Chainalysis says breach exposed credentials for all customers
Blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis says a recent attack on its systems and internal tools has exposed credentials and live tokens for all customers.
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MetaMask says recent attack didn't affect wallet infrastructure
Cryptocurrency wallet provider MetaMask said a recent security incident has not affected MetaMask wallets or its wallet infrastructure.
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Chainalysis Breach Exposes All Users' Credentials, Forces Shutdown of Key Services
Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has revealed that its ongoing investigation into the agentic cyber attack targeting its systems also exposed names, usernames, password hashes and live tokens for all users. "While we investigated, we removed access to Reactor and Data Solutions," the company sai...
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October crypto-tracker hack: Access cracked, law enforcement tokens packed
Agentic 'on-path attack' went after Chainalysis's tools, which are routinely called upon to assist police investigations
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ThreatsDay: Apache OFBiz RCE, DreamHost Breach, DeFi Site Hijacks + 17 More Stories
How much damage can someone do without breaking much? Quite a lot, it seems. A stolen login can open doors across several systems. A trusted setting can be used to lock people out. Even a simple file copy can reach places it shouldn't. And while new tools are helping find security holes faster, some...
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Officials extradite Canadian man to US for alleged cryptomining spree
Ryan Roach and his alleged co-conspirator, Mathiew Stubbings, are accused of compromising U.S. universities’ computers and taking over processing power to mine for cryptocurrency.
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NIKKE PC game launcher hacked to spread remote access, data-stealing malware
The developers of Goddess of Victory: NIKKE have confirmed that hackers tampered with the game's PC launcher scripts in a supply-chain attack, distributing malware capable of stealing credentials and cryptocurrency wallet data.
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US charges two Canadians accused of hacking US universities
A federal grand jury indicted two Canadians suspected of hacking multiple US universities and using the compromised systems to mine for cryptocurrency.
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Canadian Extradited to US Over Cryptomining Hacks on University Supercomputers
A federal grand jury indicted two Canadian men for hijacking university supercomputers to secretly mine Electroneum cryptocurrency.
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Binance says fake job interview led to $6.3 billion crypto heist
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance says North Korean hackers used a fake job interview to trick an employee into installing malware that ultimately let them compromise the company's wallet infrastructure and steal about $6.34 billion in digital assets.
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Binance Says Hackers Used Well-Known Tricks to Carry Out a $6.34 Billion Heist
Suspected North Korean attackers duped an engineer with a fake job interview and a malicious download to gain a foothold in the crypto firm’s system and steal billions, according to Binance.
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Chainstack Reports Production Systems Breach Exposing Customer Data and Password Hashes
Blockchain infrastructure provider Chainstack on Tuesday disclosed that it was targeted in a cyber attack that allowed an unauthorized party to gain access to some parts of its infrastructure. The incident is assessed to be part of a large-scale, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered attack campaign...
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Binance Reveals How Fake Job Interviews and AI Tool Abuse Led to $6.43 Billion Theft
Binance on Tuesday said the record-setting theft of $6.43 billion in assets from the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange was the culmination of a "sophisticated, multi-stage campaign" that involved the use of a tampered Homebrew installation and recruitment-themed social engineering attack targe...
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Hackers Exploit BTCPay Server Flaw to Steal Bitcoin and Litecoin From Hot Wallets
BTCPay Server, a self-hosted, open-source cryptocurrency payment processor, has urged users to install the latest version of its software in response to reports of Bitcoin and Litecoin being stolen from hot wallets on instances running older versions. "Our investigation found that these attacks tar...
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Attackers Target Unpatched CryptoPayment Gateway Flaw That Can Expose Wallet Credentials
Threat actors are attempting to exploit an unpatched maximum-severity security vulnerability in the CryptoPayment Gateway WordPress plugin, according to findings from Defused Cyber. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-81648, which carries a CVSS score of 10.0. Successful exploitation of the f...
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BTCPay Server warns of hot wallet crypto thefts on outdated instances
The maintainer of BTCPay Server, an open-source cryptocurrency payment processor, has urged users to install the latest version as hackers have been draining "hot wallets" on instances running older versions.
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BTCPay Server warns of hot wallet thefts targeting outdated instances
The maintainer of BTCPay Server, an open-source cryptocurrency payment processor, has urged users to install the latest version as hackers have been draining "hot wallets" on instances running older versions.
AI/MLCryptoFBI pins $6.3B Binance crypto heist on North Korean hackers
Exchange scrambles to replace stolen funds as customers withdraw billions and hackers get busy laundering their haul
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FBI Flags Over 600 Addresses Tied to North Korea’s Binance Heist
The FBI has officially pinned the $6 billion Binance hack on North Korea’s TraderTraitor as the attackers launder the stolen crypto.
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FBI links $6.3 billion Binance crypto heist to North Korean hackers
The FBI has confirmed that North Korean state-sponsored hackers known as TraderTraitor were behind the $6.3 billion crypto-theft attack on Binance, making it the largest cryptocurrency heist on record.
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Hackers Steal About $2.7 Million From Polymarket Traders via Hijacked DebugBear Script
Malicious code on the website of prediction market Polymarket sold some signed-in traders' positions and moved their funds to the hackers on October 29. The code had replaced a page-speed script that the site loaded from an outside company. Polymarket says it is refunding about $2.7 million to 726 ...
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FBI Links North Korea's TraderTraitor to Record $6.43 Billion Binance Crypto Heist
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has officially attributed the theft of more than $6 billion in virtual assets to TraderTraitor, a North Korea-aligned elite hacking group also tracked as Jade Sleet, Pressure Chollima, PUKCHONG, Slow Pisces, and UNC4899. The FBI, along with the U.S. Se...
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Chainalysis discloses data breach from "offensive agentic techniques"
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis disclosed a data breach after attackers used "offensive agentic techniques" to access internal systems and tools, exposing customer names, email addresses, user IDs, and organizational roles.
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Chainalysis Confirms Intrusion Into Internal Tools and Exposure of Customer Identity Data
American blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis said it was the target of a cybersecurity incident in which an external actor accessed non-sensitive customer data. However, the company noted that the breach did not result in unauthorized access to its investigation content, authentication credentials...
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Trezor warns of suspected crypto-theft implant in hardware wallet
Hardware wallet device maker Trezor has received credible reports about a suspected hardware crypto-theft implant in a Trezor Safe 5 sold by its reseller CryptoBilis in Southeast Asia.
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Bulletproof Host Virtualine Loses Its Domain to FBI Seizure
It allowed customers to host hack-for-hire services, supported ransomware and infostealer operators, and accepted crypto payments.
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Trezor Warns of Suspected Hardware Implant in One of Its Wallets Sold by CryptoBilis
A Trezor Safe 5 hardware wallet bought from the reseller CryptoBilis has an extra circuit board that sends out the recovery phrase over a mobile network, a customer has reported. Trezor has not yet examined the device. It is telling everyone who bought a Trezor from CryptoBilis since March 2026 to ...
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The $6.3 Billion Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes
Multiple crypto-tracing firms say notorious North Korean hackers TraderTraitor may be behind the largest digital heist in history—with billions of crypto likely gone for good.
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Binance links $6.3 billion crypto theft to compromised DevOps laptop
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, has linked the theft of about $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency to a DevOps engineer's compromised laptop.
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Blockchain analysts link the record crypto theft to North Korean hackers, as Binance probes a possibly compromised engineer laptop.
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Binance freezes funny money after compromise of engineer’s laptop leads to $6.3 billion of bad trades
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Binance Suffers Security Breach Affecting $6.3 Billion in Assets, Nearly $3 Billion Frozen
Cryptocurrency giant Binance said on Thursday that a "security incident" on its platform has impacted about $6.3 billion worth of assets. The world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange said nearly $3 billion of those assets have been frozen on-chain so far. Tether and Circle said they have frozen mo...
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Binance probes potential $5.8 billion crypto-theft hack
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security breach involving up to $5.8 billion in digital assets, in what could become the largest cryptocurrency hack in history.
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Hugging Face malware campaign returns to hijack GPUs for crypto mining
A crypto-mining campaign abusing Hugging Face models returned days after takedown, hijacking GPU servers and planting backdoors, with one model downloaded over 28,000 times. Separately, a fake Solana starter kit on GitHub is positioned to trick AI coding agents into installing a NetSupport RAT. [......
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Polymarket halts trading after crypto-draining script breach, $2.5M traced
Prediction market platform Polymarket temporarily suspended trading on Thursday after hackers compromised a third-party service to distribute cryptocurrency-draining JavaScript, with approximately $2.5 million in assets traced to a suspected attacker wallet.
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Fake crypto app on Apple App Store linked to $23K wallet theft
A fake cryptocurrency trading app called Padre Terminal, previously available on the Apple App Store for iOS devices, has been linked to the theft of approximately $23,000 from 27 Solana wallets.
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Fake ChatGPT and Claude Apps Abuse Signed Executables to Deploy Crypto Miners
Threat actors are delivering malicious loaders and cryptocurrency miners under the guise of artificial intelligence (AI) desktop applications for Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT as part of a campaign dubbed Yoba. The activity involves creating fake GitHub projects that claim to be desktop appli...
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The Rise of the Threat Operator: How AI Will Redefine Security Operations and Careers
AI is beginning to take over much of the work that has traditionally defined the security analyst's job. Investigating alerts, collecting evidence, correlating activity across tools, and executing response actions are becoming tasks that AI systems can perform on their own. As these capabilities mat...
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Wazuh and AI for Enhanced SOC Workflows
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of this decade's defining technologies. From healthcare and finance to manufacturing and education, organizations increasingly rely on AI to automate repetitive tasks, uncover patterns hidden within large datasets, and support faster decision-making. Cyber...
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FBI Seizes Virtualine Domain Over Alleged Criminal Hosting and Bitcoin Money Laundering
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the seizure of a domain associated with a bulletproof hosting provider (BPH) named Virtualine. The move was in response to the service being used to commit and facilitate prolific criminal activity, including "the advertisement of sexually e...
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Keystone to Destroy 18,835 Hardware Wallets After Hackers Steal Device Verification Key
An attacker who gained access to Keystone's website obtained the key that its hardware wallets use to prove they are genuine, the company said in a statement on October 26. Someone with that key could build counterfeit devices that pass the online check owners use to verify a Keystone. A buyer who ...
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What happens when security tools go dark before the ransomware
A China-linked ransomware crew disabled the security tools at a critical infrastructure operator before it launched the encryptor. Most security budgets never priced that in.
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UK pentester 'killa' claims $2K Bitcoin prize in PHP2Shell capture-the-flag contest
Jaydip Modhwadia beats challenge designed to test real-world exploitability of PHP2Shell in around 3 hours
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Chinese man extradited for role in $36 million cryptocurrency scam
A Chinese national was arraigned in California after being extradited from the Netherlands for his alleged involvement in a cryptocurrency investment scam that stole nearly $37 million from 174 victims in the United States.
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Lazarus hackers use post-quantum cryptography for malware delivery
North Korean hackers are using a post-quantum cryptographic mechanism to secure malicious payload delivery in new operations that combine old and new malware.
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She Was the DEA’s Premier Crypto Detective. The Clues Led Straight to Her Own Family
To escape the chaos of her Russian childhood, Lili Infante became an American law enforcement prodigy. She pioneered the DEA’s investigations of the dark web—never suspecting who she’d find hiding there.
AI/MLCryptoWhitehall shuts the front door on digital ID but leaves the back open
Ministers may have scrapped the national scheme, but One Login, digital wallets and 80-plus planned credentials are still very much alive
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Hackers Exploit Plex2Shell Flaws to Install Crypto Miners and Linux Proxy Backdoor
Threat actors have begun to exploit a chain of vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server to deploy cryptocurrency miners and reverse proxy software, a day after a proof-of-concept (PoC) went public. According to a researcher who goes by the online alias boredhackerblog, the exploitation activity involve...
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⚡ Weekly Recap: 98 Zero-Days, Rogue AI Agents, $100M Crypto Theft, 700 Supermarkets Hit and More
The worst problems don't always come with a warning. Sometimes they arrive through a service everyone trusts, a device someone bought, or a system nobody thought to check. By the time something looks wrong, the damage may already be done. This week had plenty of that. Trusted connections became a p...
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Plex2Shell Exploit Chain Weaponized Against Plex Servers Hours After Disclosure
Threat actors have been observed delivering cryptocurrency miners and proxy software.
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