The Echo Protocol hack revealed DeFi’s growing operational security crisis after attackers minted $76.7M fake eBTC using a stolen admin key.

THORChain paused trading after ZachXBT flagged a suspected $10 million exploit spanning Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain and Base. Decentralized liquidity protocol THORChain halted trading after ...

LayerZero, a cross-chain messaging protocol, has publicly apologized for its handling of communications following a major security incident involving Kelp DAO. In a detailed update released on its ...

An unpatched vulnerability can allow for privilege escalation across Windows systems through the abuse of the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) architecture in Microsoft's OS. Called PhantomRPC, the flaw ...

Chainalysis noted that on April 18, 2026, cybercriminals believed to be tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group executed one of the largest DeFi heists of the year, siphoning approximately $292 million ...

LayerZero has placed responsibility for the $290 million Kelp DAO exploit on Kelp's own security configuration, saying the liquid restaking protocol ran a single-verifier setup that LayerZero had ...

The contagion from the Kelp exploit could have been contained, but at the cost of capital efficiency, according to the founder of Curve Finance. The exploit of the Kelp liquid restaking protocol shows ...

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The software bug was capable of crashing an operating system used by firewalls, servers and network appliances. It went undetected for over 27 years. Last month, it was caught by Mythos, the latest AI ...

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iPhone users should be on alert: DarkSword spyware has been posted in the wild. Credit: Cheng Xin/Getty Images DarkSword, the web-based hacker tool that can be used to steal data from millions of ...