Welcome back to the Blockchain Threat Intelligence newsletter! After a brief break and a happy wedding (part of it on-chain), I’m excited to dive back into the fun world of BlockSec. This week we will discuss the EIP1559 drama happening on the Ethereum blockchain, 0day markets and NFTs, and several DeFi hacks. Be sure to read the DODO post-mortem for mad a ride through the Dark Forest.
News
A small group of miners proposed to fork the Ethereum network as a protest to reduced miner rewards in the EIP 1559 proposal. In response, a contingency plan was established to quickly move from PoW to ETH2.0 PoS in case of a 51% attack.
NFT with a 0day exploit for Quake3 was (briefly) listed on a popular marketplace OpenSea.
Romanian law enforcement arrested a hacker responsible for the theft of 620K euros from an unidentified exchange.
Turkish police arrested a Chinese gang which kidnapped workers and forced them to operate a cryptocurrency scam.
Hacks
On March 14th, 2021 Roll platform’s hot wallet keys…
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