Newsletter #44

This week in Forta! Blowfish begins using Forta to power wallet security offering. The Web3 security community is ramping up research under Forta bounties. How to delete token spam with the Forta community’s newest solution, the Spam Detector. Cut through the noise to make sense of alert data.

Blowfish begins using Forta to power wallet security offering. In an industry where securing digital assets is paramount, Blowfish takes a significant stride by utilizing Forta threat intelligence to augment their Web3 security platform. Blowfish is leveraging Forta’s Scam Detector to protect wallet users from scams, phishing, rug pulls, address poisoning, and other attacks that cost users millions of dollars. Read more about the integration in Forta’s blog.

Threat intelligence generated by Forta’s Scam Detector is now ready for your API calls. Forta’s fully productized Scam Detector is the clear choice for wallets, compliance companies, and RPC providers looking to protect their users. With 15+ scam types covered across seven networks and tens of thousands of addresses flagged each month, your choice of threat intelligence should be clear.

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The Web3 security community is ramping up research under Forta bounties. Over the last few weeks, Forta’s community has begun development on numerous bounties that will push forward the threat detection landscape. So far, over $10k in bounties have been assigned in October with more to come. If you’re up to the challenge, apply below to the two still un-assigned bounties and earn rewards for protecting Web3!

- $1,200: Hiding in Plain Sight Evasion bounty
- $1,000: Email harvesting bounty

How to delete token spam with the Forta community’s newest solution, the Spam Detector. Scam token deception may be at an end with the introduction of the Spam Detector, a novel detection implementation created by Forta community member Artem Kovalchuk. This tool is engineered to address the prevalent issue of spam tokens on EVM blockchains, enhancing security and promoting a safer user environment. The Spam Detector is now available for use by protocols, infrastructure projects, and individuals within the Forta App for $49/month.

Cut through the noise to make sense of alert data. In the quest to bolster blockchain security, alert noise is becoming a pressing concern. As incident response platforms emerge, one can start utilizing streamlined automated incident response workflows! But the success of solutions with mitigative actions, like the pausing of the protocol, require the discernment of genuine threats from false positives. Could relying on Attack Detector alerts inadvertently cause disruptions to your protocol operations? The short answer is no, but dive deeper and discover the solution in Forta’s latest blog.

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- Latest hack is a perfect case study in the promise of incident response
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