Security

A 43-year-old Hingham resident lost $56,000 after scammers posing as bank employees instructed her to wire her savings into a supposed safe account.

Pseudonymous blockchain investigator ZachXBT is launching a new website to handle crypto-fraud cases, but it will automatically reject submissions from seven specific countries due to a lack of local law enforcement acti...

MANTRA Chain successfully restarted block production after a 30-hour shutdown caused by a Cosmos-EVM module vulnerability, confirming user funds remained safe.

Cross-chain interoperability provider LayerZero is ending off-chain support for 14 low-activity chains within 30 days, following a major exploit and rising competition from Chainlink CCIP.

Coinkite has released new firmware for Coldcard Bitcoin hardware wallets following a seed exploit, forcing users to incorporate physical randomness for newly generated seeds while existing exposed seeds require migration...

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has ranked Canada as the worst jurisdiction globally for crypto crime victims, citing a lack of action by local law enforcement.

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.