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🚨 Fake-Death Rug Pull, $5.8 M DeFi Hack & Hackers Hacked — All in One Week

🚨 Fake-Death Rug Pull, $5.8 M DeFi Hack & Hackers Hacked — All in One Week

Charles Brooks
May 08, 2025

TL;DR

Zerebro’s "dead" co-founder lives on… and so do his exit scams (seriously, you can’t write this stuff).
Solana’s Loopscale gets nuked for $5.8M mere days after launch.
Hackers hack hackers: LockBit ransomware crew gets exposed, TRON DAO gets tricked.

Faked Livestream Suicide Leads to Real Investor Pain

Source: DexScreener

Here’s one for the “did that really happen?” file: Zerebro co-founder Jeffy Yu faked his own death live on camera. While his fans were lighting candles, his wallets were dumping tokens. His new coin, LLJEFFY, soared 1,000% on the “news” — then crashed 90%.

On-chain detectives (and some very angry bag-holders) discovered Yu was alive, well, and busy rug-pulling. One trader lost $93K in 60 minutes. Plot twist: the only thing that died was investor trust.

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Loopscale: Solana’s New DeFi Protocol Gets Robbed for $5.8M

File under “move fast and break everything”: Loopscale, a brand-spanking-new DeFi protocol on Solana, got exploited for $5.8 million just 14 days after launch. The culprit? A bug in the RateX-based collateral system.

The hack wiped out 12% of the platform’s total value. Loopscale locked down, called law enforcement, and tried to contain the bleeding. If you FOMO’d in early, condolences.

How it happened »

Hackers Get Hacked: 60,000 Bitcoin Wallets Exposed in LockBit Leak

Source: @RayXBF on X.com

The LockBit ransomware gang just got hacked themselves, exposing 60,000 Bitcoin wallet addresses. (No private keys leaked, but still — yikes.)

The exposure of these addresses makes it harder for LockBit to off-ramp the funds without them getting frozen.

Not only were their addresses exposed, but they got a taste of their own medicine when their dark-web site was hacked. The page content was replaced by the words: “Don’t do crime CRIME IS BAD xoxo from Prag” and a link to download the sites SQL database.

Here's to hoping these new findings lead to some recoveries!