Security

A CoinGecko report reveals that between January 2025 and July 2026, 245 documented security incidents resulted in $3.63 billion in losses across crypto platforms, with audited protocols accounting for the majority of sto...

An attacker drained over $653,000 from card collateral vaults at Avici, a Solana-based neobank, by exploiting a gap between the platform's documentation and its smart contract code. The AVICI token fell approximately 40%...

AVICI fell sharply after the network acknowledged problems with card-balance withdrawals. An address linked to the incident held approximately $604,800 in stablecoins and other tokens before funds were moved elsewhere.

A critical accounting flaw in Cosmos EVM software went unrecognized for four months before attackers stole approximately $5.72 million across six blockchain networks, including MANTRA, TAC, and KiiChain.

More than $600,000 has been drained from Avici user accounts through phishing attacks impersonating the Solana-based neobank, with fraudulent websites tricking users into connecting their wallets.

As autonomous AI agents become more capable, questions about liability grow urgent. Legal experts say existing law, not new AI-specific statutes, will likely determine who pays when things go wrong.

Radosław Piesiewicz, president of the Polish Olympic Committee, has been detained as prosecutors investigate the collapse of cryptocurrency platform Zondacrypto, which sponsored Poland's Olympic team before failing in Ap...

Lucid has initiated its largest recall, affecting 27,185 Air luxury sedans in the U.S. due to fire risk from an overheated exterior lighting circuit. The company has deployed an over-the-air software update to address th...

Brazil's Central Bank has developed a real-time alert system in partnership with Hypernative to help banks and crypto exchanges detect and respond to cyberattacks involving cryptocurrency. The system is set to begin inte...

Open-source wallet provider OneKey successfully reproduced a past vulnerability in an older Ledger Ethereum application within a lab environment, which Ledger confirmed has already been patched.

A Jacksonville woman has filed suit against VyStar Credit Union after fraudsters gained access to her online banking account and drained approximately $42,000 through unauthorized transfers, ATM withdrawals, and retail p...

Virtuals Protocol is deploying programmable agent wallets with owner-configurable policies designed to protect against prompt injection attacks and unauthorized fund transfers.

The Sandbox gaming platform announced full compensation for holders affected by an August 21 bridge exploit that drained approximately 14.7 million SAND tokens. Eligible users will receive equivalent Ethereum-based SAND ...

A CoinGecko security report found that 147 of 245 hacked protocols had completed independent audits, accounting for $3.22 billion in losses. The data reveals that most attacks targeted infrastructure and governance syste...

StarkWare and MARA Foundation announced the first known quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction on August 27, marking progress toward protecting the network from future quantum computing threats.

StarkWare says a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction has been mined on mainnet using hash-based security, offering a way to protect funds from potential quantum attacks without changing the network's consensus rules.

A successful quantum-safe transaction on Bitcoin mainnet shows a potential escape route for some holders, though roughly 7 million BTC with exposed public keys still lack protection against future quantum computing threa...

Major tech and finance companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft, signed an open letter urging governments to fund cybersecurity for hospitals, water utilities, and local agencies that lack resources ...

Sparrow Wallet released version 2.5.4 after an AI-assisted code review identified security fixes. Developer Craig Raw said the review produced most of the update's changes and found no evidence of exploitation.

A Public Citizen watchdog report documents over $4.7 billion in losses among investors in cryptocurrency schemes associated with the Trump family, while Trump himself earned approximately $1.4 billion through licensing f...