Just In: US DoJ Charges Engineer in First Attack on a Smart Contract

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has brought on the first criminal charges against Shakeeb Ahmed for an attack on an unnamed smart contract-controlled Decentralized Exchange (DEX) platform. DoJ and the DeFi Fraud Crackdown According to Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Shakeeb, a former security engineer for