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An El Salvador-based Bitcoin maxi says he took down 70% of the Dogecoin ($DOGE) network on Wednesday, using an old laptop and a publicly available exploit. Bitcoin sidechain developer Andreas Kohl shared screenshots on X that suggest he crashed 442 of Dogecoin’s nodes, almost 69% of the entire network, using an old Thinkpad laptop and the ‘DogeReaper’ vulnerability. ‘DogeReaper’ allows an individual to crash any Dogecoin node remotely. The exploit was revealed publicly on December 4 by the Department Of DOGE Efficiency (not to be confused with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency). Oops I just did a thing and I think I might have just crashed more than half of all doge nodes… pic.twitter.com/04NcRtj5k1 — Andreas Kohl (@aejkohl) December 11, 2024 Kohl claimed he was able to crash the majority of the Dogecoin network yesterday. Read more: Bitcoin Lightning bug could jam and steal millions of dollars “Bitcoin Monk”...

Solana-based Aurory loses 80% liquidity in Camelot’s AURY-USDC pool. SyncSpace bridge hacked; $600k AURY withdrawn and market-sold on Arbitrum. Swift response disables SyncSpace, safeguarding user funds, with ongoing investigations. In some disturbing crypto news, Aurory, a Solana-based gaming ecosystem, has fallen victim to a significant security breach resulting in an 80% loss of liquidity in its AURY-USDC pool. The breach targeted the SyncSpace Aurory Bridge on Camelot’s native DEX Arbitrum, prompting a swift response from the project team. Here’s a breakdown of the incident and the measures being taken. SyncSpace Aurory Bridge hack The Aurory team detected suspicious activity on its marketplace, leading to the discovery of the exploit in the platform’s buy endpoint. The malicious actor managed to manipulate the SyncSpace Aurory bridge, boosting their $AURY balance and withdrawing approximately 600k tokens to the Arbitrum networ...

The Web3 security firm urges the rogue developer to return 80% of the stolen funds and offers 20% as a white hat bounty. Blockchain security firm CertiK is launching a compensation plan with Ethereum layer-2 scaling platform zkSync Era to cover the $2 million lost during a public sale of Decentralized Exchange Merlin’s MAGE token. In a statement to Cointelegraph on April 26, CertiK reiterated it is investigating the exit scam and has also enlisted the remaining Merlin team to initiate the compensation plan. It said: “Initial investigations indicate that the rogue developers are based in Europe, and CertiK will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to track them down if direct negotiation is unsuccessful.” The Blockchain security company is urging the rogue developer to return 80% of the stolen funds, conceding 20% as a white hat bounty. The firm also pointed out that private key privileges are “committed to assisting impacted users” despite them being outside the scope of a s...