Moonwell’s $1.78 million oracle mispricing exploit is reigniting debate over “vibe-coded” smart contracts and how AI tools like Claude Opus 4.6 should be governed in DeFi development.

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Truebit lost $26 million after a smart-contract overflow bug let an attacker mint tokens at near-zero cost, sending the TRU price down 99%. A $26 million exploit of the offline computation protocol ...

Under a hazy gray sky on the first day of 1995, the Draupner natural gas platform in the North Sea was struck by something that had long been relegated to maritime folklore: an 84-foot wall of water ...

Windows doesn’t offer a single switch to disable Exploit Protection completely. You can only disable individual mitigations system-wide or per app. We strongly recommend turning it off only for ...

Balancer, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol with over $750 million in value locked, appears to have been hit by its biggest exploit yet, with on-chain data showing upward of $110 million in ...

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Earlier this year, a developer was shocked by a message that appeared on his personal phone: “Apple detected a targeted mercenary spyware attack against your iPhone.” “I was panicking,” Jay Gibson, ...

The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he says, is the view from his window. Situated on a hill above the ancient port city of Trieste, Italy, his office at the International School for Advanced ...

Once thought to be sailors’ myths, rogue waves gained credibility after a towering 80-foot wall of water struck the Draupner oil platform in 1995. New research shows that these extreme waves don’t ...

Hackers drained 58.2 bitcoin BTC $84,363.63, worth about $7 million, from memecoin launchpad Odin.fun in a sophisticated liquidity manipulation exploit that is being linked to China-based hacking ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Twice every year, some of the best hackers on the planet get ...