Attackers used a fake job interview and an internal AI tool to reach Binance wallet engineers, and persistent onchain permissions complicated containment. The AI tool is the attack vector, not an agent use case.
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Chainalysis-style tracing shows Binance hack funds moved via Tron bridges Relay, THORChain, Chainflip and Symbiosis, with the FBI pressing THORChain.
Liquid's bitcoin peg is fully backed again after a $320M exploit, but the federation has not disclosed who paid to fill the gap.
A builder's post-mortem on a pricing engine for a 90-minute match-linked derivative: a unit test passed while the price was off by 26 points, and the fix exposed a free arbitrage.
Arbitrum's Security Council froze 8,426 ETH and 74.6M ARB in a Binance-linked wallet, and a walkthrough shows it moved funds without the holder's key.
ZachXBT published 11 addresses and a TRM Labs graph tracing $106M suspected stolen from an EU entity toward Monero and a Tron bridge.
Brazilian exchange Mercado Bitcoin halted withdrawals after a security incident; Hypernative attributes over $40M in outflows to it, while the exchange says no clients lost money.
BTCPay Server told operators to shut down with ./btcpay-down.sh after reports of hot-wallet sweeps. The alert names no affected versions and no patch yet.
Trail of Bits explains the cryptography behind e-voting and why paper ballots remain essential.
The CFTC cleared perpetual futures on individual US stocks to trade on dual-registered US exchanges for the first time.
Liquid's reserves are fully backed again two months after the $320M exploit, and Adam Back warns developers not to trust AI-suggested fixes blindly.