BlockThreat - Week 14, 2021

Polkatrain | Uranium Finance | Fei | Silk Road | BitClout

Welcome to this week’s edition of Blockchain Threat Intelligence. BSC (Binance Smart Chain) had multiple DeFi applications hacked, a critical bug in Fei was responsibly disclosed, rumors of Paxful exployee PII getting leaked, and more in the never ending stream of blockchain security news.

News

• Ransomware tops U.S. cyber priorities, Homeland secretary says.

• Additional details revealed about Lazarus Group extortion tactics after the Bithumb compromise.

Media

• Silk Road (2021) is yet another crypto-thriller based on the true stories of the Dread Pirate Roberts and a corrupt DEA agent set out to hunt him down. I enjoyed film’s morally ambiguous stance on both DPR and DEA agent’s actions. Silk Road takes a few liberties with the plot line, but mostly sticks to the real world events including the infamous San Francisco library bust.

Hacks

• On April 4th, 2021 Polkatrain on BSC rebate mechanism was exploited which resulted in the loss of $3M (57K DOT).

• On April 7th, 2021 Uranium Finance on BSC logic …