Hacking

Crema Finance – a concentrated liquidity market maker protocol on Solana – has frozen operations following an $8.7 million exploit. The hacker has since transferred the funds to another platform, but he and his gains are still being tracked. Manipulating the Data Crema published a Twitter thread on Sunday explaining the technicals of the situation. Saturday’s hack was possible by creating a fake ‘tick’ account – an account that stores price tick data in Crema. Crema's design allows an owner…

A crypto exchange Crypto.com confirmed that hackers stole nearly $34 million during Monday's hack. In a Tuesday update, the exchange revealed that hackers stole 443.93 bitcoin ($18.7 million), 4835.25 ether ($15.2 million) and approximately $66,200 in USD. The company faced criticism over its communication after the incident. The company's CEO only confirmed the hack on Wednesday, three days after it took place. In total, the hack affected 483 users. However, Crypto.com said that they fully reimbursed all of them. The…

IOTA founder Sønstebø intends to refund victims of the major February 14 IOTA hack with his own tokens.  The exchange plans to re-enable its network in the coming days to revive IOTA prices. Time will tell whether the Foundation will be able to make strides towards improving the security of its network and wallets. Towards the end of last week, IOTA co-founder and board co-chairman David Sønstebø revealed on twitter that anybody who lost funds in the recent IOTA [wallet]…