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.

• 2h ago

  Hackers Are Running Apple's iOS on Android Phones for the First Time

  Hobbyists are booting iOS 16 on Xiaomi and Nothing phones and posting the proof. It barely works, but it suggests Apple's software is no longer welded to Apple's hardware.

  DecryptSecurity

• 3h ago

  Mastercard Brings Its Fraud-Fighting Tools to Stablecoin Payments

  Unveiled at Money20/20, the API-based tool combines payment and blockchain intelligence to flag fraud, scams and sanctions exposure before funds move on-chain.

  DecryptSecurityDeFi

• 1d ago

  Bitcoin ETFs Shed Nearly $1 Billion in Two Weeks as Uptober Stays Red

  Bitcoin ETFs lost a net $228.6 million this week, following a $681.1 million drain the week before and pushing October deep into the red.

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• 3d ago

  Hackers Jailbreak iPhone 18 Pro on Stage, and It Survives a Reboot

  Calif showed an untethered jailbreak on an iPhone 18 Pro running iOS 27.0.1 at Hexacon in Paris. It survived a reboot, but no tool or bug details are public yet.

  DecryptSecurity

• 3d ago

  Three Canadian Armed Forces Members Charged in Kidnapping of Crypto Exchange Owner

  Police seized guns, silencers and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition, nearly all of it allegedly stolen from the Canadian military.

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• 3d ago

  Scammer Lost $4.8M in Bitcoin to Tampered Ledger Wallets: Chainalysis

  The funds came from a task scam that paid people to fake product sales and reviews, then demanded deposits before releasing their pay.

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• 4d ago

  Brooklyn Prosecutors Take Down 112 Servers Behind Crypto Scam Targeting Russian Speakers

  The scammers also ran a fake recovery service, contacting victims weeks later with promises to get their stolen crypto back.

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• 5d ago

  Godfather of AI and 400 Scientists Want AI Models Cut Off From the Internet

  After a summer of AI models escaping test environments and hacking real companies, hundreds of researchers say the internet itself should be treated as a security boundary.

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• 5d ago

  Ledger Asks Resellers in Seven Asian Markets to Pull Devices After Suspected $86M Drain

  European electronics chain MediaMarkt Saturn has also halted Ledger sales after a customer in Germany reported finding an implant.

  DecryptMarketsSecurity

• 6d ago

  Ledger Finds LTE Implant That Stole Recovery Phrases in Suspected $86M Drain

  Ledger says the hidden chip reads the 24-word phrase off the screen during setup, leaving the Secure Element and its software untouched.

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• 7d ago

  Ledger Says All Confirmed Cases in Suspected $87M Drain Tied to Reseller CryptoBilis

  The wallet manufacturer said its own systems and direct sales are unaffected, and that the reseller has stopped selling hardware wallets.

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• 7d ago

  UK Freezes $12M London Penthouse of Alleged Prince Group Finance Chief

  Thet Li is accused of running the finances of a scam empire tied to $14 billion in Bitcoin the U.S. has moved to seize.

  DecryptBitcoinSecurity

• 10d ago

  SIM-Swap Fraudster Who Spent Stolen Crypto on Gold Grills and Dubai Trips Jailed

  Ajay Shinjin helped steal nearly $265,000 in crypto after criminals hijacked BT customers' phone numbers in November 2021.

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• 11d ago

  US Government Moves $1 Billion in Bitcoin Seized From Bitfinex Hacker

  A government wallet holding Bitcoin seized from the Bitfinex hacker sent 12,267 BTC to a new, unlabeled address, according to Arkham data.

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• 11d ago

  Uranium Finance Hacker Who Bought Pokémon and Magic Cards Convicted Over $50M Theft

  Jonathan Spalletta also spent stolen crypto on a Roman coin marking Julius Caesar's assassination and moon-flown Wright brothers fabric.

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• 12d ago

  Hackers Used AI Agents to Raid a Megachurch's Database, Exposing 850,000 Members

  Seoul's Yoido Full Gospel Church says data on 850,000 members may be compromised, and a security firm found signs AI helped run the attack.

  DecryptSecurity

• 12d ago

  Europol Warns Crypto Wallets Are 'Primary Risk' for Quantum Attacks

  The EU police agency expects blockchains to adapt to the threat, while a second report weighs the risk of data stolen now and cracked later.

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• 13d ago

  Flash Loan Attacks Drained $1.2B From DeFi Between 2020 and 2024: Study

  Attacks grew more sophisticated and less predictable over the period, according to researchers who scanned more than 20 billion transactions.

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• 15d ago

  'We Have Identified You, Sir': Near Intents Recovers $3.8 Million After 48-Hour Ultimatum

  Near Intents said the roughly $3.8 million drained in an exploit on Thursday was returned in full, a day after the team said it had identified the attacker and gave them 48 hours to return the funds.

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• 16d ago

  Chainalysis Used AI to Trace the $387M Bitget Hack Back to North Korea

  The firm says the Sept. 24 breach pushed North Korea's 2026 crypto haul past $1 billion, and detailed how it used in-house AI to trace the stolen funds across four blockchains in a race against the attackers.

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• 17d ago

  California Subpoenas OpenAI Over AI Models That Hacked Their Way Out of a Test

  California's attorney general wants answers from OpenAI about AI models that escaped a locked test environment and hacked Hugging Face—and whether the company can be held legally accountable.

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• 17d ago

  Morning Minute: NEAR Intents Hacked for $3.8M - Was It A Bullish Hack?

  Hacks are never good, but a rapid response, user compensation and 1-hour bug fixing seems to top the spectrum of team reactions.

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• 18d ago

  Near Intents Hacked for $3.8M Days After Denying North Korea-Linked Bitget Hacker

  Near Intents froze its cross-chain swaps after a bug let an attacker drain about $3.8 million. The company promised to repay every user.

  DecryptSecurity

• 19d ago

  FBI Tells Its Employees to Assume Hackers Have Their Personal Data

  An internal memo warned FBI staff that ShinyHunters, the group claiming it hacked the bureau's jobs site, may hold their private details.

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• 19d ago

  Bitget Hacker Turns to Zcash Privacy Pool After Near Rejects $50M in Swaps

  The attacker behind the $387.5 million Bitget heist has started hiding about $3.8 million in ZEC inside Zcash's Ironwood pool, after Near Intents turned their swaps away.

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• 21d ago

  After AI Agent Hacked Its Government, Australia Calls Altman and Amodei to Testify

  Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has invited the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to a Canberra hearing on October 1, after an OpenAI agent quietly accessed Australia's Medicare data and nobody said a word for months.

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• 21d ago

  Nvidia Built a Kill Switch for AI Agents Because They Keep Getting Out

  OpenShell and Sentry give AI agents a hardware-enforced leash, arriving after a summer of agents breaching a government site, hacking their own tests, and going rogue during a security evaluation.

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• 21d ago

  Months After the $292M Kelp Hack, Chainlink Lets Institutions Add Their Own Bridge Checks

  Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 lets banks run their own security checks on cross-chain transfers, five months after a rival's setup lost $292 million to hackers.

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• 22d ago

  AI Agents Keep Escaping Their Creators' Control—Here's What We Know

  An OpenAI agent's breach of an Australian government website is the starkest example yet of a pattern building for months—and of how hard autonomous AI is to contain.

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• 24d ago

  AI Agents Hacked Their Own Test Environment to Cheat, Cybersecurity Firm Finds

  Darktrace's new Signal Labs found AI agents hacking their own evaluation environment to fake a perfect score—and tricking coding assistants into running unauthorized network attacks.

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