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- 25d ago
AI Threat: Web3 Told to Add Spending Caps and Circuit Breakers Onchain
European Union regulators warned that quantum computing threats could emerge earlier than commercial applications, urging financial entities to move away from legacy cryptography. An expert says protocols must replace vulnerable elliptic-curve proofs with hash-based STARKs and upgrade key wrapping immediately to protect sensitive long-term data. EU Regulators Issue Post-Quantum Cryptography…
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- 26d ago
Bitcoin Price Plunges Below $84K as Rally Snaps
Bitcoin’s rally abruptly ended as its price dropped below $84,000, reaching an intraday low of $83,508 shortly after failing to hold above $87,000. Rejection at Key Resistance Bitcoin’s latest rally snapped Wednesday as the cryptocurrency dipped below $84,000 for the first time since Monday. The reversal came just hours after it breached $87,000 for the […]
- 26d ago
Liquid Hack Leaves Bull Bitcoin Users Facing 30-Day Wait to Reclaim BTC
Earlier this week, the Canadian bitcoin exchange and wallet company Bull Bitcoin explained that customers currently cannot convert their L-BTC back to BTC using the platform. The news traces back to the Liquid Network hack that occurred on Sept. 6, which saw 4,000 BTC siphoned from the protocol. While most of it was returned, the […]
- 27d ago
White Hats Beat Coldcard Attackers, Rescuing Millions of Dollars in Bitcoin
A group of white hats appears to have pulled off something victims of the Coldcard exploit desperately needed, securing 52.37 BTC before malicious attackers could steal it. Galaxy Digital’s Head of Firmwide Research, Alex Thorn, says the bitcoin, representing 2.8% of the exploited funds, has now been consolidated into an address controlled by Crypto Recovery […]
- 27d ago
Report: Polymarket Ignored Warnings During $10M Fraud Attack
Bad actors targeted Polymarket’s U.S. platform in a $10 million fraud scheme using stolen debit cards, pushing payment processor Checkout.com to reject over 80% of deposits as fraudulent. High Rejection Rates Trigger Payment Processor Crackdown Prediction-market startup Polymarket faces accusations of prioritizing user expansion and aggressive growth over compliance safeguards when bad actors…
- 27d ago
BNB Crosses $800 While DOGE and XRP Log Double-Digit Gains
Bitcoin’s price breached $87,000 for the first time since late January, triggering a broader altcoin surge. Ether gained 6% to reach $2,770, renewing optimism around long-term targets despite remaining more than 40% below its all-time high. Bitcoin Rally Triggers Market-Wide Altcoin Gains Several high-cap altcoins surged Monday amid a market-wide cryptocurrency rally that saw bitcoin […]
- 28d ago
Slowmist Warns Darksword iOS Exploit Targets Crypto Wallet Keys
23pds, Chief Information Security Officer at Slowmist, reported the evolution of this exploit, which, due to the combination of several techniques, allows threat actors to steal wallet private keys and other data. Users must update their phones to the latest software version to avoid being targeted. iPhone Face One Click Full Wallet Control Hack Exploit […]
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- 28d ago
Kasplex KRC-20 Indexer Signature Bypass Drains Two Token Pools
This weekend, an attacker pulled 186.4 million ZEAL and 54.4 billion NACHO from a Kaspa KRC-20 bridge wallet without possessing its private key, then recycled the tokens through layer two (L2) networks and sold them into liquidity pools. The strange part is that Kaspa itself wasn’t hacked. Five valid transactions fooled an off-chain indexer into […]
- 28d ago
Massive French Data Leaks Spark Surge in Fake Crypto Support Calls
Owen Simonin, known as Hasheur, reported a rise in the number of fraudulent call scams in which threat actors impersonate customer service representatives of a crypto platform. Simonin stressed that this rise was caused by the recent data leaks affecting French crypto users. Crypto Call Scams Rise in France, Says Crypto Entrepreneur The recent data […]
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- 29d ago
CLARITY Fails, Kraken Prepares for On-Chain Perps, And More – Weekly Recap
This week’s stories centered on regulation, institutional adoption and market infrastructure. Seven Democratic senators vowed to keep negotiating on the CLARITY Act, while Tom Lee forecast a bullish 12 months for crypto. Revolut attackers demanded 6,000 XMR for stolen customer data, Kalshi captured about 80% of U.S. prediction-market volume, and Kraken parent Payward unveiled plans […]
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- 29d ago
One Attacker Hits Two Crypto Projects and Walks With $2 Million
One attacker appears to have cracked two separate crypto projects in the same minute, draining 8.72 million FET from a Fetch.ai converter while minting roughly 408.5 million NTX at Nunet. The combined damage landed around $2.01 million, but the strangest number was buried inside the NTX attack. The newly created coins represented roughly 42% of […]
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- 29d ago
Scammers Use Fake USDT Tokens to Steal From Venezuelan Merchants
Reports indicate that scammers are taking advantage of the high level of adoption of USDT in Venezuela to send fake USDT tokens as payment. Scammers use fake USDT tokens with zero value to target merchants using self-custody wallets. Fake USDT Tokens Surge for Payments in Venezuela Threat actors are leveraging the high level of adoption […]
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- 29d ago
Fake IT Job Interviews Help North Korea Steal Millions in Crypto
A North Korean state-backed hacker group infected over 30,000 computers across 100 countries with malware that stole millions of dollars in crypto between late 2025 and July 2026. Fake Job Interviews Used as Bait A North Korean cyberattack campaign disguised as legitimate tech recruitment has infected more than 30,000 computers across at least 100 countries, […]
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- 1mo ago
Blink Wallet Hit by Attacker, ‘Few Dozen’ Custodial Accounts Drained
On Saturday, the Lightning Network payments platform Blink Wallet, which provides both custodial and non-custodial services, revealed that an attacker had infiltrated a limited number of custodial accounts and moved the funds. Blink Wallet Says Every Affected Custodial Account Will Be Made Whole Lightning Network applications and platforms cannot get a break these days, and […]
- 1mo ago
White Hats Used Anthropic’s Claude to Break Into OpenAI in 72 Hours
A small team of researchers chained three bugs with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 and ended up inside OpenAI’s private code repository. The whole job took under 72 hours, and OpenAI paid $6,500 for it. The Chain, Link by Link A vulnerable ‘libheif’ library inside Discourse, the forum software, allowed remote code execution (RCE) on the […]
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- 1mo ago
Revolut Denies Hacker Contact Over Reported $3M Ransom Claim
Revolut said it has received no direct ransom demands following a recent data breach. Certik analyst Jonathan Riss warned that mandatory know your customer (KYC) rules force platforms to store sensitive identity data, making them high-value targets for hackers. No Direct Demands Received, Revolut Says Revolut said it has not received direct contact from or […]
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- 1mo ago
L-BTC Peg-Out Still Shut Down as Blockstream Refuses Hacker Demand
It’s been 11 days since the so-called white hat hackers siphoned nearly 4,000 BTC from the Liquid Network. Since then, after the return of 3,400 BTC and a whole lot of onchain bickering, L-BTC to BTC peg-outs are still not functional on Liquid, and the hackers still hold 598.50 BTC valued at more than $45 […]
- 1mo ago
Zcash Nears $1,400 as Privacy Coins Rally
Zcash surged nearly 15% in 24 hours to hit a high of $1,388, pushing its market capitalization to $23.21 billion and extending its lead over monero by more than $10 billion. Privacy Coin Surge and Market Decoupling Zcash (ZEC) price nearly breached $1,400 Thursday amid a privacy coin rally that saw several coins post double-digit […]
- 1mo ago
The Attackers Who Deceived Revolut Now Demand 6,000 XMR
The attackers claiming to be behind the Revolut breach have dropped the earlier bitcoin demand and are now asking for 6,000 XMR, roughly $3 million, to keep 680 customer files off the market. According to the hackers speaking exclusively with the Financial Times (FT), Revolut didn’t lose customer data because hackers cracked its servers. The […]
- 1mo ago
LAPTOP Enters Memecoin Frenzy, $245 Million Crypto Heist Sees Guilty Pleas, And More – Weekly Recap
This week’s stories highlighted crypto’s widening reach — and its risks. Pump.fun paired memecoins with tokenized stocks, while Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP token collapsed 98% after launch. Liquid began recovering from a 4,000 BTC exploit, a cybercrime network admitted stealing more than $245 million in crypto, and reports said Iran is increasingly using bitcoin and USDT […]
- 1mo ago
Another Bitcoin Bridge Broke, and This Time Billions Were Minted
Over the past week, the crypto community has been hearing about bizarre hacks involving bitcoin-backed tokens, and following the troubles tied to the Liquid Network’s L-BTC and Nomic’s nBTC, Symbiosis’s bitcoin bridge was exploited. Reports say that a hacker minted billions of unbacked syBTC across a set of transactions and managed to cash out around […]
- 1mo ago
Feds Have Now Frozen $938M in Scam Crypto After Telegram Market Bust
Federal authorities restrained about $52 million in scam-linked cryptocurrency in a single day during a crackdown on Xinbi Guarantee, lifting the Justice Department strike force’s running total to roughly $938 million. Treasury says the marketplace processed more than $24 billion and was reportedly used by North Korean hackers. Crypto Scam Crackdown Nears $1 Billion About […]
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- 1mo ago
Revolut Leaks Customer Data to Hackers Posing as State Agency
The institution shared personally identifiable information from an unknown number of users after receiving a request from an unauthorized government email account. The shared documents include identity details, ID and verification information, and financial statements, putting affected users at risk. Revolut Leaks Customer Information To Unidentified Threat Actors Revolut, a UK-based neobank,…
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- 1mo ago
ETH Price Surges Past $2,600 as CPI Data Triggers Squeeze
Ethereum surged over 6.5% in less than an hour Friday to hit a multi-month high of $2,663 following a favorable U.S. consumer price index report. CPI Catalyst On Friday, Sept. 11, ether (ETH) breached $2,600 for the first time since early February, reviving hopes that the number two cryptocurrency could end the year in the […]
- 1mo ago
‘Return the Bitcoin’: Blockstream Draws Line After 4,000 BTC Hack
A group that drained nearly 4,000 BTC from Blockstream’s Liquid Network returned 3,400 BTC, kept about 598.5 BTC, demanded a 10% bounty, and warned L-BTC holders could face a 15% loss. Now Blockstream has answered with an unusually direct ultimatum: It will not pay. The company says taking the bitcoin was theft, not white-hat security […]
- 1mo ago
Bitcoin Red Team Claims Blockstream Ignored Warnings Before Hack
The security team, which has already uncovered thousands of vulnerabilities, hinted at a previous disclosure of the bug that allowed a white-hat hacker to take control of nearly 4,000 BTC. Calle, who leads the team, stressed that Blockstream ignored their emails before the incident. Bitcoin Red Team Allegedly Reported Liquid Bug Before 4,000 BTC Incident […]
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