No major hacks or vulnerabilities reported this week, so we can finally catch up on a number of fun security conference talks from samczsun, Taylor Monahan, and a fireside chat with Stani, Julien and Sunny. Ledger’s Donjon posted solutions to the CTF, Metamask advises on an ongoing phishing campaign, a number of cryptocurrency companies are getting DDoSed, and other blockchain security news in this week’s edition.
Crime
Alexander Vinnik sentenced to 5 years in French prison for money laundering. Vinnik was one of the co-founders of the infamous BTC-e exchange involved in money laundering operations for various criminal enterprises such as CryptoWall ransomware, Fancy Bear APT, and others.
Oyster Protocol scammer, Bruno Block, arrested. In 2018 Bruno executed a backdoor in the Oyster Pearl smart contract to steal 3M PRL (~$300K at the time).
Hacks
On December 11th, 2020 a vulnerability in Seal Finance was exploited to steal $58K worth of SEAL tokens.
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