An anonymous user took advantage of a vulnerability in the ApeCoin (CRYPTO: APE) airdrop process to exploit more than $800,000 worth of APE tokens. The attacker then used the borrowed BAYC tokens to ...

The hacker used a flash loan to inflate prices on Makina’s USD-USDC liquidity pool, and then traded to make over $4 million.

The scammer deployed a custom smart contract, leveraging a $51 million flash loan to manipulate the AVAX/USDC Trader Joe LP pool price for a single block. Avalanche-based lending protocol Nereus ...

The attack marks the third time Platypus has been exploited in 2023, with one incident taking $8.5 million in February and another taking $157,000 in July. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol ...

Blockchain security firm CertiK flagged a suspected exploit at decentralized finance protocol Makina Finance after roughly $5 ...

Flash loan security is one of the most discussed concerns in DeFi. Flash loans provide traders and developers with huge amounts of instant capital with no collateral, given that repayments occur in ...

Quantstamp, a provider of blockchain security solutions, this week unveiled Economic Exploit Analysis. Economic Exploit Analysis identifies flash loan attack vectors in smart contracts through ...

QuickSwap, a decentralized-finance (DeFi) platform that's based on the Polygon blockchain, closed its lending services for users following a flash-loan exploit for over $220,000 worth of tokens on ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantstamp, a global leader in blockchain security, is pleased to announce the launch of its novel service called Economic Exploit Analysis. This exclusive ...

Decentralized-finance protocol 0VIX has lost roughly $2 million in a flash-loan exploit, according to on-chain data on Polygon's block explorer. A total of 1.45 million USDC, along with other tokens, ...