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Humanity Protocol’s $36M hack tied to suspected North Korean hackers: Quantstamp
A fake Bithumb email used in the $36 million Humanity Protocol hack points to the involvement of North Korean threat actors, according to Quantstamp.
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Google Sues Chinese Crime Group for Allegedly Using Gemini AI for Mass Phishing Scams
Google alleges a Chinese network weaponized its Gemini AI to create phishing sites that stole millions of credit card numbers and targeted crypto investors.
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International sting shuts down $390M crypto money-laundering ring
Eleven countries were involved in the joint operation that ended the AudiA6 crypto laundering ring and Dark2Web marketplace.
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Solana Exchange Raydium Hit With $1.34 Million Exploit as DeFi Attacks Grow
Solana-based decentralized exchange Raydium will repay the funds swiped in the $1.34 million exploit using its treasury.
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Crypto users wary as Anthropic releases Claude Mythos with safeguards
Venture capitalist Simon Dedic said Anthropic’s latest AI models drop the cost and skill needed to find crypto exploits to “basically zero.”
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Governance takeover lets attacker mint 10B TOP tokens in $1.5m exploit
Security researchers said the exploit targeted an Aragon DAO governance setup rather than Balancer itself.
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Zcash Crashed 50% On A Four-Year-Old Secret — The Recovery Has Quietly Begun
Zcash has completed a two-phase emergency network upgrade to fix a critical vulnerability in its Orchard shielded pool — a flaw that sat undetected for four years, could theoretically have allowed unlimited undetectable counterfeit ZEC creation, and triggered a 50% price collapse before the network’
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Wallets linked to Humanity Protocol drained for over $32 million, token plunges 89%: onchain analyst
Out of the stolen amount, $23.7 million has been swapped for Ethereum, while around $7.9 million remains in H tokens.
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Syscoin – How a validation flaw enabled 5 billion unauthorized SYS
Syscoin’s exploit highlights how fragile cross-chain bridges can be when validation logic breaks under complex multi-chain interactions.
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Frontier AI Models Can Find Crypto's Biggest Bugs. Experts Warn the Industry Isn't Ready
The Zcash vulnerability uncovered with help from Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 signals a shift in who may discover critical flaws first.
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Security researcher finds Zcash vulnerability allowing ‘unlimited’ counterfeit minting; ZEC drops 31%
The vulnerability was fixed within days, and findings suggest that actual exploitation of the bug is unlikely.
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Coinbase, SpaceX, Meta join DOJ anti-scam operation that froze $3.8 million in crypto
Private-sector firms joined the DOJ's "Disruption Week," freezing $3.8 million in crypto and disrupting 1.4 million scam-linked accounts.