BlockThreat - Week 21, 2021
Belt Finance | BurgerSwap | Wild Credit | JulSwap | Merlin | AutoShark | Geth
Almost $17M were stolen this week across various DeFi projects with losses primarily generated by various Pancake Bunny clones on the Binance Smart Chain. Things got so bad that Binance issued a call for action to get developers to adopt secure engineering practices. Crypto Core APT was linked with the Lazarus group further solidifying North Korea’s place as the primary threat to cryptocurrency exchanges around the world. This edition also features lot’s of excellent research papers, podcasts, and talks, but be sure to check out samczsun’s excellent write up on the critical Geth bug. With that grab some coffee, this is going to be one of the larger editions!
Events
Proactive defense for DeFi protocols: Security as a never-ending process workshop on June 4th 12:30pm UTC+0 by Immunefi
News
ClearSky released an updated report on the Crypto Core APT group attributing it to the North Korean Lazarus APT.
Binance Smart Chain experienced 8+ DeFi hacks in the past few weeks prompting an official ca…
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