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Loopscale, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, is here to change that. The white hat hacker behind the recent exploit has already reached an agreement to return the stolen funds. The settlement follows Loopscale posting a whitehat bounty for the return of 90% of the stolen assets. The total value of...

Now imagine doing that watching your life savings disappear within minutes. Well, that’s precisely what happened to Jake Gallen, CEO of Emblem Vault. His campaign “Elusive Comet” cost him more than $100,000 in digital assets due to the nature of the hack. This sophisticated attack normalized the exploitation of something...

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...

Cryptocurrency—while empowering new opportunities, innovation, and investment—has created an environment ripe for cybercrime and the monetization of crime. Law enforcement agencies are constantly playing catch-up, developing and refining methods to track and recover stolen cryptocurrency. MetaBlock X is exploring the efficacy of these approaches. It will address the issues users...

Today, federal law enforcement announced that they have clamped down on a series of digital currency operations tied to the February 2025 Bybit hack. This episode is already considered one of the biggest crypto hacks in history. The investigators have been able to follow the money and successfully recovered more...

The rapidly evolving landscape of decentralized finance (DeFi) is full of innovation and promise, yet it continues to pose serious security threats. A couple of weeks ago, ZKsync—one of the most popular Layer-2 scaling solutions on Ethereum—suffered a security exploit. The ramifications of this incident resulted in the loss of...