXBT reports Polymarket's UMA CTF Adapter has been exploited on Polygon, with over $520,000 reportedly drained so far.

New Windows 'MiniPlasma' zero-day exploit gives SYSTEM access, PoC released

A cybersecurity researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a Windows privilege escalation zero-day dubbed ...
Analytics Insight

MAPO Token Crashes After Butter Network Exploit Drains Liquidity

The MAPO token collapsed this week after attackers exploited a vulnerability linked to the Butter Network cross-chain bridge.

Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections

A zero-day exploit circulating online allows people with physical access to a Windows 11 system to bypass default BitLocker ...
TweakTown

Security researcher finds zero-day exploit that defeats Windows 11 BitLocker, calls it an insane 'backdoor' discovery

Users who rely solely on TPM-based BitLocker are most at risk, while those with a PIN or USB security key at boot are ...
AMBCrypto

Polymarket’s $700K exploit targets USDC, POL – Are user funds safe?

Here is how the exploit happened on the world’s largest prediction markets: We’re aware of the security reports linked to ...

Map Protocol token plummets 96% after a quadrillion token mint exploit

An attacker minted a quadrillion MAPO tokens via Map Protocol’s cross-chain bridge, crashing the token’s value 96% to $0.0001 ...
The Next Web

Google found the first AI-generated zero-day exploit. It stopped the attack before it started.

Google's GTIG identified the first zero-day exploit developed with AI and stopped a mass exploitation event. The report documents state actors using AI for vulnerability research and autonomous ...
CoinDesk

Echo Protocol suffers $76 million exploit in eBTC minting attack on Monad

The Bitcoin-focused DeFi protocol suffered an attack whereby about 1,000 unauthorized eBTC $77 million were minted on the ...
AMBCrypto

THORChain exploit raises fresh concerns over MPC wallet security

THORChain's latest exploit is drawing attention to possible weaknesses in MPC and threshold-signature wallet infrastructure.