security

The environment of blockchain technology is quickly evolving. Yet new security vulnerabilities can emerge at a moment’s notice, posing significant threats to projects and their end users. Just last month, ZKSync, one of the leading Layer-2 scaling solutions for Ethereum, suffered a hack that revealed fundamental flaws in its protocol....

The headlines shouted “Funds Recovered!” and “Hacker Returns Stolen Crypto!”. ZKSync supporters breathed a sigh of relief. Beneath the surface of this seemingly happy ending lies a chilling truth: the very mechanism that allowed for the swift recovery exposes a critical flaw in the system's design. A $5 million hack,...

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Crosschain bridges have turned into crucial infrastructure in the web3 ecosystem. They enable users to easily transfer assets and information across disparate blockchains, unlocking the true power of the decentralized universe. As the DeFi landscape continues to change rapidly, it’s important for anyone participating in the crypto space to know...

The recent XRPL hack, discovered by Aikido, wasn't just another bug fix. It was a flashing red light illuminating a critical weakness in the very foundation of blockchain development: our reliance on the supply chain. Too many see blockchain as an impenetrable fortress. Yet as this incident illustrates, even the...

A security breach was recently discovered in the open-source JavaScript library of XRP Ledger, one of the oldest blockchain networks, launched in 2012. Security firm Aikido, a blockchain security specialist, found some suspicious code in XRP’s JavaScript package that led to the discovery of a crypto-stealing backdoor. The XRP Ledger...

Consider the story of Sarah, a single mother who invested most of her life savings into ROAR, seduced by the siren song of financial independence. She pictured a better life for her children, a college education, a nest egg for retirement. Then, poof, $800,000 disappeared, and along with it, vanished...

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The global landscape of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) offers a trustless utopia. Yet inarguably, human fallibility remains an Achilles’ heel as a vulnerability. Our most recent ROAR hack yielded significant losses of $785,000. This incident should serve as a reminder of the insider threat that even the most innovative blockchain projects...

Aikido, a software security company that focuses on developer oriented security tools, identified a breach in the XRP Ledger’s JavaScript library (xrpl.js). Without compromising user safety, they succeeded in neutralizing the threat. On April 21, we learned of a breach that affected xrpl.js versions 4.2.1 through 4.2.4. This component is...