Security

A group claiming to be Revolut Smilik has published personal data of high-profile Revolut customers and demanded 10,000 Bitcoin, threatening to release more information daily until the fintech pays.

Peru's Ministry of Economy and Finance confirmed its official X account was compromised by crypto scammers on September 14, who used the platform to promote an unauthorized token ahead of a claimed September 25 launch da...

Wyoming migrated its Frontier Stable Token (FRNT) from LayerZero to Chainlink's CCIP following repeated security lapses, including a lost private key tied to a live deployment.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin suggests that blockchain governance safeguards against harmful coordination may offer solutions for managing increasingly autonomous AI agents, drawing parallels between crypto systems...

Swiss Bitcoin Pay, a non-custodial bitcoin payment processor based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, temporarily shut down its servers after a data breach on Monday. The company confirmed that user funds remain safe, though cus...

Following reports that attackers stole Revolut customer data and demanded ransom, security experts point to non-KYC alternatives as a way to reduce personal information exposure.

As major tech leaders call for AI safety measures, the Trump administration has dismissed regulatory proposals, while the cryptocurrency industry grapples with emerging threats from artificial intelligence including deep...

A Pennsylvania parts supplier lost over $50,000 after a mailed check was intercepted and altered by a woman in Nevada. The company has since shifted to electronic payments despite higher costs.

TRON's proposed quantum-resistant migration design could leave migrated accounts able to make payments but unable to replace their cryptographic keys if governance disables the signing scheme they depend on, according to...

MetaMask is launching wallet protections including warnings for lookalike addresses, investment and romance scams, and first-time transfers. A separate feature automatically reverts transactions that don't match their pr...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has joined calls to slow frontier AI development, citing risks that humanity could lose control of advanced AI systems. Security experts warn that cryptocurrency exchanges, wallets, and smart contra...

Cross-chain liquidity protocol Symbiosis recovered 15 Bitcoin worth approximately $1.1 million following a Friday bridge exploit that minted 46.1 billion unbacked tokens. The protocol is offering a 20% bounty for informa...

A vulnerability in Symbiosis's Bitcoin Bridge allowed attackers to mint 46.1 billion unbacked syBTC tokens on September 11, though actual losses were limited to roughly $336,000 in extracted value.

Police in Puebla seized hundreds of graphics processing units and power infrastructure at a hidden mining site, marking the fourth similar discovery in the region. Global illicit crypto transactions more than doubled to ...

The DOJ's Scam Center Strike Force restrained approximately $52 million in cryptocurrency from Xinbi, a Chinese-language marketplace that facilitated fraud services. The operation brings the Strike Force's total restrain...

Cross-chain protocol Symbiosis recovered approximately 15 BTC after an attacker exploited its native Bitcoin Bridge on September 11, but affected liquidity providers still lack compensation terms as the protocol's bounty...

Research examining 135 DeFi incidents from early 2026 reveals that attacks classified as outside audit boundaries accounted for 94.4% of losses among audited protocols, highlighting gaps between what audits review and wh...

BTCPay Server has warned that automated systems are targeting exposed Lightning nodes to exploit a restart-time vulnerability that could enable attackers to obtain administrative credentials and control merchant wallets....

XPR Network suffered a $9 million liquidity drain from the proton.swaps protocol after attackers exploited a flaw in the withdrawal function. Network producers patched the vulnerability and secured most stolen funds, tho...

Solana Mobile has disabled its third-party marketing email account at Brevo following unauthorized access discovered during a broader security incident affecting 138 customer accounts at the email provider.