Judge overturns fraud convictions in Mango Markets exploit case

Judge overturns fraud convictions in Mango Markets exploit case

A US judge vacated Mango Markets exploiter’s fraud convictions, ruling the DeFi protocol’s permissionless design left no room for misrepresentation. A US federal judge has vacated key fraud and manipulation convictions against Avraham Eisenberg, the trader at the center of the case involving a $110 million exploit of the decentralized exchange Mango Markets. On Friday,…

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Mysterious hacking group Careto was run by the Spanish government, sources say

Mysterious hacking group Careto was run by the Spanish government, sources say

More than a decade ago, researchers at antivirus company Kaspersky identified suspicious internet traffic of what they thought was a known government-backed group, based on similar targeting and its phishing techniques. Soon, the researchers realized they had found a much more advanced hacking operation that was targeting the Cuban government, among others. Eventually the researchers…

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Curve Finance warns its DNS has been hijacked again

Curve Finance warns its DNS has been hijacked again

Onchain security firm Blockaid speculates it might be a front end attack, and says not to sign transactions and avoid interactions with Cuve until the issue is resolved. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance has warned that a hacker has again hijacked its domain name system (DNS), sending users to a malicious website.   In the…

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