Security Incidents

According to SolanaFloor monitoring data reported by PANews on May 22, scammers are impersonating Jupiter and airdropping fake CJUP tokens to wallets, then directing users to phishing websites to steal

According to Bankr's X statement, the platform plans to restore all functionality by next week following additional security reviews and monitoring measures in collaboration with zeroShadow and other partners. In the near term, Bankr will gradually restore token issuance and read-only features,

Blockchain data firm Glassnode released a research report on May 22 confirming that in Bitcoin’s circulating supply there are 6.04 million publicly exposed public keys (over $469 billion in marketcap). In theory, if a sufficiently powerful quantum computer emerges, it could use the Shor algorithm to derive private keys from known public keys, putting the related holdings at risk of being stolen; the remaining 13.99 million BTC have not shown public key exposure. Two types of technical exposure:

According to on-chain analyst PeckShield, the VerusCoin cross-chain bridge attacker has returned 4,052.4 ETH (approximately $8.5 million) to the project team address, representing 75% of the stolen funds. The remaining 25% of stolen assets—1,350 ETH valued at $2.8 million—has been retained by the at

The wife of Sébastien Borget, co-founder and chief operating officer of The Sandbox, survived an attempted kidnapping at the couple's residence in Villenoy, Seine-et-Marne, France. According to reports from French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, masked suspects posing as delivery workers attempted

According to French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, the wife of Sébastien Borget, co-founder of The Sandbox, was targeted in a kidnapping attempt at their residence in Villenoy, Seine-et-Marne region. Masked suspects posing as delivery workers attempted to forcibly abduct her, but neighbors

Opening Terraform Labs administrator Todd Snyder has alleged in an amended complaint filed Monday that Jane Street traders used a private Telegram chat to obtain insider information from Terraform employees before dumping the firm's entire $192 million TerraUSD position hours before the

Terraform Labs administrator Todd Snyder alleged Monday in an amended complaint that Jane Street traders used a private Telegram chat to obtain insider information from Terraform employees before selling the firm's entire $192 million UST position hours before the stablecoin's May 2022

The FBI's NexFundAI operation has returned to focus after crypto commentators Evan Luthra and Carl Moon shared new attention-grabbing posts about how U.S. agents allegedly used a fake Ethereum token to

The wife of The Sandbox co-founder Sebastien Borget was targeted in a failed kidnapping attempt at the couple's home in Villenoy, France, according to French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche. Summary Borget's wife escaped injury after neighbors disrupted a reported kidnapping attempt at their V

According to The Block, the wife of Sebastien Borget, co-founder and chief operating officer of metaverse project The Sandbox, was targeted in an attempted kidnapping at her residence in Villenoy, France this week. Suspects posing as a delivery worker gained entry to the property before five

According to Chainalysis, a suspect in Italy allegedly used Bitcoin Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens to conceal $1.1 million in taxable gains on May 21, 2026. The suspect created BRC-20 tokens, sold them for profit, and then converted the earnings back into Bitcoin to hide the transaction trail.

According to ChainCatcher citing a Hong Kong Police statement, law enforcement from Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and five other jurisdictions arrested 3,018 people during a crackdown on cross-border fraud and money laundering between March 10 and May 7. The operation investigated

According to CertiK, the attacker behind the Transit Finance hack deposited 832.9 ETH (approximately $1.8 million) to Tornado.Cash today (May 21) from an Ethereum address starting with 0x9db8. The incident follows the cross-chain aggregation protocol's security breach on May 13, in which approximate

According to CoinGecko, MAPO, the native token of Map Protocol, plummeted 96% on Wednesday after an exploit of the Butter Network cross-chain bridge allowed an attacker to mint a quadrillion tokens. The token's value collapsed from around $0.003 to $0.0001 in hours. The attacker used a newly

A hacker attack hit the Haveno transaction protocol open-source upstream project of the Tor-based peer-to-peer multisig DEX RetoSwap on May 21. Haveno’s chief developer woodser reported it at the same time. RetoSwap blocked the attacker’s address and temporarily paused trading by setting the client’s minimum version. PeckShield monitoring confirmed losses of about 7,000 XMR. Attack technical mechanism: forging an ACK message to hijack the arbitrator address Haveno’s chief developer woodser has c

According to Foresight News, RetoSwap, a peer-to-peer multisig DEX on the Tor network, halted trading following a security breach in its upstream open-source project Haveno protocol. The team blocked the attacker's onion address and suspended trading via client version restrictions. RetoSwap's

On May 20, on-chain security firm Blockaid detected an attack on Butter Bridge V3.1, a cross-chain bridge component under MAP Protocol, on Ethereum and BSC. The attacker exploited a smart contract design flaw to induce the bridge contract to illegally mint roughly 10 trillion MAPO tokens directly to a newly created address, about 4.8 million times the 208 million MAPO in legitimate circulating supply. Attack Mechanism: Smart Contract Design Flaw in the Retry Message Verification Process Blockaid