532 posts tagged with "Security"
Cybersecurity, smart contract audits, and best practices
Hacken Q1 2026: $482M Stolen and the Quarter That Broke Crypto's Audit-First Religion
Hacken's Q1 2026 report puts Web3 losses at $482M across 44 incidents, with phishing and key compromises accounting for $378M — the quarter that permanently moved crypto's main attack surface off-chain.
Project Eleven's $20M Bet: Inside the Race to Quantum-Proof Bitcoin Before Q-Day
Project Eleven's $20 million Series A signals the first serious capital cycle into quantum-safe crypto as Google's tighter resource estimates put roughly $440 billion of vulnerable Bitcoin UTXOs on a shorter migration clock.
$606M in 18 Days: Why Upgrade-Introduced Bugs Are DeFi's New Top Attack Vector
April 2026's $606M in DeFi losses were not caused by classic smart-contract bugs. They came from routine protocol upgrades that silently broke prior audit assumptions — a new attack class the industry is unprepared for.
ERC-8220 and the Immutable Seal: Ethereum's Missing Layer for On-Chain AI Governance
ERC-8220 proposes an immutable seal binding AI agents to their model weights, training data, and inference policy — the missing governance layer of the agentic Ethereum stack.
KelpDAO's $292M Bridge Exploit: How One 1-of-1 Verifier Erased $14B of DeFi TVL in 48 Hours
A forged LayerZero message drained 116,500 rsETH from KelpDAO on April 18, 2026 — triggering a $14B DeFi TVL exodus, up to $230M in Aave bad debt, and a bitter fight over 1-of-1 verifier defaults.
45 Seconds to Drain Your Wallet: Inside Ledger's MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Exploit
Ledger's Donjon team extracted seed phrases from Android hot wallets in 45 seconds by exploiting an unpatchable boot ROM flaw in MediaTek's Dimensity 7300 — the same chip powering the Solana Seeker.
Resolv Hack: How One AWS Key Minted $25M and Broke DeFi Again
A $100K deposit minted $25M in unbacked USR tokens after an attacker compromised a single AWS KMS key. The Resolv hack exposes how cloud infrastructure has become DeFi's weakest link.
Scroll's Research Moat: Why the zkEVM Built With Ethereum Foundation Cryptographers Still Matters in 2026
Scroll's zkEVM was co-developed with Ethereum Foundation researchers and audited by four independent circuit security teams. In a commoditizing zkEVM market, that research heritage is quietly becoming the industry's flight-to-quality.
Ketman Project: How 100 North Korean Operatives Slipped Inside Web3
An Ethereum Foundation-backed investigation identified 100 North Korean operatives embedded across 53 crypto projects — turning Web3's hiring funnel into its most exposed attack surface.