Tag: Smart Contracts

  • The Register: Ongoing typosquatting campaign impersonates hundreds of popular npm packages

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/05/typosquatting_npm_campaign/ Source: The Register Title: Ongoing typosquatting campaign impersonates hundreds of popular npm packages Feedly Summary: Puppeteer or Pupeter? One of them will snoop around on your machine and steal your credentials An ongoing typosquatting campaign is targeting developers via hundreds of popular JavaScript libraries, whose weekly downloads number in the tens of…

  • Wired: Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/pig-butchering-scams-go-high-tech/ Source: Wired Title: Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech Feedly Summary: Scammers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to AI, deepfakes, and dangerous malware in a way that makes their pig butchering operations even more convincing. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the alarming rise of digital scams…

  • Hacker News: Visa Introduces the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform

    Source URL: https://usa.visa.com/about-visa/newsroom/press-releases.releaseId.20881.html Source: Hacker News Title: Visa Introduces the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Short Summary: Visa’s Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP) offers banks a new way to issue and manage fiat-backed tokens on blockchains, leveraging smart contracts and ensuring interoperability across public and permissioned networks. With an…

  • Rekt: Bedrock – Rekt

    Source URL: https://www.rekt.news/bedrock-rekt Source: Rekt Title: Bedrock – Rekt Feedly Summary: Bedrock just got a lesson in why you should always double-check your math homework. In a twist that would make even a quantum physicist’s head spin, their uniBTC vault decided to play fast and loose with exchange rates, turning Ethereum deposits into a $2m…

  • The Register: Victims lose $70k to one single wallet-draining app on Google’s Play Store

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/26/victims_lose_70k_to_play/ Source: The Register Title: Victims lose $70k to one single wallet-draining app on Google’s Play Store Feedly Summary: Attacker got 10k people to download ‘trusted’ web3 brand cheat before Mountain view intervened The latest in a long line of cryptocurrency wallet-draining attacks has stolen $70,000 from people who downloaded a dodgy app…

  • Rekt: Penpie – Rekt

    Source URL: https://www.rekt.news/penpie-rekt Source: Rekt Title: Penpie – Rekt Feedly Summary: The crypto world never sleeps and neither do its hackers. In the latest episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire – DeFi Edition, Penpie has found itself on the wrong end of a $27 million exploit. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The…