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Implant reported in a Trezor sold by CryptoBilis
Report of a hardware wallet implant in a Trezor sold by a reseller, a supply-chain security warning.
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Chainalysis Says Binance Hacker Swapped $325 Million to Evade Freezes
Chainalysis reports the Binance hacker swapped $325M to evade freezes, with frozen assets around $2.8B and patterns suggesting automated laundering.
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Binance Pegs Hot-Wallet Losses at $6.3 Billion, Vows to Cover Them as TRM Points to North Korea
Binance pegs hot-wallet losses at $6.3B and vows to cover them, blaming a compromised engineer laptop, while TRM and ZachXBT link the funds to North Korea.
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USDT0 Freezes 6.19 Million Tokens Linked to Binance Exploit
USDT0 froze 6.19M tokens linked to the Binance exploit and restored Tron-Ethereum USDT transfers after a precautionary pause.
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The $6.4 Billion Binance Exploit: Tracing the North Korea Link
Chainalysis investigators trace the $6.4B Binance exploit to North Korea in what is likely the largest crypto hack on record.
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Binance Finds 'Additional Points of Breach' in $6.3B Hack
Binance's CEO says the $6.3B hack was not a one-click action and that about $3B has been frozen, with additional points of breach found.
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Unit Delays All Deposits and Withdrawals After Binance Breach
Unit has delayed all deposits and withdrawals after the Binance breach, with guardian screening blocking transfers while about $3B is frozen.
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Trezor Treats One Report of an Implanted CryptoBilis Safe 5 as Credible Before Examining It
Trezor is treating one report of an implanted CryptoBilis Safe 5 as credible; four devices checked so far showed no tampering, and buyers since March should move to a new seed.
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Trezor warns CryptoBilis buyers to move funds over suspected implant
Trezor told CryptoBilis buyers since March to move funds after a report of a hardware implant in a Safe 5, though it has not yet examined the device.
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Trezor reports suspected hardware implant in Safe 5 sold by CryptoBilis
Trezor reports a credible hardware implant report in Safe 5 devices sold by CryptoBilis and urges buyers to migrate funds.
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Teng Says Binance Breach Was Not a ‘One-Click’ Attack
Teng says the Binance breach was not a one-click attack, while withdrawals stay paused and deposits run normally; Binance says about $3 billion in affected assets is frozen onchain.
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FUN Plunges 95% in Uniswap Pool as Binance Exploiter Sells
Onchain activity after the Binance exploit shows the exploiter selling RAD and OGN on Uniswap, with FUN falling 95% in the pool and about 580.8 million unsold FUN moved back to a collection wallet.
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Live updates: Binance $6.3B hack linked to North Korea’s TraderTraitor
Live coverage linking the $6.3B Binance hack to North Korea's TraderTraitor, with about $3B frozen so far.
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Binance hacker dumps a little-known 2017 token and it crashes 90%
Hacker dumped the illiquid 2017 token FUN and other small tokens, crashing their prices 90% after the Binance theft.
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'Elite North Korean hackers' blamed for $6.3B Binance hack
Attribution of the $6.3B Binance hack to North Korean TraderTraitor hackers, the largest theft story of the moment.
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North Korea’s TraderTraitor linked to $6.3B Binance hack
TRM Labs attributes the $6.3B Binance hack to North Korea's TraderTraitor, with ZachXBT tracing linked Binance and Bitget stolen funds to one address.
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Chainalysis Links $6.4 Billion Binance Hack to North Korea
Chainalysis attributes the $6.4B Binance hack to North Korea, with about $3B frozen and withdrawals suspended.
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Binance hacker splits $1.4 billion of bitcoin into 19 wallets that no one can freeze
CoinDesk's onchain trace shows the stolen 18,270 BTC sitting unmoved in 19 wallets, 17 holding exactly 1,000 BTC each.
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Binance Hot Wallet Exploit: Aave's Response - Risk
Onchain detail of the Binance hacker's Aave V3 borrowing and Aave's pause on new deposits and borrows, with frozen-asset implications.
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Binance Exploiter Swaps $911 Million Into ETH and TRX, Arkham Says
The exploiter swapped $911M of stolen USDT into ETH and TRX, moving beyond Tether's freeze; $2.8B already frozen per Arkham.
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MistTrack Links Binance Theft Route to Phemex-Connected Address
MistTrack traces the Binance theft route to a Phemex-connected address, noting onchain links do not establish who carried out the thefts.
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Crypto's longtime foe, North Korea's Lazarus Group, likely behind Binance hack: blockchain sleuths
Blockchain sleuths point to Lazarus Group for the Binance hack, the largest exchange breach on record in this batch.
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Bitcoin slides below $77,000, BNB drops amid Binance hack
Bitcoin fell below $77,000 and BNB dropped 7.1% as Binance's co-CEO pledged to cover all user losses from the hack.
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Bitcoin Core security has been deep reviewed by the top frontier AI models, and only two minor items surfaced.
A security-focused AI vendor ran 16 agents across 5 frontier models for a week auditing Bitcoin Core v32.0rc1 and surfaced two minor issues, both now disclosed.
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LIVE: Binance suspends withdrawals amid massive crypto hack
Binance suspended withdrawals after billions vanished from its wallets in one of the largest exchange hacks.
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Binance hack drained wallets backing customer assets, reserve data shows
Binance's own reserve data lists the drained wallets as backing customer balances, leaving ETH backing about 6% short until replaced.
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Binance hack may involve private key ‘misuse,’ not theft: Blockaid CEO
Blockaid's CEO suspects the Binance hack involved misuse of private keys or signing infrastructure rather than simple theft, echoing Bybit.
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zkLink Nova Goes Offline After Hacker Steals More Than $780,000 From Its Bridge
zkLink halted Nova and disabled withdrawals after an attacker faked withdrawal approvals and drained over $780,000 from its Ethereum bridge.
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Binance hot wallet signed 50 EIP-7702 delegations 3 minutes before the drain
Onchain analysis reports the Binance hot wallet signed 50 EIP-7702 delegations minutes before the drain, a concrete mechanism clue.
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Attacker gets away with up to $3 billion from Binance
About $2.4B of the roughly $5.5B Binance theft was frozen, with the remainder possibly exceeding the insurance fund.