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Binance’s $6.3 Billion Hack Has South Korea Asking Exchanges to Hold More Crypto Offline
South Korea's regulator asked exchanges to add offline storage, reserves and withdrawal monitoring after the Binance hack.
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Justin Drake Targets December 2028 for Ethereum’s Post-Quantum Transition
Justin Drake proposes a fork sequence targeting December 2028 for Ethereum's post-quantum transition, with wallet migration treated as a separate task.
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DPRK Hackers Perfected Their Fake Interview Playbook Over Dozens of Attacks Before Binance
Chainalysis traces Binance's $6 billion hack to a DPRK fake-employment scheme, which the attackers refined over dozens of earlier attacks.
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Crypto survived cybersecurity awareness month… just
Protos recaps October's stream of over 50 crypto hacks and other cybersecurity breaches.
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Audited the MCP servers I had connected in Claude Desktop. Built the auditor with Claude Code
A Claude Desktop user built a free MCP auditor with Claude Code and ran it on his connected servers, finding a false positive on DeepWiki and pushback from Chainflip over no-auth broker tools.
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Liquid’s Bitcoin Reserves Fully Back Its Tokens Again as Board Member Points to Blockstream
Liquid Federation says roughly 600 BTC lost in September's exploit has been restored to its reserves.
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Brazil's Biggest Bitcoin Exchange Says It Will Refund Users After a $40 Million Hack
Mercado Bitcoin says it will refund users after a $40M hack, with withdrawals frozen and no restart date.
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THORChain Refused to Block the $387M Bitget Hacker. Here’s Why | Chad Barraford
Chad Barraford explains why THORChain refused to block the $387M Bitget hacker's addresses, and the Tether freeze episode that followed.
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GitBook Revokes All Personal API Tokens After Breach
GitBook revoked all personal API tokens after a breach it says used AI agents and may have exposed integration credentials.
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South Korea's president says country needs a ‘cybersecurity czar’ following $6.3 billion Binance hack
South Korea's president calls for a cybersecurity czar after the Binance hack.
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Binance says fake job interviews used as part of $6.3B crypto hack
Binance attributes a $6.3B crypto hack to fake job interviews, a notable social engineering vector worth reading in full.
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Binance Says $6.34 Billion Hack Began With Fake Job Interview
Binance's incident report traces the $6.34B October theft to a five-month campaign starting with a fake job interview and a poisoned developer tool.
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Binance traces $6.3B hack to fake job interviews, compromised AI tool
Binance's investigation says the breach used compromised employee machines, stolen credentials and a compromised AI tool.
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Binance Details Four-Month Path From Tainted Developer Install to $6.34 Billion Drain
Binance's initial report details the four-month intrusion path from a tainted developer install to the $6.34B drain via a stolen token and an EIP-7702 trick.
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North Korea used LinkedIn, fake job interviews to trick Binance engineer in $6.3 billion hack
Binance disclosed North Korean hackers used LinkedIn fake interviews and malware to drain $6.3B, the largest crypto heist ever.
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Fake Job Interview Opened Path to $6.34 Billion Hack, Binance Says
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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Binance's $6.3 billion hack began with a fake job interview, exchange says
Binance says its $6.3 billion hack began with a fake job interview and months of employee compromise, then exploited hot-wallet signing via EIP-7702.
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Binance Details Months-Long Campaign Behind $6.34 Billion Hack
Binance's report on the months-long campaign behind the $6.34B hack says 98% of impacted tokens were replenished and explains why pausing withdrawals did not stop every outflow.
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South Korea asks its biggest banks how a major crypto hack would hit them
South Korea's central bank surveyed major banks on how a crypto hack or price crash would affect them.
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CZ warns of more AI-driven hacks following Binance’s historic $6.4 billion heist
CZ warns automated tools are lowering the barrier to complex hacks, though investigators found no evidence AI agents laundered the Binance funds.
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Crypto Recovery Services: What to Check Before Paying
A practical checklist for US consumers before paying a crypto recovery service: verify identity, written deliverables, fees and data access. Recovery scams are a real risk.
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Ethereum Privacy Network Aztec Rolls Out Major Security and Speed Upgrade
Aztec's Tierra upgrade fixes a critical bug from the prior version and adds formal verification and an AI-powered testing harness. Same release as 5326; keep the other one only if needed.
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Ethereum Layer 2 Aztec gets Tierra V6 upgrade to support faster private apps
Aztec's Tierra V6 upgrade fixes earlier security issues and doubles private transaction proof generation speed.
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The cryptography behind e-voting (and why paper ballots are still essential)
Trail of Bits explains the cryptography behind e-voting and why paper ballots remain essential.
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Binance net outflows reach $5.3 billion after record hack. CEO says recovery underway
Binance recorded $5.3 billion in net outflows after the record hack, with nearly $11 billion leaving over 46 hours.
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Kraken Restricts Accounts Amid Suspected $133 Million-Plus EU Theft
Kraken restricted accounts over a suspected $133M+ EU theft, saying its own systems were not compromised.
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Binance Lacks Cyber Insurance for $6.3 Billion Hack, Bloomberg Law Reports
Binance reports no cyber insurance covering its $6.3B hack and is using company and futures reserves to replace stolen assets.
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I paper-tested an AI memecoin trading bot for 2 days. Here's what the safety checks caught, and what they didn't
A developer built a six-agent Solana memecoin desk from a viral prompt and paper-traded it for two days to see what its safety checks caught and missed.
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Liquid Network Restores Full Bitcoin Backing Two Months After $320M Exploit
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.
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Liquid’s bitcoin IOUs are fully backed again after a $320 million exploit
Liquid's bitcoin peg is fully backed again after a $320M exploit, but the federation has not disclosed who paid to fill the gap.