The Role of SlowMist in Empowering Regulatory Compliance through Technology On May 23, 2023, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced the “Summary of Consultation on Proposed Regulatory Provisions Applicable to Licensed Operators of Virtual Asset Trading Platforms.” It was noted that the consultation period ended on March 31, during which the SFC received 152 feedback submissions from…

Ed25519 is an elliptic curve-based digital signature algorithm that is efficient, secure, and widely adopted. This algorithm is utilized in a myriad of applications, including but not limited to, TLS 1.3, SSH, Tor, ZCash, WhatsApp, and Signal. This article aims to shed light on the following aspects: 1. Introduction to…

Background A prominent wallet’s private key was compromised and the stolen funds were subsequently transferred into the Wasabi obfuscation tool for transaction mixing. The victim sought assistance from our MistTrack team (https://misttrack.io/). The team performed a withdrawal analysis of the stolen funds mingled within the Wasabi Coinjoin, successfully tracing…

Background On May 11th, a Twitter user with the handle “pineapple.eth” shared a tweet reporting that they inadvertently clicked on a phishing website (syncswap[.]network). This unfortunate action led to the compromise of their wallet and a loss exceeding $100.

Background Overview In our previous article, we delved into the hidden malicious code within contracts. This time, let’s explore a very common attack method — front-running. Preliminary Knowledge When we mention front-running, the first thing that probably comes to mind is a track and field race. In athletics, the competitors’…

In the NFT sector of cryptocurrency, an increasing number of phishing websites are exploiting the eth_sign signature function for blind signature fraud. It is crucial to remind or even disable this low-level signature method to protect user safety. …

On October 27, 2022, according to the SlowMist security team, both the Victor the Fortune (VTF) token and the V8 protocol (V8) token had serious vulnerabilities and were attacked. The attackers made about $58,000 and $53,000 in profit, respectively. The SlowMist Security Team intervened and analyzed the situation promptly. …

According to SlowMist Zone Intelligence, on Nov 4, 2022, an address on the BNB Chain minted more than $1billion in pGALA tokens and then sold some via PancakeSwap. This caused the price of pGala to briefly drop more than 20%. …

According to the SlowMist Security Team, on February 2nd, 2023, the BonqDAO project on the Polygon chain was attacked. The attacker netted about 113 million WALBT and 98.65 million BEUR tokens. The SlowMist security team immediately intervened to analysis the incident and shared the results as follows: