cybersecurity

Curve Finance, a decentralized exchange, is still deeply investigating an apparent DNS exploit. Though a temporary glitch, this exploit would have forced users to an attack site. The breach, found Monday afternoon, necessarily led to urgent action from the site. Just as Curve Finance experienced a DNS hijack last year...

$2.15 million. Vanished. Gone. Poof. That’s the total Mobius Token ($MBU) investors found themselves missing out on on the morning of May 11th. Another day, another DeFi disaster, right? Wrong. This isn’t simply the cost of a poorly coded smart contract or a mastermind hacker. This system is already stacked...

The cryptocurrency space, which has opened up possibilities for financial innovation that we’ve never seen before, is home to some of the worst #badactors out there. As we’ve written, laundering stolen funds through crypto is increasing. Thanks to the hard work and dogged persistence of on-chain analysts such as ZachXBT,...

The crypto community as a whole is understandably on edge once more! The exploiter of Voltage Finance also moved $182,000 worth of Ether (ETH) through Tornado Cash, a popular crypto mixer infamously known for laundering stolen funds. This advancement poses troubling questions about the adequacy of our existing security protocols....

In the rapidly changing world of crypto, knowledge is your best protection. Recent reports find that crypto-related crimes led to an astonishing loss of $357 million just in the month of April. This frightening statistic is a reminder of the need for strong security protections. At MetaBlock X, we’re equipping...

A $330 million cryptocurrency hack, the largest ever at the time, has shaken the crypto world. An advanced social engineering scam caused a U.S. senior citizen to lose their life savings on May 4, 2025. In time, investigators tracked the incident down to this nefarious plot. These fine amounts were...

A jaw dropping $330 million Bitcoin theft has sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency community. This breach marks the fifth-largest crypto hack in history. It’s indicative of how public and private criminals are using ever more sophisticated social engineering to prey on vulnerable individuals – in particular older Americans. MetaBlock X...

Alexander Gurevich. Or should we call him Alexander Block? The name change, the unexpected ticket to Russia, the airport arrest – it all adds up to an intimidating picture, right? A portrait of madness, a portrait of zealotry, a portrait of desperation, of a man cornered. What compelled him to...

On May 1, Israel’s immigration authorities arrested Gurevich at Ben-Gurion Airport. He’s a dual Russian and Israeli citizen reportedly connected to the $190 million Nomad bridge hack. Gurevich (who had recently adopted the name Alexander Block just a few days prior) was attempting to catch a flight to Russia when...

We know the fraud landscape is constantly evolving. High-risk merchants need to be proactive about new threats to protect their revenue and keep their customers’ trust. A recent Finextra blog post outlines the five fraud trends that will be most felt by high-risk merchants in 2025. This smart piece was...