UwU Lend Announces $5m Bounty as Hacker Launders Stolen Funds
A $5 million reward has been announced by the decentralized lending network UwU Lend to “identify and locate” the exploiter. The creators of UwU Lend are offering up to $5 million “to the first person to identify and locate” a hacker who took advantage of the protocol to obtain cryptocurrency valued at over $23 million. […]
Ethereum Re-staking Exploit Victim Gets Funds Back
On May 26, an unlucky victim lost 1,807 liquid staked Ethers valued at $6.91 million. The hacker has returned a substantial portion of the stolen funds. Yu Xian, co-founder of blockchain analytics firm SlowMist, wrote, “Yesterday, the old phishing group Inferno Drainer used the permit offline authorization signature to phish away nearly US$7 million in […]
Gala Games Hacker Returns $22M in Ether from Attack
Gala Games has been reimbursed approximately $22 million in Ether by the hacker accountable for minting $200 million worth of GALA tokens on May 20. The incident involved issuing and selling a fraction of the $200 million worth of Gala GALA tokens before the wallet was blocked. Nearly the market value of the 600 million […]
Pump Fun Implodes – Ex-Employee Hacker Exposes Misconduct
Jarett Dunn, aka StaccOverflow, secures bail after being arrested for allegedly hacking Pump Fun and draining $2 million from a Solana-based memecoin marketplace. After his detention in London, Jarett Dunn, the alleged hacker responsible for the Pump Fun exploit, was granted bail. On May 16th, StaccOverflow, an online alias for Dunn, is accused of stealing […]
Kronos Research Hacker Moves Exploit to Tornado Cash
Six months after the $25 million hack on quantitative trading firm Kronos Research, one of the six wallets linked to the hacker has moved funds to Tornado Cash. The compromised wallet initially transmitted 1,314 Ether, valued at $4 million, to an address beginning with 0x8F5e4 and then transferred the entire amount to an address beginning […]