White hat helps recover $1.8M after $2.3M Foom Cash exploit

A white hat hacker recovered 80% of the $2.26 million stolen from Foom Cash during last week’s exploit, illustrating the growing importance of ethical hackers in the blockchain space.
CoinTelegraph

Ronin Network exploited for $9.8M in ETH, white hat hacker suspected

Ronin Network has lost $9.8 million worth of Ether in a potential exploit, adding to the rising number of cryptocurrency hacks in 2024. The network, one of the most popular gaming blockchains, lost ...
Dark Reading

Serbian Police Hack Protester's Phone With Cellebrite Exploit Chain

Serbian law enforcement officials are using a Cellebrite mobile "information extraction" product in tandem with an exploit chain to target dissidents, including most recently the phone of a Serbian ...
FinanceFeeds

Foom Cash Recovers $1.84M After $2.26M Exploit With Help From White Hat Hacker

Foom Cash, a decentralized lottery protocol built on zero-knowledge proofs, said it has recovered the majority of funds lost in a $2.26 million exploit after ...
Business Wire

Early Access Registration Opens to Black Hat, DEFCON, BlackGirlsHack, BSides Las Vegas Attendees for Cybersecurity’s First Vulnerability/Exploit Ethical Brokerage

LAS VEGAS & BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Desired Effect, the only vulnerability management exchange that lets organizations fully understand pre-emergent threats and lets independent researchers gain ...
Bleeping Computer

Pwn2Own hacking contest pays $1 million for WhatsApp exploit

The Zero Day Initiative is offering a $1 million reward to security researchers who will demonstrate a zero-click WhatsApp exploit at its upcoming Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 hacking contest. The record ...
Forbes

VMware Hacked As $150,000 Zero-Day Exploit Dropped

Pwn2Own hackers use $150,000 exploit on VMware ESXi. The elite hackers attending Pwn2Own in Berlin have made hacking history by successfully deploying a zero-day exploit against VMware ESXi. Having ...
Forbes

Windows 11 Hacked — Three New Pwn2Own Zero-Days Deployed

Windows 11 hacked three times on day one of PWN2OWN. Update, May 17, 2025: This story, originally published May 16, has been updated with news of another successful Windows 11 hack at the Pwn2Own ...
Ars Technica

Commercial spyware vendor exploits used by Kremlin-backed hackers, Google says

Critics of spyware and exploit sellers have long warned that the advanced hacking sold by commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) represents a worldwide danger because they inevitably find their way ...
PCMag on MSN

This iOS 'Exploit' Kit Can Hack Vulnerable iPhones Using 23 Different Attacks

Security researchers discover the 'Coruna' exploit kit running on malicious Chinese websites that were able to secretly hack vulnerable iPhones running iOS 13 to 17.2.1.
Hosted on MSN

Crypto lost to exploits, scams, hits $1.5B in February with Bybit hack: CertiK

Losses to crypto scams, exploits and hacks totaled nearly $1.53 billion in February, with the $1.4 billion Bybit hack accounting for the lion’s share of losses, said blockchain security firm CertiK.
Bleeping Computer

Hacker selling critical Roundcube webmail exploit as tech info disclosed

Hackers are likely starting to exploit CVE-2025-49113, a critical vulnerability in the widely used Roundcube open-source webmail application that allows remote execution. The security issue has been ...