Echo Protocol Suffers $76M eBTC Minting Attack

Drift Protocol said its insurance fund was not affected by the recent attack and that users who staked into the fund will be able to withdraw their shares normally once the protocol is brought back online. Drift said in an…

A poisoned VS Code extension breached GitHub’s internal repositories. Around 3,800 repos may be exposed as GitHub rotates secrets and investigates the attack. A single employee’s device. That was the way in. GitHub confirmed it detected and contained a compromise involving a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an internal device. The malicious extension version […] The post GitHub Got Hit Through a Poisoned VS Code Extension Nobody Saw Coming appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.

A tracked onchain wallet known for a $24.79 million profit record just placed $21 million in simultaneous long positions on bitcoin, ether, and dogecoin. They then proceeded to add more of the same via limit orders. One Wallet, Three Assets, Three Hours Onchain intelligence platform Lookonchain tracked wallet 0x152e opening a series of long positions […]

Decentralized finance platform Echo Protocol suffered a security breach on its Monad network deployment after an attacker compromised an administrative key. Liquidity Limits Prevent Massive Losses Echo Protocol, a decentralized finance ( DeFi) platform focused on bitcoin liquidity, was hit by a security exploit on Monday, May 18, after an attacker compromised an administrative key […]

A crypto trader tracked by Lookonchain has opened a fresh leveraged long position in Dogecoin, adding DOGE exposure alongside larger Bitcoin and Ethereum bets. The move matters because the wallet, identified as 0x152e, is described by the on-chain analytics account as a “smart whale” with $24.79 million in total profit. According to Lookonchain, the trader moved aggressively across major crypto assets over a three-hour window, opening longs on Ethereum, Bitcoin and Dogecoin. The DOGE position totaled 19.47 million tokens, worth about $2.04 million, while the Ethereum and Bitcoin trades were substantially larger in dollar terms. Dogecoin Draws $2 Million Long From ‘Smart Whale’ “Smart whale 0x152e, with $24.79M in total profit, is going long on ETH, BTC, and DOGE,” Lookonchain wrote on X. “Over the past 3 hours, he opened longs on 4,601 ETH ($9.82M), 118.2 BTC ($9.11M), and 19.47M DOGE ($2.04M). He also placed limit orders to keep adding to his BTC and ETH longs.” Related Reading: How T

Echo Protocol said that a compromised admin key had enabled unauthorized eBTC minting on its Monad deployment.

Echo Protocol is investigating a security incident involving its bridge on Monad after crypto on-chain analysts said an attacker minted 1,000 eBTC and used part of the position to extract WBTC liquidity through Curvance. The first public alarm came from on-chain analyst DCF GOD, who wrote that Echo “may be hacked on Monad.” He added: […]

Echo Admin key compromise enabled $76.7M unauthorized eBTC minting. The attacker used fake eBTC to borrow and bridge real crypto assets. ECHO token dropped sharply as panic selling hit the market fast. The ECHO token came under severe pressure after a major security breach tied to the Echo Protocol led to the unauthorized minting of […] The post ECHO token plunges after $76M admin key exploit hits protocol appeared first on CoinJournal.