Welcome to the last Blockchain Threat Intelligence newsletter for this year. We are ending the year with just a few more hacks, one of a DeFi project and one of an exchange. Additional Livecoin exchange hack details reveal some suspicious activity and Parity hackers have suddenly awoken after 3 years. I’ll keep this edition brief, but be on a lookout for the Year in Review report coming out in the next few days.
Hacks
On December 28, 2020 COVER Protocol minting vulnerability resulted in $9.4M worth of COVER token minted by multiple attackers. One of the attackers, Grap Finance, has publicly acknowledged the hack and returned $3.2M with a message for Cover devs. Several write ups describe details of the hack. Interestingly, Binance vowed to compensate $10M of the stolen funds to its customers.
On December 28, 2020 Voyager Digital reported its DNS server getting compromised. No funds or PII were stolen according to the exchange.
On December 19, 2020 bitcoin.org website was under a heavy DDo…
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