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🚨 ALLBRIDGE CORE ON SOLANA EXPLOITED FOR $1.6 MILLION

An attacker used a $1.12 million flash loan to manipulate Allbridge's liquidity pools, allowing them to turn roughly $3,000 USDC into $2.2 million USDT before withdrawing the funds.

Allbridge has paused the affected protocol while it investigates the incident and has urged impacted users to withdraw their funds.

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🚨 42DAO EXPLOITED FOR $762K!

An attacker exploited a vulnerability in 42DAO, allowing them to withdraw funds and cash out around $762,000 before the issue was detected.

The exploit is still ongoing, with the protocol estimated to be left with millions of dollars worth of bad debt.

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👀 QR CODE LETTER SCAM STEALS $1.5 MILLION

Australian Police have warned of a sophisticated phishing scam after victims lost more than $1.47 million in early July. Fraudsters are mailing personalised letters containing QR codes that direct victims to fake cryptocurrency websites.

Once scanned, the sites trick victims into revealing their wallet recovery phrases or approving malicious transactions, allowing attackers to drain their crypto wallets.

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🚨 LIEN FINANCE HIT BY $542K EXPLOIT

An attacker manipulated Lien Finance's pricing system, allowing them to exchange worthless assets for approximately $542,000 USDC before draining the protocol.

The exploit targeted Lien Finance's OTC trading pools on Ethereum. The stolen funds remain in the attacker's wallet.

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🚨 EUROPOL TARGETS THE COM IN MAJOR ONLINE CRACKDOWN

Europol has flagged more than 4,300 websites and online pages linked to The Com for removal as part of a coordinated operation involving law enforcement from nine countries.

Authorities say the operation targeted online infrastructure used to spread violent extremist content, recruit members and facilitate cybercrime. The crackdown builds on Project Compass, which has already led to 30 arrests and identified 179 suspects.

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🚨 MORE THAN $9.3M DRAINED FROM TRIPLE-A HOT WALLETS

More than $9.3 million has been drained from wallets linked to crypto payments platform "Triple-A" across Ethereum, TRON, TON and Solana, with the stolen funds being swapped and bridged to Ethereum.

The incident appears to be ongoing, with reports that new deposits are still being drained as they arrive. Triple-A has not yet publicly acknowledged the incident or disabled deposits.

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👀 $253 MILLION LOST TO CRYPTO HACKS IN JUST 90 DAYS

More than $253 million has been lost to crypto hacks over the past 90 days, averaging roughly $2.8 million stolen every day.

Of that total, around $179.6 million was stolen from DeFi protocols, while bridge-related hacks accounted for roughly $97.7 million.

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🚨 UPDATE: ANOTHER $1.8M DRAINED FROM TRIPLE-A

More than 31 hours after suspicious outflows were first detected, new deposits linked to Triple-A are reportedly still being drained.

An additional $1.8 million has now been taken across Bitcoin and TRON, bringing the reported total above $11.1 million.

Triple-A has responded by stating: “We confirm that customers’ funds are not impacted.”

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