In a centralized system, stopping an attack can be as easy as flipping a switch. However, with decentralized setups like ...

New crooks on the block get crafty with blockchain to evade defenses Researchers at Group-IB say the DeadLock ransomware ...

DeadLock, a ransomware group that first emerged in July 2025, has made news again, and this time it is for abusing Polygon ...

The $26 million Truebit hack occurred due to a smart contract vulnerability related to a prior version of Solidity, according ...

Cybersecurity researchers are becoming interested in a newly discovered ransomware strain called DeadLock that abuses Polygon smart contracts to silently service its infrastructure and bypass ...

MakindaFi, a DeFi engine, exploited for 1,299 ETH ($4.13M) via Uniswap V3; PeckShield flagged MEV-linked transaction drain.

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Smart contracts are talked about quite a lot. What is often ignored, however, is their ...

While exploitation of security flaws in many smart contracts have become a perennial target of cyberattackers, more security firms are shining a spotlight on scams that use fraudulent or obfuscated ...

Explore how real estate tokenization works through smart contract architecture, enabling secure, transparent property ...

The DeadLock ransomware group, a newly emerged digital extortion group, is using blockchain smart contracts to store proxy ...