Binance loses $5.7 billion in largest crypto hack to date
Binance has lost $5.7 billion in what CoinDesk calls the largest crypto hack to date, and crypto prices are sliding, with bitcoin falling back to $79,000. CoinDesk What would a…
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Polymarket suspends trading after third-party breach leads to user losses
Polymarket has suspended trading after a breach at a third party led to losses for users, CoinDesk reported on Thursday. CoinDesk When a platform relies on outside vendors for…
1 post ·THREE NEW BITCOIN CORE VULNERABILITIES DISCOVERED, INCLUDING BUG ALLOWING ATTACKERS TO REMOTELY CRASH NODES
2 posts ·Google previewed Multi-Party Compute (MPC) security technology to help institutions manage and transfer their own crypto assets.
3 posts ·Coinbase says customer funds are safe after vendor incident exposes contact information
Coinbase says an incident at analytics firm Amplitude exposed some customer contact information, but that its own systems were not breached and customer funds are safe. CoinDesk…
1 post ·Crypto wallet maker Keystone to destroy almost 19,000 devices after data breach
Crypto wallet maker Keystone will destroy almost 19,000 devices after a security breach that exposed 25,964 buyer records, some kept past its 180-day deletion policy after an…
1 post ·Bitcoin wallet bug let rogue servers steal funds during fee bumps
CoinDesk reports a Bitcoin wallet bug let attackers replace legitimate transactions with fake ones and wait for users to approve higher fees, with at least one person losing…
3 posts ·India's largest exchange denies hack after $16 million in suspicious outflows
CoinDCX, India's largest exchange, denies its active wallets were hacked after blockchain sleuths flagged $16 million in outflows from addresses linked to it. CoinDesk When an…
2 posts ·Liquid Reopens the Exit. The Vault Is Still 602 Bitcoin Short.
Chart: the Liquid federation's bitcoin reserve before and after the September 6 drain, against the LBTC it owes. Sources: Liquid's incident assessment; the October 11 reserve…
Article ·ELECTRUM BITCOIN WALLET CONFIRMS CRITICAL SECURITY VULNERABILITY EXPLOITED IN THE WILD
2 posts ·Bitcoin Core ends months-long embargo on bugs an AI could rediscover
Bitcoin Core developers merged a policy change that ends the months-long embargo for flaws a chatbot could rediscover, after a summer in which AI found hundreds of bitcoin bugs…
3 posts ·Is Bitwater by Heatbit a good idea?
2 posts ·Crypto scams: HEX, PulseChain and PulseX
4 posts ·Compromised TLS certs
4 posts ·Node.js just dropped its OWN security bombshell.
3 posts ·Is there a "kill switch" in Spark's operator code that freezes individual wallets?
2 posts ·Why do people think Spark snd Ark protocol on bitcoin are open and free when in fact they can freeze/zombify any wallet they choose to?
2 posts ·What a Locked iPhone Still Gives Up
An Enigma machine — the shape of this argument, unchanged since before phones existed: a machine built to keep a secret, and a machine built by someone else to open it. Central…
Article ·A Twenty-Five-Minute Window, and Why I Split the Key
A Coldcard, mid-transaction. Photo: Gareth Halfacree (Bradford, UK), via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0 — not my photo, and the only one in this entry that isn't.…
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