BlockThreat - Week 8, 2021

Unchained | Furucombo | CryptoPunks | Yield Finance | Hardhat | Apple Jeus

Welcome to the slightly delayed edition of the Blockchain Threat Intelligence. This week we will explore a few unique hacks targeting CryptoPunks, Hardhat NPM packages, and others. Be sure to check out Immunefi’s gripping war-room story trying to save Primitive Finance as well as US-CERTs writeup on North Korean crypto trading malware. Last but not least, Unchained conference was a fantastic experience with several excellent talks featured below:

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• Unchained Blockchain Security Conference 2021 featured a number of fantastic talks such as using ML to detect malicious Ethereum accounts, zkRollups, user security, and many others. The conference also had a great workshop on using Scribble for smart contract vulnerability hunting and a DeFi Security panel. I also had a pleasure of presenting at the conference with The State of Blockchain Security 2021 Edition where I shared a broad overview of the blocksec ecosystem which readers of the newsletter may find useful. You can find all of the…