Security

The Sandbox project recently suffered a cross-chain bridge exploit that resulted in the unauthorized minting of 14.9 billion SAND tokens across the Base and BNB Smart Chain networks.

Crypto investigator ZachXBT plans to restrict users from countries including the UK, Canada, and India on his upcoming crypto fraud support website.

Coinkite has released a new Coldcard firmware update requiring users to supply manual randomness for new wallet seeds following a significant security exploit.

A Dallas businessman has been charged in a federal indictment accusing him of using falsified financial records to obtain more than $40 million in loans.

BounceBit is shutting down its Layer 1 blockchain and reissuing its BB token as a BEP-20 asset on BNB Chain following an exploit involving 286.5 million tokens.

A group of security researchers and developers has formed the Bitcoin Red Team to proactively scan the Bitcoin software ecosystem for vulnerabilities as AI lowers the barrier for attackers.

South Korea's major exchanges responded after an exploit on The Sandbox's Base deployment resulted in unauthorized token minting.

Criminal adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has climbed 40% year-on-year in 2026, according to blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs. Scams drove most of that growth. TRM’s new AI-in-Crime Adoption Index scores ove...

YZi Labs-backed BounceBit has announced plans to permanently cease its BounceBit Chain. Instead of repairing the network, BounceBit plans to redeem BB as a BEP-20 token on BNB Chain. This comes after a recent attack in w...

The Sandbox announced it contained a cross-chain bridge vulnerability on Base and BNB Smart Chain following an unbacked token minting incident.

A potential violation of security surrounding The Sandbox’s SAND token has caused a stir among traders. According to on-chain researchers, the perpetrators could be behind the minting of several hundred million in SAND t...

Metaverse project The Sandbox suffered a security breach on its cross-chain bridges for Base and BNB Smart Chain, resulting in unbacked token creation.

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Coinkite has issued new firmware for Coldcard hardware wallets after a seed-generation vulnerability resulted in over $130 million in Bitcoin thefts.

India's cybercrime agency has directed Google to shut down hundreds of Firebase accounts and take down dozens of sites linked to fake banking applications and phishing schemes.

The suspected Bitcoin address tied to the Maya Protocol exploit held 20.83 BTC with no outgoing transactions as of Aug. 21, while a broader $11 million pool impact remains unaddressed.

Bitcoin restaking firm BounceBit is shutting down its blockchain after hackers exploited an authorization vulnerability to steal over $3.1 million in BB tokens.

The migration to BNB Chain highlights the critical need for robust security measures in blockchain infrastructure to prevent future exploits. The post BounceBit to shut down its L1 chain and migrate to BNB Chain after 28...

Recent security research presented at the USENIX Security Symposium has linked a majority of analyzed EIP-7702 authorization transactions to malicious contracts.

A crypto influencer faked a $6 million short liquidation on Bitcoin using a demo account, only to be exposed by community fact-checking.