
Symbiosis says it recovered 15 BTC after Bitcoin bridge exploit, offers attacker 20% bounty
Blockchain security firm Blockaid said roughly 46.1 billion syBTC were minted but the attacker realized only about $336,000 in proceeds.

Blockchain security firm Blockaid said roughly 46.1 billion syBTC were minted but the attacker realized only about $336,000 in proceeds.
More Markets lost 15.5 million Wrapped Flow (WFLOW) to an exploit on Flow EVM on Monday. Security firm Blockaid put the initial impact at $9.3 million. The lending protocol has not confirmed any loss. Its team said it is looking into the claim and will publish findings once the review is complete. What Blockaid Traced

The exploit highlights vulnerabilities in DeFi protocols, emphasizing the need for enhanced security measures to protect against sophisticated attacks.

Blockaid said an attacker used an Ankr liquid staking token and E-mode to overborrow from More Markets and drain about $9.3 million in WFLOW from a lending reserve.

More Markets has suffered an exploit on Flow EVM that drained about 15.5 million WFLOW from the lending protocol, with blockchain security firm Blockaid estimating the impact at roughly $9.3 million. Blockaid said in an Aug. 31 X post that…

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The first half of 2026 was the most active period for onchain security threats on record, with Blockaid verifying 212 high-threshold exploits, a 3.4-fold increase over all of 2025. North Korean Hackers Drive $600M in Stolen Funds The first half of 2026 marked the most active period for onchain security threats on record, with security […]

North Korea-linked actors drove the largest losses, with the $292M KelpDAO and $285M Drift exploits both tied to DPRK groups.

Crypto security incidents caused $1.1 billion in losses across 212 cases in H1 2026, as key compromises overtook contract bugs.

Ethereum and Solana projects lost the most during the first half of 2026, at $332 million and $326 million, respectively.

Blockaid found Ethereum remained the hardest-hit blockchain in H1 2026, while Solana replaced Arbitrum as the network with the second-highest losses, driven largely by key compromises.

Garden Finance has temporarily taken its application offline after an attacker compromised the off-chain database of an independent solver, leading to the loss of solver-owned digital assets while leaving protocol contracts and user funds unaffected. Blockchain security firm Blockaid reported…
Blockaid said an attacker drained about $450,000 in USDT from Garden Finance’s HTLC contracts across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and BNB Smart Chain.

Garden Finance's repeated security breaches highlight systemic vulnerabilities, potentially undermining trust in cross-chain DeFi protocols.

A second Verus-Ethereum bridge exploit in two months drained $7.54 million through the same vulnerability class used in May, per Blockaid.

Verus Ethereum Bridge was exploited for about $7.54 million, with Blockaid linking the attack to the same bridge flaw seen in May 2026.
AFX Trade, a protocol on Arbitrum (ARB), lost roughly 24.15 million USDC (USDC) on July 22 after an attacker exploited a bridge it operates. Security firm Blockaid flagged the attack at 21:30 UTC. It marks the 14th crypto security incident recorded in July, a month that has already surpassed June’s hack losses. Attacker Drains 24

PeckShield flagged that the attacker bridged the stolen funds from Arbitrum to Ethereum and swapped them for 12,467 ETH.
The exploit targeted a bridge operated by derivatives exchange AFX and emptied nearly all of the USDC locked in the contract, according to security firm Blockaid. Arbitrum co-founder Steven Goldfeder said the network's native bridge was not affected.

Ostium has halted trading after an exploit tied to a compromised oracle signer key drained nearly $18 million USDC from its liquidity vault, according to blockchain security firm Blockaid. Blockaid reported that the attacker gained control of an oracle signer…