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.

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

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

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.

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