Crypto
After decades and billions in losses Ethereum finally fixes the “blind signing” flaw
The ethereum (ETH) ecosystem is finally starting to fix the so-called blind signing UX issue that allowed criminals to steal billions in ethereum-compatible crypto assets over the past decade – all because people were putting signatures under transactions they couldn’t read.
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LayerZero blames victims for $292 million hack, but apologizes as clients leave
After being called out for weeks and seeing major clients switch to competing platforms, the LayerZero team has issued an "overdue apology," taking responsibility for a mistake that helped enable the biggest crypto hack this year.
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A hidden flaw in Bitcoin Core could have crashed nodes for years: here’s the outcome
Developers of the most popular bitcoin software implementation, Bitcoin Core, have revealed a now-fixed high-severity bug that could have affected the most critical part of the network – nodes.
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Quantum threat to bitcoin grows: plans emerge for first response to protect billions
Bitcoin (BTC) researchers and developers have increasingly started to articulate another option to protect bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, and other early bitcoin users' funds from quantum computers.
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North Korea monopolizes crypto crime market
The share of North Korea-linked crypto theft has jumped from 7% to 76% over the past 6 years.
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Bitcoin quantum threat contest backfires: Google pros ask organizers to “save what credibility they have left”
One of the top voices in bitcoin (BTC) post-quantum cryptography, Project Eleven, found itself in hot water after its hyped contest turned out to be a nothing burger.
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Trump hosts dinner for top memecoin holders as $TRUMP token slumps
Donald Trump hosted top memecoin holders at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday, where they got a chance for an in-person meeting with him, despite the coin’s underwhelming performance.
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Crypto billionaire sues Trump's firm over frozen $320M, Eric Trump responds with banana joke
Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun on Tuesday sued World Liberty Financial, the digital currency venture co-founded by US President Donald Trump and his sons, alleging that World Liberty illegally froze his holdings of tokens issued by the company.
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Scammers pose as Iranian officials, demand bitcoin from ships in Strait of Hormuz
Crypto criminals have once again found a weak spot to exploit, tricking people into giving away their crypto assets. This time, they’re exploiting the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the key passage for oil and liquefied natural gas shipments from the Middle East.
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“Make Aliens Great Again” - Solana meme coin surges 350% on Trump UFO hype
A cryptocurrency meme coin named MAGA (Make Aliens Great Again) has surged over 300% in the last 24 hours, and over 1718% since it entered the market on April 18th.
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Crypto firms trade blame after biggest heist of 2026, $71M frozen
While security experts are working to trace and stop the criminals behind the biggest crypto hack of 2026 and have already frozen millions in stolen funds, the two involved parties, Kelp DAO and LayerZero, have started the blame game.
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Crypto industry rocked by $290M Kelp DAO exploit, North Korea's Lazarus Group suspected
A $290 million theft from Kelp DAO on Saturday has left the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry in panic.
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$300M stolen in cross-chain bridge hack, largest DeFi exploit of 2026
Hackers exploited a cross-chain bridge used by Kelp DAO and built using LayerZero on Saturday, draining 116,500 rsETH or about $292 million in the largest DeFi hack of 2026 to date.
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Sanctioned Russian crypto exchange accuses Western intelligence of hack
One of the top Russian crypto exchanges, Grinex, said that Western intelligence services stole almost $14 million worth of crypto assets from “Russian users” in an attempt to inflict “direct damage on Russia’s financial sovereignty.”
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North Korea accused of attacking crypto wallet, while novel threat campaign targets Obsidian app
While old threat vectors are being exploited in the crypto industry, making a popular wallet the latest victim, a novel campaign abusing a popular note-taking application has been found.
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$4B OneCoin scam victims might get 1% of their losses back
The more than a decade-old story of one of the biggest scams in history, OneCoin, is getting another chapter, with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) beginning to compensate victims. But don't get too excited – compensations comprise only 1% of the total losses.
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Hackers stole $450K from American rock singer after malicious app slipped through Apple’s rigorous security checks
The lead singer of an American “sloppy” rock band just had his retirement fund wiped out after downloading a malicious ledger from Apple’s App Store.
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Kraken crypto exchange resists extortion attempts
Criminals keep failing to extort major cryptoasset companies, with the latest example coming from the Kraken exchange.
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Global crypto scam crackdown freezes $12M and exposes 20,000 victims
During an international operation, the National Crime Agency (NCA), the US Secret Service, the Ontario Provincial Police, and the Ontario Securities Commission identified thousands of victims of “approval phishing.”
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US Treasury takes crypto under its cybersec wing amid Mythos AI threat
The US Government has extended its cybersecurity information-sharing initiative to firms in the crypto industry at a time when Anthropic's Mythos AI model is becoming a serious cybersecurity threat.
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