Institutions exploring DeFi are growing wary of bridge exploits, opaque risk exposure and yields that no longer justify the ...

DeFi exploits keep piling up in 2026. Here’s what experts say is behind crypto’s security crisis—and how it can be fixed.

An attacker leveraged a vulnerability in the Butter Network bridge to create 1 quadrillion MAPO tokens out of thin air The token’s value plummeted 96%, collapsing from $0.003 to $0.0001 in mere hours ...

MAP Protocol paused its bridge between MAPO ERC-20 and mainnet MAPO after a reported exploit on Butter Bridge V3.1. Here's ...

MAP Protocol’s Butter Bridge was exploited, with attackers minting 1 quadrillion MAPO tokens, 4.8 million times the real ...

Echo Protocol said that a compromised admin key had enabled unauthorized eBTC minting on its Monad deployment.

An attacker has minted 1,000 eBTC on Echo Protocol's Monad bridge, then routed over $800,000 in stolen ETH through Tornado ...

On May 18, an attacker drained approximately $11.5 million from the Verus-Ethereum bridge using a forged Merkle proof. This ...

Spoiler alert: This story contains details from Episode 7 of Season 5 of “Hacks” (now streaming) on HBO Max. Those who have shipped Deborah and Ava, your time has come. The episode “was so much fun,” ...

Regular internet users and corporations are not the only victims of malicious hackers. Sometimes, the hackers themselves get hacked. That is what happened in an unusual hacking campaign, where an ...

Shinyhunters hacker group has compromised Canvas, the learning management system used by over 8,000 schools and universities. The hackers are demanding ransom by May 12, or data will be released. A ...

Kelp DAO claims that LayerZero personnel approved the 1-of-1 verifier setup, a decision LayerZero has since cited as the reason a North Korea-linked attacker drained roughly $292 million from Kelp's ...