Security news
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Mercado Bitcoin Plans View-Only Reopening on Nov. 9 After Hack
The exchange says it will use company funds to replace affected assets, while withdrawals and trading await security clearance.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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BitMart founder says security team ‘severely understaffed’ after new hack
The crypto exchange’s founder warned of security staffing shortages amid restructuring as analysts flagged suspicious transfers potentially linked to the Mercado Bitcoin hack.
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Coinbase Says 99% of Customer Crypto Is Offline and Out of Hackers’ Reach
Coinbase told customers it wasn’t affected by the $6.4 billion Binance hack and detailed its security controls, including offline storage for over 99% of assets, split private keys and kill switches.
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Bitcoin rebounds past $80,000 as markets shrug off midterms and Binance hack
Bitcoin rose 3.5% to $80,500 and ether jumped 6% after Democrats won Congress, while Bitwise says the Binance hack had limited market impact.
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Lightning Labs Releases LND Mitigation for Critical Linux Flaw
LND v0.20.7-beta and v0.21.6-beta disable Multipath TCP by default, but operators still need a patched kernel to fix the underlying vulnerability.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Matt Corallo Flags Critical Linux Kernel Flaw; Lightning Labs Ships LND Mitigation
Bitcoin Magazine Matt Corallo Flags Critical Linux Kernel Flaw; Lightning Labs Ships LND Mitigation Bitcoin Core and Lightning developer Matt Corallo highlighted a severe Linux kernel vulnerability on October 30, criticizing Ubuntu’s delayed response to what he called “the most critical Linux vuln...
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Jack Dorsey’s Block (XYZ) Sets Aside $764 Million for DOJ Settlement as Bitcoin Profit Halves
Bitcoin Magazine Jack Dorsey's Block (XYZ) Sets Aside $764 Million for DOJ Settlement as Bitcoin Profit Halves Block has agreed in principle to pay $764 million to resolve a Justice Department investigation into its anti-money-laundering controls, a sum larger than the $566 million profit the...
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Coinbase says 99% of customer assets sit in cold storage after Binance’s $6.3 billion breach
Coinbase says 99% of customer assets are in cold storage and it wasn't affected by the $6.3 billion Binance hack.
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Privacy Cash Pauses Deposits After Binance Hack
Elliptic traced about $1.2 million in theft-linked ETH and SOL into its pools; the team says withdrawals remain open.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Binance Expands Proof of Reserves to 44 Tokens After Hack
The exchange says it has replenished about 98% of affected assets, but the new cryptographic proof is unfinished and withdrawals are not fully reopened.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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BitMart hit by $391K hack amid security staff exodus
Crypto exchange BitMart was hacked for $391,000 this week as it struggles to retain its “severely understaffed” security team. Founder Sheldon Xia revealed that the hack took place on Monday and is one of “numerous attacks” it's dealing with. Blockchain data firm Bitquery reports that $391,000 was...
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Mercado Bitcoin Attacker Swaps Tokens for $10.55 Million in ETH, Arkham Says
Arkham traced $13.26 million leaving labelled wallets, while Mercado Bitcoin has raised its blocked-assets estimate to $12.9 million.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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THORChain's RUNE jumps 10% as North Korean hackers resume laundering Binance loot
North Korea’s TraderTraitor is routing Binance hack proceeds through THORChain, swapping ether for bitcoin after an earlier wave of conversions from Tron.
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Binance hack may be ‘temporary setback’ for crypto, Grayscale’s Pandl says
Zach Pandl highlighted institutional custody safeguards as crypto markets recovered some losses following the record $6.3 billion Binance hack.
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Binance hackers move 81% of stolen Solana, route funds via THORChain
The Binance attackers moved most of the stolen SOL and continued laundering funds through THORChain after the protocol resumed swaps.
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Jack Dorsey's Block faces $764 million DOJ settlement as bitcoin profit plunges 50%
The proposed agreement would resolve a federal anti-money-laundering investigation, while lower Cash App trading fees halved Block's quarterly bitcoin gross profit.
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French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa exploited for over $133 million, ZachXBT says
ZachXBT said he has a 'high degree of confidence' that the attacker is not associated with North Korea's Lazarus Group.
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BitMart Founder Confirms Hack During Restructuring
Bitquery traced about $391,000 in outflows mostly from BitMart-linked wallets to an address used in the Mercado Bitcoin attack.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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What happens if North Korea steals Wall Street's tokenized assets next
The $6.3 billion Binance hack showed how quickly cryptocurrencies can disappear on blockchain rails. Tokenized securities may offer better recourse than crypto after a theft, but the markets around them can still break down when stress hits.
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CZ calls for crypto security alliance as AI-driven attacks accelerate after Binance hack
In his first interview since the Binance hack, Changpeng Zhao says AI is accelerating cyberattacks and calls for industry security alliance.
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Crypto Docs Host GitBook Hit by AI Agent Security Breach, Urges Users to Rotate Keys
GitBook says attackers accessed infrastructure credentials in an AI-assisted breach, prompting a shutdown and emergency token resets.
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Crypto survived cybersecurity awareness month… just
Cybersecurity Awareness Month is thankfully over. An already bumper month, which saw a PHP vulnerability threaten an estimated 70% of websites and Ledger devices drained for $90 million via spyware implants, ended with a bang as Binance suffered the biggest hack (or theft of any kind) in history....
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Brazil's Biggest Bitcoin Exchange Says It Will Refund Users After a $40 Million Hack
Mercado Bitcoin says customers won't pay for a hack that drained tens of millions. Withdrawals on the exchange remain frozen with no restart date.
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THORChain Refused to Block the $387M Bitget Hacker. Here’s Why | Chad Barraford
Bitget lost $387.5 million in a hack and asked THORChain to block the attacker’s addresses. THORChain said no. Weeks later, Tether froze four THORChain vaults on Tron holding 1.45 million USDT, then unfroze them three hours later. And in May, THORChain itself lost $10.7 million to a GG20 flaw...
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Five Ways North Korea Breaks Into Crypto Firms—and How Binance Was Hacked
From AI deepfakes to poisoning code libraries: here's how North Korean hackers get inside crypto companies.
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GitBook Revokes All Personal API Tokens After Breach
The company says an attack used AI agents and may have exposed integration credentials and questions submitted by documentation visitors.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Epidemic of Hacked Freezers Spreads Across Europe
A suspected hacking wave has pushed supermarket freezers into defrost mode across ten European countries, with temperatures reportedly hitting 50°C. Nobody knows who's behind it or why it spread.
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South Korea's president says country needs a ‘cybersecurity czar’ following $6.3 billion Binance hack
Lee Jae Myung said he wants a government-wide agency to tackle cyberattacks as AI raises security concerns across financial institutions and critical infrastructure.
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Binance Says $6.34 Billion Hack Began With Fake Job Interview
Bitcoin Magazine Binance Says $6.34 Billion Hack Began With Fake Job Interview The $6.34 billion theft from Binance began with a fake job interview and ran for five months before a single coin moved, the exchange said Tuesday in its first public account of the Oct. 29 attack. Another initial...
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Binance traces $6.3B hack to fake job interviews, compromised AI tool
Hackers exploited compromised employee computers and stolen credentials to breach Binance’s wallet infrastructure, according to the exchange’s investigation.