{"id":145146,"date":"2022-08-30T02:24:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T07:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/fbi-hackers-increasingly-exploit-defi-bugs-to-steal-cryptocurrency"},"modified":"2022-08-30T02:24:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T07:24:41","slug":"fbi-hackers-increasingly-exploit-defi-bugs-to-steal-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/fbi-hackers-increasingly-exploit-defi-bugs-to-steal-cryptocurrency","title":{"rendered":"FBI: Hackers increasingly exploit DeFi bugs to steal cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fbi-hackers-increasingly-exploit-defi-bugs-to-steal-cryptocurrency2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning investors that cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting security vulnerabilities in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platforms to steal cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI has observed cyber criminals exploiting vulnerabilities in the smart contracts governing DeFi platforms to steal investors\u2019 cryptocurrency,\u201d the federal law enforcement agency said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI encourages investors who suspect cyber criminals have stolen their DeFi investments to contact the FBI via the Internet Crime Complaint Center or their local FBI field office.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning investors that cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting security vulnerabilities in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platforms to steal cryptocurrency. \u201cThe FBI has observed cyber criminals exploiting vulnerabilities in the smart contracts governing DeFi platforms to steal investors\u2019 cryptocurrency,\u201d the federal law enforcement agency said. \u201cThe FBI encourages investors who [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,45,418,1493,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-finance","category-internet","category-law-enforcement","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}