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Breaches, exploits, surveillance and the privacy trade-offs buried in the software you already use.
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Bitget hacker moves $83 million in stolen XRP Ripple can’t freeze
Circle and Tether could hit a switch and freeze stolen stablecoins. Ripple can’t do the same for XRP. Right now, that gap is costing Bitget about $75 million.…
OpenSea flags over 3,000 NFTs stolen in Magic Eden, Limit Break approval exploit
In Brief: OpenSea has marked more than 3,000 items as stolen and blocked them from trading after an exploit of Limit Break‘s Payment Processor V2 contract, which Magic…
Payy Says a Compromised Key Didn’t Cause Its $1.92 Million Drain of User Deposits
Two transactions, five hours apart, both sent to the same address. That’s all it took to empty Payy’s Ethereum bridge of about $1.92 million in USDC. The company…
Cosmos Hub Voters Are Vetoing a Plan to Refund the Neutron Attacker 1.2M ATOM
About 95% of the ATOM cast so far says no, and says it in the harshest way Cosmos governance allows. By 2:34 p.m. ET on Friday, No with…
Binance Warns Users About the ‘Address Poisoning’ Crypto Scam
The scammer never touches your private keys. They don’t crack your wallet or phish your seed phrase. They just wait for you to copy the wrong address, and…
Payment Processor exploit drains 660 WETH as whitehats pull 23,155 NFTs from old Magic Eden approvals
In Brief: An attacker used a bug in Limit Break’s Payment Processor V2 to take NFTs and WETH from wallets that still had old approvals from Magic Eden’s…
Whitehat transfers 3,832 NFTs following exploit in Limit Break processor used by Magic Eden
In Brief: A whitehat operator moved 3,832 NFTs after an exploit was found in Limit Break’s Payment Processor V2 used by Magic Eden. The tokens are now in…
OpenAI May Unveil Its GPT-6 Cyber Security Model Within Days
OpenAI is about to sell AI as the fix for the security problem AI helped create. The company will preview GPT-6 Cyber, its next cybersecurity-focused model, as soon…
Bitget’s $352 million hack used spoofed transfers, not stolen private keys, CEO Gracy Chen says
Bitget lost $351.6 million overnight. The exchange’s CEO said the attackers never got the keys to the vault. They got the paperwork office. “The attacker compromised a critical…
