Over the past nine years, from 2011 to 2020, cryptocurrency users have lost $7.6 billion in assets as a result of 113 attacks and 23 fraudulent schemes. This is comparable to Monaco’s GDP, according to a report by the analytical service Crystal Blockchain. In the report, Crystal specialists studied all the hacks, vulnerabilities and fraudulent […]
Hacker withdrew $2 million from the Akropolis DeFi protocol
An unknown attacker emptied the YCURVE and sUSD liquidity pools of the Akropolis project in DAI stablecoins for $2 million. He hacked smart contracts that have been audited twice. According to the observations of analyst Steven Zheng, the hacker withdrew assets in tranches of 50,000 DAI for seven hours until the liquidity in the pools […]