In episode 44 we talked about Bitcoin.org being compromised to redirect people to a scam. A Compound bug caused excess rewards to be sent out. pNetwork and VeeFinance were both hacked for millions of dollars. A malicious browser extension called Safepal was discussed. The largest bug bounty ever was paid equaling $1,050,000. We discussed an issue in SMS-based MFA resulting in theft from Coinbase users. Lastly, we talked about the many crypto-related puzzles currently available to participate in.

Show Notes at: https://coinsecpodcast.com/Episode-44-216ff3b62e21423c8be6e7134cca983b

 

00:00 - CoinSec Podcast 44 03:33 - Story # 1: https://decrypt.co/81612/bitcoin-org-compromised-fraudulent-crypto-giveaway-advertised 07:38 - Story # 2: https://twitter.com/dafthack/status/1439348515986104323?s=21 11:47 - Story # 3: https://www.rekt.news/overcompensated/ 19:22 - Story # 4: https://decrypt.co/81301/defi-bridging-protocol-pnetwork-suffers-12-million-hack 24:40 - Story # 5: https://rekt.news/veefinance-rekt/ 27:05 - Story # 6: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-safepal-wallet-firefox-add-on-stole-cryptocurrency/ 32:15 - Story # 7: https://medium.com/immunefi/belt-finance-logic-error-bug-fix-postmortem-39308a158291 38:02 - Story # 8: https://twitter.com/electroneum/status/1440269750215479301?s=19 41:56 - Story # 9: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-rob-thousands-of-coinbase-customers-using-mfa-flaw/ 49:09 - Crypto Puzzles!