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Market makers watched helplessly as a calldata corruption vulnerability transformed their resolver contracts into ATMs for a crafty attacker who needed nothing more than basic arithmetic and an integer overflow.
The _settleOrder function, supposed to be long retired, was a relic from 1inch's earlier architecture where vulnerabilities could silently thrive - a perfect attack vector hiding in plain sight.
Nine audit teams missed it. Two years passed without incident.
Then one hacker with a calculator and a dream discovered that setting an interaction length to negative 512 could underflow memory pointers and redirect suffix data - transforming a simple integer trick into positive millions.
The exploit's elegance was brutal in its simplicity - cracking a nine-times-audited vault with nothing but a negative number and the audacity to try it.
Mid-heist, our digital bank robber took a moment to slide a note across the counter: "Can I have bounty?"
Because in crypto's backwards universe, robbers expect tip jars at the scenes of their crimes.
Still think those security guarantees are worth the PDFs they're printed on?
Stories and Articles
• Lazarus Strikes npm Again with New Wave of Malicious Packages [Read more]
• SilentCryptoMiner Infects 2,000 Russian Users via Fake VPN and DPI Bypass Tools [Read more]
• ZK Email Ensuring Email Privacy with Zero Knowledge Proofs [Read more]
• BugBounty platform HackerOne has allegedly leaked all its users, including platform access passwords [Read more]
• What to Do After Your First Cyber-Attack – So There’s No Second One [Read more]
Research of the Week
Crypto Gaming Is Just Ponzinomics with Extra Steps
You’re not grinding for loot. You’re grinding for exit liquidity. Every crypto game sells the same dream—play, earn, and get rich while having fun. But dig beneath the flashy trailers, the tokenized gear, and the roadmap buzzwords, and you’ll find the same old game: Ponzinomics wrapped in pixel art.
The play-to-earn (P2E) model isn’t about creating sustainable economies—it’s about keeping fresh money flowing in. New players buy in, existing players cash out, and the cycle repeats—until it doesn’t. These games don’t grow because people love playing them. They grow because people think they can profit from them. The second new money dries up? So does your “in-game economy.”
And let’s be real—most of these games are barely games at all. Clunky mechanics, copy-paste metaverse promises, and low-effort art slapped onto blockchain contracts. No one would play them if there wasn’t money involved. The developers know this, so instead of building engaging gameplay, they focus on tokenomics designed to pump. Staking rewards, liquidity pools, breeding mechanics—it’s all just Ponzi fuel disguised as “game design.”
By the time you realize your in-game assets are worthless, the insiders have already cashed out. Guilds dump on casual players. Whales control the economy. The devs? They’re either gone or launching the next “revolutionary” P2E project with a slightly different name. And just like that, the same money rotates into the next cycle, feeding a new wave of bagholders.
So how do you know if a crypto game is legit? Simple: if the game isn’t fun without the token, it’s a scam. If the only reason people are playing is because they can make money, then you’re not gaming—you’re gambling, and someone else is the house.
Play-to-earn is just pay-to-exit in disguise. If you’re not early, you’re just funding the next round.
Memes and Videos
How Russia Hacked an Entire Country
What started as a monument dispute turned into a cyber beatdown, with Estonia getting bricked by Russian nationalist hackers. Banks, government sites, and entire networks got smoked in a denial-of-service blitz, proving that modern warfare doesn’t need tanks—just a botnet and a grudge. Estonia recovered, but the damage was done—the playbook for cyber warfare was written, and the rest of the world is still pretending it’s not coming for them next.
Source: Cybernews
Source: 0xgaut
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