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New York Asks Court for a $1.37 Billion Judgment Against NovaTech’s Founders
New York seeks a $1.37B judgment against NovaTech's founders, but promoters have agreed to pay only about $6M and recovery from the Petions is unclear.
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CoinDCX Absorbs Losses, Credits Users After Failed Sweep of Hacked Deposit Addresses
CoinDCX absorbed losses and credited users after a sweep of deposits on addresses deprecated after its July 2025 hack failed.
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NY Seeks $1.37 Billion Judgment Against Operators of NovaTech Crypto Ponzi Scheme
New York's attorney general is asking a court for a $1.37 billion judgment against the NovaTech operators, plus interest, over a $1.1 billion fraud.
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Crypto's Two Answers to AI Bug Hunters
Analysis of how crypto projects split between agility and minimalism as AI makes bug finding cheap.
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Initia halts blockchain after exploit reportedly drains over $2.6M
Initia halted its L1 and rollups after an exploit reportedly minted tokens and drained over $2.6M.
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Tether Blacklists USDT Wallets Linked to CoinDCX Outflows
Tether froze about $2.2M in USDT tied to CoinDCX outflows from a failed process for securing deposits to retired addresses.
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Ethereum Devs Postpone Glamsterdam on Hoodi Over Contract Security Risks
Ethereum devs postponed Glamsterdam's Hoodi fork after research showed two gas changes could alter deployed contract behavior.
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Agora Freezes AUSD Account Linked to Initia Exploit
Agora froze an AUSD account tied to the Initia exploit after 1.4 million AUSD was swapped for ETH.
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Bitcoin Core Ends Long Embargoes for Bugs AI Can Rediscover
Bitcoin Core will fast-track fixes for bugs AI can easily rediscover, dropping long embargoes for those issues.
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Crypto Scammers Who Used Prayer Groups to Lure Victims Must Pay $1.3 Billion, Says New York
New York seeks about $1.37 billion from NovaTech's fled founders and settled with four promoters for nearly $6 million.
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Pump Fun’s Kimchi partnership has turned into chaos
A Kimchi token launch with Pump.fun left users suspicious of a hack and the partnership in disarray.
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Initia Halts L1 and Rollups After Reported Mint Exploit
Initia halted its L1 and rollups after an exploit estimated at $2.6 million was cashed out via stablecoin swaps and ETH transfers.
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Bitcoin Core Rewrites Security Policy as LLMs Make Some Bugs Easy to Rediscover
Bitcoin Core will ship fixes faster for bugs a simple LLM prompt could find, changing its severity-based disclosure timeline.
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Succinct Patches SP1 Bug That Could Let Invalid Proofs Pass
Succinct patched an SP1 bug that could let invalid proofs pass in native Rust verification for versions 6.0.0 to 6.8.0.
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Interpol Recovers $105M in African Cybercrime Sweep That Shut Illegal Crypto Mines
Interpol's Operation Serengeti III led to 1,462 arrests in 21 countries and recovered $105M, with 2,000+ mining devices seized in Angola.
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Bitcoin Core changes security rules as AI makes finding code bugs dangerously easy
Bitcoin Core merged a policy ending the embargo for bugs an AI could rediscover, after AI found hundreds of Bitcoin bugs.
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Ethereum Delays Glamsterdam Testnet Fork Over Gas Security Flaws
Ethereum delays the Hoodi testnet fork for Glamsterdam after ChainSecurity found gas changes that could lock in contract failures, citing 13 real-world cases.
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Was crypto self-custody ever designed for beginners?
Asks whether self-custody suits beginners after recent hardware wallet incidents, weighing multisig and seedless designs' tradeoffs.
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Socket Finds 16 Fake Rabby and OKX Wallet Extensions on Firefox
Socket found 16 fake Rabby and OKX wallet extensions on Firefox; removing them does not protect wallets whose recovery phrases were exposed.
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Cysic dangles a 10% bounty, hacker pours loot into Tornado Cash
An attacker exploited Cysic's bridge to mint 10 million tokens on BNB Chain and moved $744,000 to Tornado Cash despite a 10% bounty offer.
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India's largest exchange denies hack after sleuths pointed to $16 million in suspicious outflows
CoinDCX denies a hack after sleuths flagged $16M in outflows from exchange-linked addresses; the story is still unresolved.
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CoinDCX Acknowledges Wallet-Sweeping Losses After Denying New Breach
CoinDCX admits wallet-sweeping losses after earlier denying a new breach, without disclosing the amount lost.
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Swell Pauses swETH and rswETH Deposits and Withdrawals
Swell pauses swETH and rswETH deposits and withdrawals while it corrects NAV, with onchain controls now blocking withdrawals and claims.
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Ethereum delays Glamsterdam Hoodi testnet launch over security risks
Ethereum delays the Glamsterdam Hoodi testnet over security risks, with ChainSecurity identifying 13 real contracts that gas changes could affect.
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Ethereum delays Glamsterdam test after security devs flag risk to existing contracts
Ethereum developers canceled the Hoodi activation of the Glamsterdam upgrade after researchers showed new gas rules could permanently record failed smart contract operations.
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Bitcoin Core changes security policy as AI makes bugs easier to find
Bitcoin Core is changing its security disclosure policy because AI-assisted bug hunting makes keeping vulnerabilities secret less protective.
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UAE-Led Scam Crackdown Identifies Over $39 Billion in Funds and Crypto
A UAE-led operation reports 960+ arrests and $39B in identified scam funds and crypto, with asset recovery planned.
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CoinDCX Denies $16 Million Hack, Tracing Flagged Wallets to Its 2025 Breach
CoinDCX denies a $16M hack while tracing flagged wallets back to its 2025 breach, a dispute worth following for exchange security.
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Pentagon bans US forces from using military info to bet in prediction markets
The Pentagon has barred US forces from using military information to bet on prediction markets, citing adversary exposure risk.
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Bitcoin and Ethereum Take Different Paths to Post-Quantum Wallets
Explains why Ethereum can verify alternative signatures today while Bitcoin's P2MR proposal does not itself add post-quantum signatures.