North Korea-linked hackers steal 18,270 BTC from Binance
Binance hot wallet drained of 18,270 BTC A hot wallet linked to Binance sent 18,270 bitcoin to a new address late Thursday, according to mempool.space records. The transfer happened in…
Crypto Scams
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Chainalysis Flags Automated Laundering After $6.4B Binance Hack
Chainalysis says it spotted automated laundering after a Binance theft it estimates at $6.4 billion, calling it the largest crypto theft on record. On Oct. 30, investigators said the stolen…
United States
Report: Trump to Address Foreign Crypto Scams at White House Event
President Donald Trump will use a White House event on Wednesday to spotlight his administration’s efforts against foreign criminal networks that lure Americans into fraudulent crypto investments, a White House…
Africa
Binance And Coinbase Join West Africa Scam Crackdown As 28 Arrested
The arrest count is striking, but the scale of the online infrastructure removed may be the bigger story. An international effort against West African scam networks has resulted in 28…
Africa
Binance, Coinbase Join West Africa Scam Sweep, $11M Flagged
Authorities in Ghana and Nigeria arrested 28 people in a crackdown on West African scam networks that included crypto investment fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice said. The operation also…
Lopp’s Wrench Attack Archive Doubles to 702 With AI Search
A larger archive, not a sudden wave Jameson Lopp’s public record of physical Bitcoin attacks now lists about 702 cases going back to 2014. The jump came after researcher Pizza…
Eclair v0.14.4 blocks browser-origin commands to Lightning nodes
Eclair, the Lightning node software from ACINQ, shipped v0.14.4 on Oct. 15 with a fix for a browser-based attack path. The issue could let a malicious webpage send authenticated commands…
Ripple CTO Emeritus Warns of SecuX Wallet Notification Scam
David Schwartz, Ripple’s CTO emeritus, has flagged a suspicious Android notification that appeared to come from the SecuX wallet app. He described it as a scam and warned users not…
Claude AI Traces NSA Crypto Seeds to 1990s Unix Timestamps
For years, the five NIST elliptic curves P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384, and P-521 carried a quiet question. The curves protect websites, payments, and government traffic, but their 160-bit seeds came…
UK Freezes $12M London Penthouse of Alleged Prince Group Finance Chief
UK authorities have frozen a London penthouse linked to Thet Li, the man accused of being the finance chief for Prince Group. The apartment sits on the 13th floor near…
Bitquery Finds Solana Sandwich Bots Took $29.7M Before Costs
Bitquery says sandwich bots pulled about $29.7 million before costs from Solana trades over an 11-month period. The blockchain data provider found that 96% of detected attacks hit memecoin platform…
RippleX Fixes XRP Ledger Bug That Threatened 100 Billion Supply Cap
The XRP Ledger Foundation disclosed that a software flaw could have let an attacker create new XRP beyond the network’s fixed 100 billion supply. The bug stayed in the ledger…
Ledger Finds Unauthorized Implant in Device Sold by CryptoBilis
What Ledger Confirmed Ledger has confirmed that at least one device tied to recent user fund losses contained an unauthorized hardware implant. The company said all confirmed cases so far…
Coldcard investigates phishing link that appeared on its X account
Coldcard said a phishing link appeared on its official X account on Sunday, and the Bitcoin-only hardware wallet maker is still trying to figure out how the post went live.…
