The Latest Breaking News from CertiK

Crypto users are calling out leading blockchain security firm CertiK after the co-founder of Web3 token platform g8keep revealed that the blockchain auditing platform gave it a low score even without a code available for scoring.

A crypto whale account that already lost over $600,000 to a phishing attack last year has once again been exploited, but this time, the losses have climbed to the millions.

The cryptocurrency kingdom has lost some $239 million worth of digital assets in just four months in 2024 to private key compromises, indicating that threat actors will continue to use this specific attack vector to steal funds from even the biggest crypto figures and entities this year.

Funds traced back to the September 2023 phishing of a crypto whale's account moved Thursday, Certik revealed, once again urging cryptocurrency users to be vigilant amid the evolution of crypto scam methods.

Bitcoin bridge OrdiZK, which was painted by its developers as a Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana bridge, has reportedly vanished, taking with over a million worth of Ether into the unknown.

Seneca was exploited for around $6.4 million Wednesday, but the hacker has since returned millions worth of the pilfered ETH and kept some 20% of the stolen funds.

November stood out as the month with the highest reported losses last year, totaling $363,367,327 from 45 incidents.

The exchange assured users no customers' assets had been compromised by the vulnerability even before the fix was deployed.

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