Guides & Education
How to Read a Smart Contract Audit Report
An audit badge tells you almost nothing. The scope section tells you nearly everything — which commit was reviewed, which contracts were…
AJ Vicens
Published by AJ Vicens
Guides & Education
How to Check Who Controls a Smart Contract
Most deployed contracts are upgradeable, which means someone can change what they do to funds already held. That control chain is public…
Beginner Guides
Why Most Crypto Losses Come From a Few Failure Classes
Read enough incident records and the same handful of shapes recur. Knowing the shapes is more useful than knowing the individual events.
Guides & Education
How to Verify a Security Incident Is Real
The hours after a genuine incident are when fake advisories, fake support and fake recovery tools work best. Here is how to…
News
Analysis: Key Compromise Has Overtaken Contract Exploits as Crypto’s Main Loss Driver
Wallets and key infrastructure accounted for 54% of July's losses. Across our own 25-record tracker, key compromise is already the largest attack…
News
July 2026 Crypto Losses Reach $210m Across 30 Incidents, Nearly Triple June
Monthly loss tallies put July 2026 at roughly $210m across 30 major incidents, up 177% on June. Wallets and key infrastructure —…
News
Oracle Manipulation Hits AFX, Ostium and Bonzo in Clustered July Attacks
More than $57m was reported lost across three protocols to price-feed manipulation in July — the same failure mode, three times, in…
News
BonkDAO Governance Bypass Reported at $21.2m
A governance bypass at BonkDAO was reported to have moved $21.2m — the fourth governance-path failure in our records, and the same…
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Jenna McLaughlin
Contributor · Washington, D.C., United States
Jenna McLaughlin joined Conisec in 2026 as a contributor, writing on crypto regulation and maintaining jurisdiction records, working from regulators' own publications rather than…
Jordan Robertson
Contributor · London, United Kingdom
Jordan Robertson joined Conisec in 2026 as a contributor, covering exchange and protocol incidents, with a focus on what a reader can verify for…
Conisec Staff
Newsroom
Conisec Staff is the byline on factual records compiled and verified by the newsroom rather than written by a single named reporter — Incident…