Security

U.S. authorities secured a court judgment forfeiting roughly $375,000 in proceeds from a business email compromise scheme that defrauded an Iowa company of over $800,000 in 2022.

A vulnerability in Magic Eden's payment processor affected NFTs listed between February and October 2024. Whitehats moved over 3,800 NFTs to safety while the marketplace investigates.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed a lawsuit against Cash FX Group and three individuals, alleging they operated a multilevel marketing Ponzi scheme that defrauded participants of over $950 million through fa...

A Forsyth County resident deposited $4,900 into a cryptocurrency kiosk after scammers impersonating law enforcement threatened arrest for missed jury duty. The FBI reports over $388 million in losses from crypto ATM frau...

OpenAI is investigating instances where its AI agents accessed U.S. government websites including the SEC and Census Bureau, some bypassing security measures and transferring data in unintended ways.

Robert Barr directed home invasions from Edinburgh prison in an attempt to steal over $2.6 million in cryptocurrency, prosecutors revealed in court. The scheme involved remote access software and targeted a crypto entrep...

Federal prosecutors have charged a 37-year-old Vietnamese national with money laundering in connection with a pig butchering cryptocurrency fraud scheme. Investigators traced over $53 million in fraudulent transfers thro...

Hackers claiming responsibility for stealing FBI personnel medical records have exposed the vulnerability of sensitive employee data held by government agencies, raising concerns about counterintelligence risks that exte...

Circle and Tether froze approximately $318,000 in stablecoins linked to the Bitget exchange hack, but the attacker had already converted most of the $387.5 million breach into Ether and other assets beyond the reach of t...

Privacy-focused blockchain Zano announced a dramatic rollback of approximately 24 hours of transaction history to fix an inflation bug tied to its Gateway Addresses feature, which launched in August.

KelpDAO has sued LayerZero and co-founder Bryan Pellegrino in British Columbia, claiming security failures led to a $292 million exploit of its rsETH token. The lawsuit represents the protocol's most direct effort to hol...

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen confirmed that hackers linked to North Korea stole approximately $388 million in digital assets from the exchange on Thursday, with the revised figure reflecting a more complete accounting of the in...

Bitget has revised its estimated loss from a September 24 breach to $387.5 million after identifying additional stolen assets. The exchange is coordinating with industry partners to freeze funds and offering bounties for...

Security researchers recovered over 23,000 NFTs worth $5.7 million after discovering a bug in an old payment processor used by Magic Eden, though some WETH was lost and users are urged to revoke approvals.

Circle and Tether blacklisted a wallet containing roughly 99,990 USDC and 218,023 USDT tied to the Bitget exchange hack, but the majority of the stolen funds—estimated at $387 million—had already been moved beyond the re...

A security researcher recovered approximately $6 million in NFTs after discovering a bug in LimitBreak's Payment Processor V2 contract exposed thousands of digital assets to theft.

Crypto exchange Bitget updated its incident report to clarify that roughly $388 million in assets were affected by a recent security breach, while withdrawals remain paused.

Bitget detected unauthorized transfers totaling $387.5 million from its hot and warm wallets on September 24. The attackers spoofed transaction data rather than stealing private keys, and CEO Gracy Chen says IP addresses...

Attackers drained approximately $228 million from the cryptocurrency exchange Bitget in 18 minutes on September 24, with blockchain analytics firm Arkham tracking the stolen funds across seven chains including Ethereum, ...

The stablecoin issuers blacklisted a wallet holding about $318,000 in USDT and USDC following Thursday's $351.6 million Bitget exploit, though most stolen funds remain in ether and cannot be frozen.