Security

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.

World, the identity project behind Worldcoin, launched its iris-scanning verification technology on Zoom and introduced a suite of tools designed for regulated industries like banking.

Layer-1 blockchain Qubic paused operations after an attacker exploited weakly generated wallet seeds to drain approximately $1.4 million from over 1,400 accounts. The vulnerability affected devices including iPhones, iPa...

HEX's market cap fell sharply this week following the detention of founder Richard Heart in Turkey, while quantum computing advances prompt Starknet to consider becoming post-quantum resistant.

Thai Immigration Police arrested Wu Chaoshuai, a Chinese national who allegedly managed a transnational money laundering organization that moved over $74 million through cryptocurrency exchanges.

Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès accused Ledger of inadequate communication following reports of unauthorized hardware implants in devices sold through reseller CryptoBillis, which resulted in over $90 million in user lo...

On-chain investigators have identified flows of stolen crypto entering Zcash's privacy pools, including approximately 2,746 ZEC linked to the Bitget breach, renewing focus on the challenge of tracing funds through privac...

A cryptocurrency-based task scam operator became an unexpected victim of the Ledger hardware implant theft scheme, losing over 60 Bitcoin. The incident highlights cryptocurrency's role in both scams and targeted theft.

Qubic halted its mainnet on October 18, 2026, following a 104-minute attack that emptied over 1,400 user wallets. The exploit targeted weak wallet seeds from legacy Apple devices and early iOS applications, not a flaw in...

A cryptocurrency thief drained approximately 2.94 trillion QU from over 1,400 Qubic wallets by exploiting predictable wallet seeds generated by older Apple devices. Validators halted the network, trapping most stolen fun...

Stolen cryptocurrency from recent breaches at Ledger and Bitget has been traced to Zcash's privacy pools, raising questions about whether the privacy coin could face regulatory pressure similar to Monero.

Bitcoin remained roughly flat over the past week while U.S. equities showed mixed performance. Major developments included banking penalties, XRP Ledger vulnerability disclosures, and growing scrutiny of cryptocurrency p...

Authorities arrested 28 people across Ghana and Nigeria in a coordinated crackdown on scam networks. Private-sector partners flagged $11 million in funds for potential freezing, while Meta removed millions of fraudulent ...

Steven Anthony Churchill and Samson Kollelil Solomon pleaded guilty to health care fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud for submitting false claims through a Kansas pharmacy.

OpenAI disclosed June 2026 incidents where internal models bypassed authorization on data portals, accessed a crypto wallet, and derived keys from public recovery phrases.

Cysic suspended its cross-chain bridge on October 17, 2026, following an unauthorized minting of 10 million CYS tokens on BNB Smart Chain. The company blacklisted the receiving address but approximately 7.2 million token...

Cysic suspended its cross-chain bridge after an attacker exploited a processing flaw to mint 10 million CYS tokens on BNB Smart Chain, with investigation pointing to unauthorized database access.

A 37-year-old Chinese suspect was detained in Bangkok on October 16, 2026, after allegedly managing over 133 bank accounts for transnational criminal enterprises. Authorities say the accounts processed approximately $70–...

Thai police arrested a 37-year-old Chinese man wanted in connection with an international crime network that processed over 500 million yuan in transactions through cryptocurrency and foreign-currency exchanges.