Helping investigate a $265,000 hack on decentralized crypto exchange KyberSwap, crypto exchange Binance narrowed down two suspects that seem responsible for the attack. On Sept. 1, Kyber Network succumbed to a frontend exploit, allowing the attacker to make away with $265,000 worth of user funds from KyberSwap. While investigations were underway, KyberSwap offered a 10% bounty — of roughly $40,000 — to the hacker as means to remediate the situation. Parallelly, based on an independent investigation, Binance’s security team identified two suspects that may be responsible for orchestrating the virtual heist. Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao confirmed that the intel had been sent to the Kyber team. #Binance security team has identified two suspects for yesterday’s KyberSwap hack. W...
KyberSwap, the decentralized exchange built on liquidity protocol Kyber Network, has offered a hacker 15% of the funds from a $265,000 exploit as a bug bounty. In a Thursday blog post, Kyber Network said a hacker had used a frontend exploit to pilfer roughly $265,000 worth of user funds from KyberSwap. The protocol said it will compensate all users for any missing funds related to the exploit, and directly addressed the hacker to give them an opportunity to return the funds in exchange for “a conversation with our team” and 15% of what was taken — roughly $40,000. “We know the addresses you own have received funds from central exchanges and we can track you down from there,” said Kyber Network. “We also know the addresses you own have OpenSea profiles and we can track you through the NFT c...
Decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator KyberSwap has launched on the layer-two Ethereum scaling solution Arbitrum network. The move puts Kyberswap on its seventh network or scaling solution along with Ethereum (ETH), Polygon (MATIC), Fantom (FTM), BSC (BNB), Avalanche (AVAX), and Cronos (CRONOS). KyberSwap joins SwaprEth, Balancer Labs, Curve Finance, and SushiSwap as the DEXes available on Arbitrum as of the time of writing. KyberSwap DEX Aggregator Launches Integration with L2 Scaling Solution @OffchainLabs #Arbitrum NetworkTrade tokens on #KyberSwap at faster speeds and with lower costs, with the best rates! Trade and earn now: https://t.co/Yl4MTlr0di Learn more: https://t.co/ksSu1YjQkt pic.twitter.com/sUI00hnsk5 — Kyber Network (@KyberNetwork) March 7, 2022 The KyberSwap team points t...