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Decentralized finance (DeFi) application Delta Prime, which operates on the Arbitrum and Avalanche networks, suffered an estimated $4.5 million hack on Monday. This is the second incident to hit the ‘yield farm’ in less than two months, bringing combined losses to approximately $10.5 million. The serial hacker responsible also looks to be a keen ‘farmer,’ putting $2 million to work on other platforms. Blockchain security firm Peckshield suggested that Delta Prime “may want to take a look” at a suspicious transaction in which funds were sourced via a flash loan from the Balancer protocol. Hi @DeltaPrimeDefi, you may want to take a look pic.twitter.com/uUn7fnRCLu — PeckShield Inc. (@peckshield) November 11, 2024 Read more: DeFi app Delta Prime loses $6M after being warned of Lazarus mole A follow-up post identified the loss as linked to “ the lack of input validation in claiming possible rewards .” The official Delta Prime response to the incident estimate...

A crypto startup looking to onboard new talent is attempting to weed out possible North Korean spies with an ingenious test that asks candidates to say one simple thing: “Fuck North Korea.” According to g8keep co-founder Harrison Leggio — known as Pop Punk on X (formerly Twitter) — North Korean engineers can be outed by asking them to say something negative about North Korea and Kim Jong Un.  To demonstrate this, he shared an interaction with a potential recruit applying for a developer role. When asked to say the words “ I hate Kim Jong Un, Fuck North Korea ,” the potential recruit “immediately” deleted the chat.  This is how you identify a North Korean engineer. I asked him to say something negative about North Korea and Kim Jong Un and he immediately deleted the chat. pic.twitter.com/8zAtb3qML6 — Pop Punk (@PopPunkOnChain) August 26, 2024 Users on X are already joking about using the North Korea litmus test in their own online chats. Software engineer Laurenc...