Security

Blockchain security firm SlowMist has released a postmortem detailing how a vulnerability in the Qubic Wallet allowed attackers to drain approximately 2.94 trillion QU.

Boston Children's Health Physicians and its IT vendor XTIUM must pay millions in penalties after an August 2024 breach exposed the personal records of hundreds of thousands of patients across New York and Connecticut.

Bristol Crown Court sentenced three men to five to six years in prison for a May 2024 home invasion where they assaulted a man and demanded cryptocurrency. The case reflects rising violent crimes targeting cryptocurrency...

Zcash infrastructure team proposes separate incoming viewing keys for each cross-chain swap to limit potential quantum computer exposure to individual transactions rather than entire account histories.

Hacken's third-quarter report found total crypto theft rose to $1.18 billion, up 55% from Q2, yet losses from compromised keys fell roughly 30% as smart contract vulnerabilities became a larger share of incidents.

AnchorWatch Trust Company has opened as a Nevada state-chartered custodian, offering qualified bitcoin custody to public companies, trusts, and high-net-worth individuals with fixed annual fees capped at $10,000 per mont...

Quantinuum achieved a record 99.9995% logical fidelity in quantum error correction, advancing toward fault-tolerant quantum computers by 2029 and raising questions about the timeline for potential threats to Bitcoin's cr...

Qubic confirmed a security breach affecting wallets with weak seed generation, leading to the theft of approximately 2.94 trillion QU. The network's validators halted transactions to freeze most stolen funds, with 87.1% ...

World ID has introduced identity-verification products for financial institutions, including integrations with Zoom and AI agents, as deepfake fraud poses growing risks to banks and their customers.

Security incidents totaled $1.18 billion across 107 attacks in the third quarter of 2026, with smart-contract exploits rising to account for 48% of losses compared to 12% the previous quarter, according to Hacken's lates...

Tampered devices sold through a Southeast Asian reseller have been linked to approximately $90 million in reported crypto losses, raising concerns about the security of hardware wallet supply chains.

Anthropic reports that Claude reconstructed how seed values for widely used NIST elliptic curves were generated, resolving a decades-old question about their origin. The research found an ordinary pseudorandom generation...

Police in Amsterdam seized a server operated by Autistici/Inventati, an anti-fascist group offering digital services, following a U.S. designation as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist." Legal experts question whet...

Zcash developers are implementing wallet-level changes to address potential future quantum computing threats, with each ZEC swap on NEAR Intents set to use its own private key.

The Mt. Gox rehabilitation trustee has extended the creditor repayment deadline by another year to October 31, 2027, marking the fourth consecutive annual postponement since the initial 2023 target.

The Layer-1 blockchain network stopped operations on October 18, 2026, following an exploit that used a predictable random number generator to compromise wallet seeds. Most stolen funds were frozen on-chain within hours....

World, the iris-scanning identity project co-founded by Sam Altman, has introduced new verification tools designed to combat deepfake fraud in financial and workplace settings.

Zoom enterprise customers can now use World ID verification badges to confirm that participants on video calls are real humans.

A Seoul court found insufficient evidence to convict Korean influencer Park, known as 'Jonber Kim,' in a $253 million cryptocurrency fraud case involving pump-and-dump schemes, despite prosecutors seeking a 20-year sente...

Zakura proposes assigning separate viewing keys to each ZEC swap through NEAR Intents to prevent future quantum computers from exposing users' payment histories through publicly posted refund addresses.