Crypto & mining news

Headlines aggregated from 9 publishers, newest first, with mining and hardware stories tagged so they surface without wading through price chatter. Every entry links straight to the publisher — nothing is rehosted here, and the excerpt is the publisher’s own.

• 24d ago

  Google Built an AI That Hunts Its Own Security Bugs

  Google's PageBreak agent autonomously finds and verifies real vulnerabilities in its own web apps, cutting through the flood of noisy AI-generated security reports.

  DecryptSecurity

• 24d ago

  Circle and Tether Freeze Stablecoins Tied to Bitget Hack—But Most Funds Slip Away

  The two stablecoin issuers blacklisted a wallet labeled "Bitget Exploiter 8," locking about $318,000 in USDC and USDT—but the attacker swapped most funds into unfreezable ETH before they could act.

  DecryptEthereumSecurityDeFi

• 24d ago

  Bitget Hack Losses Climb to $387M: Here’s What Happened, and Why North Korea Is a Suspect

  An attacker faked internal transfer requests to drain $387.5 million from Bitget's hot and warm wallets, and the exchange's CEO says the fingerprints look like Pyongyang's.

  DecryptSecurity

• 24d ago

  Magic Eden Warns Old Ethereum NFT Listings Are Exposed to Payment Processor Exploit

  A flaw in Limit Break's Payment Processor V2 put old Magic Eden Ethereum listings at risk, prompting a whitehat rescue of more than 23,000 NFTs.

  DecryptEthereumSecurity

• 24d ago

  KelpDAO Developer Sues LayerZero Over $292M Bridge Exploit

  Evercrest says LayerZero approved the single-verifier configuration in writing multiple times, then warned a different developer about it.

  DecryptSecurity

• 25d ago

  Bitget Hacked as $350 Million Vanishes From Crypto Exchange Wallets

  A newly created wallet drained hot and cold reserves labeled as belonging to Bitget across multiple blockchains in under an hour.

  DecryptSecurity

• 25d ago

  In Her Final Weeks, SEC's Peirce Calls for Ending the KYC 'Panopticon'

  In one of her final speeches as commissioner, Peirce argued that regulators' "data haystacks" endanger the people they aim to protect—as recent KYC leaks expose crypto holders to phishing and physical attacks.

  DecryptRegulationSecurity

• 25d ago

  Brooklyn Man Who Bragged About $16M Coinbase Scam Gets Up to 12 Years

  He posed as support staff, emptied about 100 accounts, then lost $6 million of the proceeds gambling, according to his own messages.

  DecryptSecurity

• 25d ago

  An AI Agent Just Hacked a Government Website for the First Time, Australia PM Says

  Anthony Albanese said the agent accessed public and non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal in June, calling OpenAI's three-month delay in disclosing the breach "unacceptable."

  DecryptSecurity

• 26d ago

  OpenAI Gives Ukraine Access to Daybreak AI Cyber-Defense Tool

  OpenAI is giving Ukraine's government access to Daybreak, its AI vulnerability-hunting system, as the country's cyber defenders face a record wave of attacks on hospitals, power grids, and government networks.

  DecryptSecurity

• 26d ago

  North Korea's Fake Job Interviews Drained $11M From 7,000 Crypto Wallets

  A seven-agency advisory ties the WaterPlum hacking crew and Pyongyang's remote IT worker scheme to the same bureau.

  DecryptSecurity

• 27d ago

  White-Hat Hackers Route Coldcard Exploit Bitcoin Into 'Recovery Trust'

  Galaxy Research says white-hat actors consolidated coins tied to the exploit into a fresh address tagged for a "Crypto Recovery Trust," though the funds represent just 2.8% of the total haul.

  DecryptBitcoinSecurity

• 27d ago

  Google Admits Gemini AI Hacked Three Companies—It Stayed Silent for 7 Weeks

  Google learned in late July that Gemini had breached three real companies during a May security test, but said nothing publicly for seven weeks.

  DecryptSecurity

• 1mo ago

  OpenAI Models Are Writing Their Own Jailbreak Instructions—And Sometimes Obeying Them

  OpenAI's new transparency framework reveals AI models that invented fake "breach alerts," coached themselves to hide mistakes, and smuggled a file onto the public internet to talk to each other.

  DecryptSecurity

• 1mo ago

  Revolut Hackers Demand $3M Monero Ransom, Threaten to Sell Customer Data: Report

  The group says it chose whom to target by scanning the blockchain for Revolut accounts holding significant crypto.

  DecryptSecurity

• 1mo ago

  OpenAI's Rogue AI Agents Were Probing Hugging Face Two Months Before Hack

  An independent researcher found the agents hijacked Hugging Face accounts and mapped the platform's defenses as early as May 13—activity OpenAI's own incident report never fully described.

  DecryptSecurity

• 1mo ago

  Hackers Hijack HBO Max’s Reddit Account to Spread Crypto-Stealing Malware

  Attackers ran 108 malicious ads through the streaming service’s verified account, directing users to fake software downloads.

  DecryptSecurity

• 1mo ago

  OpenAI's Brockman Says Safety Concerns Have Already Slowed Its Most Advanced AI Work

  Greg Brockman says OpenAI delayed launches and reworked its processes after a pre-release model broke out of a sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face.

  DecryptSecurity

• 1mo ago

  MetaMask Adds New Wallet Protections Against Crypto Scams

  MetaMask’s latest safeguards flag suspicious transfers and stop transactions that don’t match their previews.

  DecryptSecurity

• 1mo ago

  Cyberattacks on Law Firms Nearly Double as Stolen Documents Hit the Dark Web

  Greenberg Traurig said documents were posted to the dark web, while BakerHostetler recorded a near-doubling of law-firm incidents in 2025.

  DecryptSecurity

• 1mo ago

  Blockstream Refuses Ransom for Return of $47M in Bitcoin from Liquid Hack: 'It Is Theft'

  With 598.5 BTC still outstanding, the company says it will go to law enforcement should the funds not be returned.

  DecryptBitcoinSecurity

• 1mo ago

  Anthropic Discloses Fourth Claude Hacking Incident as Debate Around Regulation Grows

  The company now says attacks during security tests exposed model behavior failures, after initially emphasizing errors in its testing infrastructure.

  DecryptRegulationSecurity

• 1mo ago

  Bitcoin Wallet Maker Trezor Says Hackers Breached Its Email Provider

  The hardware wallet maker said a fake security alert claimed a hardware flaw could expose users’ recovery phrases.

  DecryptBitcoinSecurity

• 1mo ago

  Secret Service Freezes $52.8 Million in Crypto Tied to Telegram Bazaar Behind Global Scams

  Blockchain sleuths at Elliptic traced the money, Treasury sanctioned the marketplace, and Xinbi—which ran $24 billion through a Telegram scam bazaar—called the freeze unfair.

  DecryptRegulationSecurity