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Odaily reports: Israel's State Attorney's Office announced on Thursday that Israel has extradited Alexander Block, a dual Israeli-Russian national, to the United States. Block, whose original name is Alexander Gurevich, faces charges for allegedly stealing approximately $2.8 million from the crypto cross-chain bridge Nomad in 2022.U.S. prosecutors allege that Block, operating under the username "Bitlik," carried out six test transfers and four main transfers, moving tokens through multiple wallets and converting them into other cryptocurrencies to conceal their origin. His actions exposed a vulnerability in Nomad's smart contract, after which other users drained over $186 million from wallets controlled by the project.Israel's Supreme Court rejected Block's extradition appeal, ruling that even if the software permits the actions in question, exploiting a programming vulnerability can still constitute unauthorized computer intrusion; the court also noted that publicly visible on-chain transactions do not necessarily reveal the identity of wallet controllers, nor do they rule out attempts to conceal the source of funds. Supreme Court President Isaac Amit subsequently denied his request for a retrial. (Decrypt)
According to an official announcement from Cysic, following the cross-chain bridge security incident that occurred earlier, Cysic has fully resumed its cross-chain bridge services, and users can now once again transfer CYS across chains between the Cysic mainnet and other supported blockchains. Additionally, Cysic has permanently burned 7,200,002 CYS on the BNB Smart Chain and confirmed that this operation has been recorded on-chain.
Blockaid has published two attacker addresses, example attack transactions, victim contracts, and cross-chain bridge addresses. One of the attacker addresses (0xaCA0...5718) currently holds a balance of approximately $11,000 USD.
Zilliqa stated that the investigation into the recent security incident is ongoing. The affected components include the ZRC2 proxy contracts used by X-Bridge and certain liquidity pools, involving tokens such as zUSDT, SEED, kUSD, and Zoge. Zilliqa emphasized that the native ZIL and Zilliqa EVM networks remain unaffected. X-Bridge will continue to be suspended, and users are advised to avoid using the cross-chain bridge and affected liquidity pools for the time being.
according to Blockaid monitoring, the WAX multichain bridge on the WAX network is under attack, involving WAX, Solana, and Ethereum. The attacker withdrew mapped tokens on the WAX chain without paying the corresponding assets, while the bridge contracts on Solana and Ethereum still released the corresponding tokens. The attacker transferred approximately 52,986 USDC, 21,558 USDT, 840 DAI, 2.55 WETH, and 0.11 WBTC through 5 transactions. The scope of the incident's impact and whether losses are still expanding remain to be further confirmed.
Cysic has issued a service status update stating that the Cosmos explorer is temporarily unavailable, Cysic mainnet operations are unaffected, and explorer access is being restored as quickly as possible. Following the recent security incident, the cross-chain bridge remains paused. Funds related to pending cross-chain transactions remain safely held in the cross-chain bridge contract, and the relevant transactions will be processed once the cross-chain bridge is secure again.
The Cysic Foundation released an incident report stating that on October 17, its cross-chain bridge experienced a security incident in which an attacker minted 10 million CYS without authorization on the BNB Smart Chain. Upon discovering the anomaly, the project team suspended the cross-chain bridge, placed related addresses on an on-chain blacklist, and hired a professional security firm to investigate the attack vectors and fund flows.
Odaily reports: The crypto project Cysic has announced that its cross-chain bridge was paused on Saturday after an attacker exploited a processing flaw to mint 10 million CYS tokens without authorization on BNB Smart Chain. Preliminary investigations indicate that the attacker may have gained unauthorized access to the database supporting the bridge.The unauthorized minting occurred at 12:31:38 UTC, and Cysic blacklisted the receiving address in the token contract at 13:47:52. The address currently still holds approximately 2.8 million CYS, and related transfers have been restricted.Cysic stated that the incident only involved cross-chain bridge message processing and token minting, and did not affect the mainnet or other operating systems, nor did it result in the theft or unauthorized transfer of existing CYS or other assets in user wallets. Token transfers, swaps, and actual losses are still under review, and the company has engaged security firms and plans to release a follow-up report. (Cointelegraph)
According to Cointelegraph, cross-chain liquidity protocol Symbiosis announced that it has recovered 15 BTC (approximately $1.1 million) from its Bitcoin bridge exploit and deposited them into a team-controlled multisignature wallet. The vulnerability occurred last Friday, as the attacker exploited the protocol flaw to mint 46.1 billion uncollateralized tokens, ultimately realizing profits of 4.3 WBTC (approximately $336,000). Symbiosis had previously offered the attacker a 20% white-hat bounty in exchange for returning the assets, but the deadline has passed without any response. The protocol is now offering a 20% bounty to anyone who provides leads to assist in recovering the assets, while committing to announce a compensation plan for affected liquidity providers. The impacted Bitcoin bridge feature remains paused.
Odaily News: On-chain security platform Blockaid has discovered a vulnerability in the Bitcoin bridge of cross-chain protocol Symbiosis. The attacker minted approximately 2^62 syBTC to a newly created externally owned account, with a face value of roughly $46.1 billion calculated at 8 decimal places, and sold approximately 4.39 WBTC on Uniswap V4 on Ethereum, realizing a cash-out of about $336,000.Symbiosis stated that the attack occurred at around 4:28 AM on September 11. The team has paused the BTC route, while other routes remain operational and unaffected. The team has recovered approximately 15 BTC and deposited them into a multisig wallet controlled by the team. They have also offered the attacker a 20% white-hat bounty, with a deadline of September 13.In recent weeks, Liquid Network, Nomic, and Symbiosis have all experienced security incidents involving the inflation of supply through the minting of tokens without real asset backing. As of September 13, Symbiosis has not yet publicly released a BridgeV2 technical post-mortem, the final loss amount, or confirmation of whether the attacker has accepted the bounty. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to an announcement from the official Liquid Network X account (@Liquid_BTC), a suspected whitehat hacker withdrew approximately 4,000 BTC worth around $320 million from a Liquid Federation wallet using a SideSwap PAK (Peg-out Authorization Key). The official statement indicated that the key itself was not leaked, and the Blockstream team is attempting to contact the party through on-chain signed messages. Following the incident, exchanges have paused or are about to pause LBTC deposit and withdrawal services. Bridge nodes have been temporarily shut down, and the Liquid sidechain is currently suspended, unable to submit new transactions. Officials emphasized that other Liquid assets such as USDT, DePix, and RWA remain unaffected by this incident, while Federation members are actively working to resolve the issue to restore normal network operations as soon as possible.
Odaily News, SlowMist Security Team disclosed that the cross-chain bridge project Allbridge suffered an attack on August 19, 2026, with losses of approximately $190,000. Notably, this attack was not executed instantaneously—the attacker began laying the groundwork nearly a month in advance, bypassing the verification mechanism through forged cross-chain messages.According to SlowMist's analysis, on July 26, the attacker directly called Circle's MessageTransmitterV2.sendMessage function on the Polygon chain, constructing a cross-chain message disguised as CCTP-style, claiming a transfer of 1 million USDC, despite no actual USDC burn operation occurring. Subsequently, Circle generated a valid attestation for this complete message following standard procedures.Approximately 24 days later, on August 19, the attacker waited for the Base Router to receive a genuine CCTP deposit, bringing its balance to approximately 191,000 USDC, then launched the attack just 6 seconds later. Using the previously forged message and attestation, the attacker called Allbridge's receiveCctpMessage function. Due to the project's lack of critical validation, the system mistook the fraudulent cross-chain message for a genuine deposit and recorded a 1 million USDC credit.Subsequently, the attacker borrowed approximately 809,000 USDC temporarily via an Aave flash loan to match the Router's balance with the forged amount, then utilized the internal credit record to call the transfer function, ultimately moving out approximately 999,000 USDC (after deducting a 0.1% fee). After repaying the flash loan and fees, the attacker netted approximately $189,800 in profit. The root cause of this vulnerability lies in Allbridge's failure to verify the identity of the cross-chain message sender and receiver, as well as its failure to confirm whether USDC was genuinely minted or whether the balance actually increased—instead directly trusting the amount and message hash data constructed by the attacker.SlowMist emphasized that on-chain message verification does not equate to actual asset arrival. Cross-chain protocols must not only verify message authenticity but also ensure the message source is trustworthy, confirm the receiver is Circle's official TokenMessengerV2, and only record assets after confirming actual minting and balance changes. This incident once again highlights the security risks in cross-chain bridges' message verification and asset settlement processes.
According to reporter Kate Irwin (@kateirwin), GalaChain experienced an anomalous on-chain capital outflow this Tuesday. Approximately 1.99 billion GALA tokens (worth roughly $2.9 million), along with other tokens, were transferred from five major addresses to a newly created wallet, subsequently bridged out and swapped for ETH within approximately one hour. Of these, approximately 1.639 billion GALA (representing roughly 82%) originated from a wallet linked to Gala Games CEO and co-founder Eric Schiermeyer, which simultaneously transferred out other tokens valued at over $500,000. Within hours of the incident, the Gala development team urgently merged a fix commit on GitHub, classifying the event as resulting from a GalaChain EIP-712 unsigned field injection vulnerability. The Gala Ethereum cross-chain bridge has since been halted, with the Solana bridge concurrently deactivated. While officially cited as routine maintenance, users have been unable to access the cross-chain bridge services normally for several consecutive days.
According to EU-Startups, AI security startup Mindgard announced the completion of a €26 million (approximately $30 million) Series A funding round, led by Album VC, with participation from Karma Ventures, .406 Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, IQ Capital, and Lakestar. Mindgard was founded by Dr. Peter Garraghan in 2022, incubated by Lancaster University in the UK, and is headquartered in Boston and London. The company's platform provides Shadow AI discovery, AI red teaming, and runtime AI protection capabilities, and has helped disclose over 150 high-impact AI security vulnerabilities, covering issues such as the Cursor IDE zero-day code execution vulnerability, Google Antigravity trusted workspace defects, and ChatGPT image generation protection failures.
Odaily News: The cross-chain bridge connecting XRP Ledger and Coreum was attacked on August 9. The attacker exploited a validation logic vulnerability to steal approximately 199,900 XRP, reducing the bridge's asset balance from roughly 200,400 XRP to 493.5 XRP. The attack did not involve private key leaks and did not target the XRP Ledger protocol itself. The attacker forged deposit operations, causing the bridge system to recognize them as legitimate deposits and triggering the bridge wallet on the other end to send real XRP. On-chain data shows that the attacker completed the fund transfer through 94 multi-signature authorization transactions within 97 minutes. These transactions required signatures from 17 of the 28 relay node keys, allowing the attacker to bypass the bridge's validation mechanism. As of August 11, the Coreum cross-chain bridge remains suspended, and the Coreum Development Foundation has not yet released an official incident report. The XRP mainnet and user private keys remain unaffected and secure.
Odaily News On-chain security firm PeckShield (@PeckShieldAlert) monitoring shows that the Aztec private Rollup bridge attacker address has deposited 300 ETH, worth approximately $572,100, into Tornado Cash. As of now, the attacker has cumulatively deposited 500 ETH into Tornado Cash.Aztec suffered an attack in June 2026, with total crypto asset losses amounting to $2.165 million.
Odaily News: DefiLlama data shows that hackers stole $247 million in crypto assets in July, making it the second-highest month since 2026, trailing only April's $644 million; this figure represents a significant increase from June's $75 million and May's $60 million. Galaxy Digital stated that the Coldcard vulnerability was the largest attack event of the month, confirming three rounds of attacks involving 7,300 wallets, with at least $100 million in Bitcoin stolen; the firm also identified a suspected fourth round of attacks, which could bring total losses to approximately $130 million. DefiLlama's hack tracker estimates losses related to this vulnerability at $115 million. Other attacks in July include a $9 million exploit on decentralized finance protocol Bonzo Lend, a $2.6 million theft from Cardano-based wallet SecondFi, a $24 million theft from Arbitrum-based perpetual trading platform AFX, and a $7.5 million theft from the Verus Ethereum Bridge.
据 Wanchain 官方 X 账号发文，2026 年 7 月 20 日，Wanchain Bridge Cardano 跨链桥遭到攻击，黑客盗取 NIGHT 代币。Wanchain 随即向攻击者发出公告，要求其在 8 月 6 日 UTC 12:00 前归还 90% 被盗 NIGHT 代币，可保留 10% 作为白帽赏金，并承诺不追究民事责任。 目前，有社区用户指出黑客已将 NIGHT 代币在 DEX 上完成兑换，NIGHT 代币价格下跌逾 30%，现报 0.0188 美元。
According to CertiK Alert monitoring, a security incident occurred on VerusCoin's Ethereum cross-chain bridge, with approximately $7.53 million in assets transferred out. Preliminary analysis indicates that this issue may be related to the cross-chain bridge failing to sufficiently verify whether the Verus chain-side input supports the paid amount, similar to an incident that occurred in May this year.
According to an official post from Midnight Foundation (@midnightfdn), the Wanchain Cardano<>BNB cross-chain bridge suffered a security attack. Currently, multiple major exchanges including KuCoin, Kraken, Binance, Bybit, OKX, and MEXC have responded rapidly, taking preventive measures to restrict the flow of stolen assets, including freezing relevant accounts and addresses, blacklisting the attacker's wallets, and suspending NIGHT token deposit and withdrawal services. The exchanges confirmed that this incident is an isolated third-party bridge vulnerability and is unrelated to the Midnight Network mainnet and the NIGHT asset itself.