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

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 ...

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But for the researchers at Group-IB, the old-school encryption-only model is not the most notable aspect of the DeadLock ...

An exploit that drained $26 million from the offline computation protocol Truebit has renewed concerns about lingering ...

A ransomware operation known as DeadLock has been observed abusing Polygon blockchain smart contracts to manage and rotate ...

An attack against two small Arbitrum projects took out $1.5M. The exploit shows even obscure protocols are watched as a ...

Ripple (XRP) launched smart contracts on AlphaNet in November 2025 to enable native DeFi applications on XRPL. XRP has struggled to convert payment infrastructure growth into sustained token demand ...

For years, “code is law” served as the rallying cry of a new digital frontier — a promise that rules, once written, would enforce themselves like clockwork. In the early architecture of Web3, smart ...