Welcome to the weekly highlights and analysis of the blueteamsec subreddit. The subreddit turned four years old this week - 🥳🎂🎉, this was the note I put out to celebrate.

Operationally this week it is a mixed bag of ‘stuff’ but nothing overly notable.

In the high-level this week:

• Scammers are creating new fraudulent Crypto Tokens and misconfiguring smart contract’s to steal funds - organised crime are indeed organised.

• Crypto Worth Over $320 Million Taken in Wormhole Hack - the DeFi blood bath just continues in other ways - this thread gives a fascinating insight into the alleged technical root cause.

• buyers.json to eliminate malvertising, protect users, and restore a balanced relationship between buyers and sellers - an analogue to Certificate Transparency Logs for advertising - bold initiative - be interested to see what legs it actually develops in practice.

• Focusing on “Left of Boom” - Lots of wisdom in this post, we have a habit of focusing on the flash/bang not the aspects which …