Security

At least two cases have been reported since Sept. 10, with police saying tampered hardware components were found in Ledger devices bought from some local retail stores.

The Canadian self-described “crypto king” told the court he is innocent as jurors prepare to deliberate on fraud charges tied to an alleged digital-asset Ponzi scheme.

TRM Labs research links cryptocurrency payments to Virtualine, a bulletproof hosting provider whose domain the FBI seized on October 27, with a drug marketplace accounting for 44% of direct inflows.

Coinbase says its systems and customer funds were not compromised after a security incident at analytics provider Amplitude, but unverified claims suggest over 70,000 users may be affected.

Trezor's software product lead argues AI agents can prepare crypto transactions but should never finalize them without a hardware wallet signature.

A tally of 230 hacked protocols shows roughly $2.35 billion in net losses for 2026, with the Bitget drain and a Liquid Network inflation bug among the largest incidents.

Google is reportedly debuting Google Multi-Party Compute, a crypto custody system that splits signing keys across separate systems, at its first digital assets symposium in New York today. The product is in private previ...

Teku and Besu Docker releases remove four certificate roots after eMudhra compromise, but binary installations require operators to check their separately managed Java runtime.

A wave of major cyberattacks and AI-discovered vulnerabilities has prompted security experts to urge stronger personal cyber hygiene, while warning that shared infrastructure weaknesses can expose many at once.

A Nursing and Midwifery Council panel found Rebecca Louise Burwood used her position at a Mold care home for personal and financial gain, with more than £370,000 leaving the resident's bank account.

Coinbase linked a contact-data exposure to third-party analytics provider Amplitude, while Bithumb and South Korean financial firms reported separate breaches and are assessing the scope.

South Korea’s second-largest crypto exchange said an outsider accessed an internal employee mobile system and stole personal information, while the financial regulator assessed cyberattacks on major firms.

South Korea’s Bithumb is investigating whether member data was exposed after a breach of its in-house mobile system, while stressing that customer trading assets are separate.

Foundation, the company behind Passport hardware wallet, reported a security incident on November 26 involving over 23,000 phishing emails. Attackers may have accessed personal data from legacy databases.

Akamai has launched a beta sandbox to isolate AI agent code, as security leaders report a surge in machine identities and major vendors race to secure agentic AI.

A wallet suspected of belonging to the UXLINK hacker holds a 30,282 ETH long on Hyperliquid with up to $6.54 million in unrealized gains, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin.

Crypto analysts traced roughly 105 ETH from 19 victims and warned that more users may be affected, with funds bridged to Ethereum and sent to Tornado Cash.

Crypto wallet maker Keystone will destroy almost 19,000 unsold devices after a security breach exposed a key used to verify device authenticity, potentially allowing counterfeit wallets to pass validation checks.

Hackers stole a critical authentication key during a Keystone website breach, potentially allowing attackers to create counterfeit wallets that pass the company's verification checks. Keystone plans to destroy nearly 19,...

Jump Crypto's Firedancer validator client now requires a non-refundable 1 SOL burn with every bug bounty submission, while temporarily doubling standard payouts and tripling rewards for critical Alpenglow consensus findi...