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Seventeen and a half million Instagram accounts just got an unwanted encore appearance on the dark web, thanks to an old API flaw that’s back to cause fresh headaches. According to a security notice from cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes, data tied to roughly 17.5 million Instagram users is circulating freely on Breachforums after resurfacing in early … Read more
On Jan. 8, the Truebit protocol’s native token (TRU) plummeted 99.95% to near-zero after a $26 million exploit. Security firm Cyvers Alerts detected the anomaly when a single address siphoned approximately 8,535 ether. The Anatomy of the Attack The native token of Truebit, a verification and orchestration layer for tokenized assets, collapsed by 99.95% on … Read more
2025 marked a turning point in crypto security with the $1.5 billion Bybit hack, the largest DeFi breach ever, executed by North Korea’s Lazarus Group. Chainalysis data shows rising risks for individual wallets, while exchanges experiment with controversial protocol‑level freezes. Analysts argue the future of crypto security hinges on balancing rapid‑response coordination, transparency, and decentralized … Read more
A trader lost nearly $50 million in USDT after falling victim to an “address poisoning” scam. The attacker spoofed a wallet address that looked identical to the victim’s, tricking him into copying it from his transaction history. The Mechanics of Address Poisoning A cryptocurrency trader lost nearly $50 million in a single transaction on Dec. … Read more
Webacy is a digital asset security firm launched in 2021 that provides AI-powered risk intelligence to wallets and exchanges. Webacy’s Trillion-Dollar Mission San Francisco-based crypto security firm Webacy has a knack for attracting famous investors. In 2023, Internet personality Gary Vaynerchuk participated in the startup’s $4 million seed round, alongside firms like Mozilla. On Monday, … Read more
According to a myriad of reports, Aerodrome Finance and Velodrome Finance spent Saturday putting out fires after a DNS hijack quietly rerouted users to phishing sites. Aerodrome–Velodrome Front Ends Compromised The Base and Optimism platforms woke up on Nov. 22 to find their front ends hijacked, sending unsuspecting users straight into malicious look-alikes designed to … Read more
Anthropic says artificial intelligence (AI) has reached a pivotal threshold in cybersecurity, with new evidence showing AI models are now capable of carrying out major cyber operations—both defensive and offensive—at unprecedented scale. AI Hits a Cybersecurity Tipping Point, Anthropic Warns in New Investigation Anthropic, the AI firm behind Claude, says its internal evaluations and threat-intelligence … Read more
A new study found that 16 current blockchains possess protocol-level freezing capabilities that allow foundations or governance groups to block specific addresses, with an additional 19 potentially able to support freezing in the future. Three Methods of Freezing Funds Identified A recent study by Bybit reveals that 16 blockchains currently have protocol‑level freezing capabilities, allowing … Read more
SEAL announced a coalition with Metamask, Walletconnect, Backpack and Phantom on October 2025 to deploy a global, real‑time phishing protection network for wallet end users using SEAL’s Verifiable Phishing Reports technology, which lets anyone submit cryptographically attested phishing reports. The system automates and trustlessly processes real‑time submissions to bypass advanced cloaking and integrates feeds into … Read more
A recent NPM supply chain attack sparked brief panic in the crypto community, raising fears of widespread fund theft. While some dismissed the exploit as minor, security experts emphasized it as a wake-up call for developers. A ‘Nothingburger’ With a Wake-up Call Initial reports of a large-scale JavaScript Node Package Manager (NPM) supply-chain attack triggered … Read more
