DeFi Security Archives - Information Security News

April 1, 2026

From Tornado Cash to Caesar’s Coins: The $53 Million Fall of the Uranium Finance Hacker

Within the United States, the exhaustive inquisition into the sensational subjugation of the cryptocurrency exchange Uranium Finance—which precipitously ceased operations several epochs ago—has reached its culmination. Forensic sentinels have unmasked the identity of the...

Cybercriminals

December 4, 2025

DeFi Exploit: Yearn Finance yETH Pool Hacked for $3 Million via ‘Super-Mint’ Flaw

Yearn Finance has suffered a serious attack on its yETH product, allowing an attacker to siphon off roughly one thousand ETH — nearly $3 million — by exploiting a flaw in the mechanics of...

Vulnerability

December 4, 2025

AI Agents Exploit Smart Contracts: Devise $4.6M in New Vulnerabilities Autonomously

AI agents have learned to discover and exploit vulnerabilities in smart contracts at a level that now carries direct financial consequences: in a new study by MATS and Anthropic Fellows, the models independently devised...