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As cryptocurrency adoption grows, security news remains critical in addressing risks such as hacking, fraud, and smart contract vulnerabilities. From exchange breaches to wallet exploits, cybersecurity in the crypto space is constantly evolving. New security protocols and decentralized solutions aim to enhance protection for investors and blockchain networks alike.
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Binance warns users as phishing texts increase
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BNB Chain activates Pasteur hard fork on mainnet
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A range-proof cache bug in the Elements codebase let an unknown actor mint unbacked L-BTC, drain 95% of the federation reserve through SideSwap, then negotiate its return on-chain via OP_RETURN messages. The network remains frozen, 598.5 BTC sits in the…
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OpenReserve received preliminary OCC approval for an insured national bank but must raise $210 million and meet preopening requirements.
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Compromised keys, not broken code, now drive the majority of crypto theft, and North Korea is cashing the checks. Eight months into the year, and the crypto industry has already replayed the same failure mode enough times to fill a…
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Pocket Bitcoin said its August breach exposed records involving 5,411 customers, including addresses, bank transfers and some identity documents.
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Binance warned users about rising phishing texts and shared three account protections, including link verification and withdrawal whitelists.
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Ledger rejected OneKey’s hack claim after researchers reproduced a patched flaw that could display one transaction while signing another.
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BNB Chain activated Pasteur on BSC, strengthening bridge and validator security while introducing a fuller block-building route.
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Cosmos Labs urged EVM chains to halt as incidents hit MANTRA, TAC and KiiChain, with a detailed Cosmos report still pending.
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Banks and regulators have joined a cross regional pilot testing quantum resistant wallets and digital asset transfers on a specialized NEAR testnet.
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Term Labs is investigating a governance exploit affecting its vaults after security firms estimated losses of approximately $8.5 million.
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Besu discloses five CertiK-found flaws after patching them in version 26.7.1, released July 27. Besu published detailed advisories on August 14 covering five Besu security vulnerabilities found by CertiK and fixed in version 26.7.1, released on July 27. The issues…
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MANTRA Chain halted validators and transactions during an incident investigation, freezing asset transfers with no restart timeline announced.
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Wyoming moved its state-issued FRNT stablecoin from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP after reviewing security and disclosure practices.
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Three hardware wallet and broker breaches in a single week exposed 253,487 customers. The common thread is not the companies themselves but the third party vendors they trusted with physical addresses, and a single Metabase zero day that connected two of the three incidents.
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Payward joined Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and plans to use Claude Mythos 5 to scan its environments for software vulnerabilities.
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A $550,000 community audit contest uncovered two critical vulnerabilities in XRP Ledger features that could have drained user accounts without private keys. The findings reveal how Ripple’s audit-before-release model diverges sharply from the broader crypto industry’s patch-after-exploit norm. XRP Ledger…
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