1843 hack event(s)
Description of the event: Jupiter co-founder Meow's X account was reportedly hacked and posted token CA-related content, which has now been deleted. Users are advised to stay vigilant.
Amount of loss: - Attack method: Account Compromise
Description of the event: Pumpfun's X account has been hacked, and the attacker is using it to promote fake tokens.
Amount of loss: - Attack method: Account Compromise
Description of the event: Suji Yan, the founder of the Mask Network, suffered the loss of more than $4 million in various cryptocurrency assets to an apparent wallet hack.
Amount of loss: $ 4,000,000 Attack method: Unknown
Description of the event: The crypto-focused stablecoin neobank Infini was attacked, with the attacker gaining access to a wallet with admin rights and stealing nearly $50 million from the company.
Amount of loss: $ 50,000,000 Attack method: Lack of Strict Access Control
Description of the event: On February 21, 2025, on-chain investigator ZachXBT revealed a large-scale outflow of funds from the Bybit platform, resulting in the theft of over $1.46 billion.
Amount of loss: $ 1,500,000,000 Attack method: Wallet Stolen
Description of the event: On February 18, 2025, Abstract discovered a security incident involving the Cardex app within The Portal, affecting approximately 9,000 wallets with a total loss of around $400,000 in ETH. A leaked key in Cardex's frontend code led to the compromise of the session signer wallet. Since this wallet was shared across all sessions, all users who had created sessions on Cardex were impacted.
Amount of loss: $ 400,000 Attack method: Private Key Leakage
Description of the event: According to community reports, the X account of ai16z founder Shaw has allegedly been compromised by hackers. Users are advised to exercise caution and avoid interacting with suspicious links.
Amount of loss: - Attack method: Account Compromise
Description of the event: Argentine President Javier Milei promoted a cryptocurrency called $LIBRA on social media. Following his endorsement, the token's price surged rapidly but later suffered a severe crash.
Amount of loss: $ 100,000,000 Attack method: Rug Pull
Description of the event: The leading lending platform on the Starknet chain, zkLend, has suffered an attack. The core reason for this breach lies in the fact that the value of the accumulator in an empty market can be manipulated and amplified using a unique mechanism in flash loans. Additionally, the market contract's use of the SafeMath library performs division using direct division, allowing the attacker to exploit the amplified accumulator to trigger a rounding-down vulnerability for profit.
Amount of loss: $ 9,600,000 Attack method: Contract Vulnerability
Description of the event: The memecoin platform Four.Meme was attacked. According to an analysis by the SlowMist security team, the attacker was able to execute a frontrunning attack by pre-creating a liquidity pool on PancakeSwap v3 with an extremely high token price. When the token was integrated into PancakeSwap v3, liquidity was added based on the unbalanced pool set up by the attacker. Since the project team did not verify the pool's price, the added liquidity followed the maliciously set price. As a result, the attacker was able to exploit this mechanism to drain assets from the pool.
Amount of loss: $ 183,000 Attack method: Business Logic Flaw
Description of the event: According to monitoring by the SlowMist security team, Cashverse appears to have been attacked on BSC.
Amount of loss: $ 107,900 Attack method: Contract Vulnerability
Description of the event: According to monitoring by the SlowMist security team, BankX appears to have been attacked on BSC, ETH, and Optimism.
Amount of loss: $ 43,000 Attack method: Contract Vulnerability
Description of the event: The X account of Tanzanian businessman and entrepreneur Mohammed Dewji MO (@moodewji) was compromised. The hacker falsely announced the launch of a TANZANIA token and sold it to investors.
Amount of loss: - Attack method: Account Compromise
Description of the event: JupiterDAO confirmed on X that the official Jupiter X account (@JupiterExchange) has been compromised. Users are advised not to click on any links or copy-paste any contract addresses.
Amount of loss: - Attack method: Account Compromise
Description of the event: According to a post by SlowMist founder Cos on X, the X account of former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad (@chedetofficial) was compromised and used to promote a fake token. The creator of the associated contract address (CA) has ties to a previously known malicious group.
Amount of loss: - Attack method: Account Compromise
Description of the event: On February 4, 2025, the Ionic protocol suffered a social engineering attack, allowing the attacker to use a forged Lombard Bitcoin Token (LBTC) as collateral. This asset was deployed on the Mode network. The attacker deployed the forged LBTC on January 9, 2025, while Ionic records indicate that the attacker began interacting with the platform as early as December 12, 2024. After several weeks of business development (BD) discussions, the Ionic team approved the fraudulent asset as eligible collateral and provided a Balancer pool with $400,000 in liquidity, along with API3 oracle price feeds. Ultimately, the Ionic Mode main market accepted the forged LBTC as collateral, with a total supply of 250 LBTC. The attacker minted 250 LBTC in their own wallet and deposited them into Ionic as collateral, stealing $12.3 million worth of supplied assets.
Amount of loss: $ 12,300,000 Attack method: Social Engineering
Description of the event: The official TIME Magazine X account was allegedly compromised and posted about the TIME token.
Amount of loss: - Attack method: Account Compromise
Description of the event: The Tor Project X account has been compromised. The hacker is using the account to promote a fake token. Users should stay vigilant.
Amount of loss: - Attack method: Account Compromise
Description of the event: According to DL News, Dean Norris, the actor who played Hank Schrader in Breaking Bad, became the target of a hack on the X platform for the second time in six months. The attack started with a tweet from Norris' account announcing his decision to launch his own cryptocurrency called Dean, along with the contract address. The attackers even shared a manipulated photo of Norris holding a notebook with the token's symbol and date hastily written on it. Within hours, the meme coin's market value surged to $7 million, but after Norris confirmed the scam, its value plummeted by 90%.
Amount of loss: - Attack method: Account Compromise
Description of the event: The X account of former Brazilian President Jair Messias Bolsonaro was hacked and used to promote the token. The original post has since been deleted.
Amount of loss: - Attack method: Account Compromise