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Jarett Dunn, aka @STACCoverflow, arrested in London for Solana memecoin exploit. Dunn used flash loans to manipulate pump.fun, stealing $2 million in liquidity. Released on bail, Dunn confessed online, citing mental health struggles and grief The alleged orchestrator of the recent Solana memecoin protocol pump.fun exploit , Jarett Dunn, known online as @STACCoverflow, has been arrest ed in London. The arrest follows a sophisticated 26-hour intelligence operation spearheaded by a third-party stakeholder who had enlisted a private intelligence firm to track Dunn’s activities. Jarett Dunn arrested in Middle Eight Hotel The operation culminated in the early hours of May 18 when local operatives, or “auxiliaries,” pinpointed Dunn’s location at the Middle Eight Hotel in Covent Garden. After a seven-hour search, British authorities apprehended Dunn, who has since been released on bail pending his court appearance in August. The Pump.fu...

Attacks on Poloniex, HTX, Heco bridge, KyberSwap, and Kronos Research earned hackers $290 million, with a week to go until November 2023 closes. As of Nov. 23, crypto hackers reportedly stole a combined $290 million from five major heists where at least $10 million was illegally ferried from each protocol. The platforms affected included three Justin Sun-related entities: HTX, Heco Bridge, and Poloniex, according to Lookonchain. Is November Hacker Month? In just 20 days, 5 major hacks occurred, with funds exceeding $290M. pic.twitter.com/e5rTf0apFD — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) November 23, 2023 Exploits on HTX and Heco occurred on Nov. 22, the second most recent attack at press time. Hackers siphoned over $13 million and $86 million, according to an alert from Cyvers, a blockchain monitoring service.  You might also like: Justin Sun’s cryptocurrency venture loses over $100m in recent hack HTX crypto exchange, rebranded from Huobi, previously lost some 5,000 Ethe...

Maestrobots, a group of crypto bots on Telegram, has refunded users 610 ETH in the aftermath of a 280 ETH smart contract exploit on Oct. 24. Maestrobots, a group of cryptocurrency bots on the Telegram messenger, is refund ing users in the aftermath of a 280 Ether (ETH) attack. The Maestro team refunded the users affected by the Maestro Router 2 contract, the platform announced on X (formerly Twitter) on Oct. 25. According to the announcement, Maestrobots paid a total of 610 ETH in its own revenue to cover all the user losses, worth more than $1 million at the time of writing. “Every wallet that lost tokens in the router exploit has now received the full amount they lost. Some of you ended up with even bigger bags,” Maestro wrote. The Maestro team noted that some amounts were paid back in affected tokens and ETH. For nine out of the 11 exploited tokens, Maestro chose to buy and refund tokens instead of sending ETH because “it's the most equitable and complete refund” it could offe...

Some Multichain contracts on Ethereum suffered withdrawals of more than half of their deposits, causing on-chain sleuths to fear an exploit is underway. Abnormally large outflows from the Multichain MPC bridge platform on July 6 have sparked fears that an exploit could be underway. Over $102 million worth of crypto has been withdrawn from Multichain’s Fantom bridge on the Ethereum side, as well as $666,000 from Dogechain and $5 million from Moonriver. Multi chain likely hacked. Exit all multi chain assets. Good idea to revoke approvals to multi chain bridge if you had any — Curve Finance (@CurveFinance) July 6, 2023 On July 6, 7,214 Wrapped Ether (WETH) tokens (worth $13.6 million), 1,024 Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) (worth $31 million) and $58 million worth of US Dollar Coin (USDC) were withdrawn from the Fantom bridge’s Ethereum smart contract, with a total of approximately $102 million in cryptocurrency withdrawn. July 6 withdrawals from the Multichain Fantom Bridge contract o...