South Korea’s Bitcoin neighborhood emerged virtually untouched from the Coldcard {hardware} pockets exploit, regardless of counting many gadget house owners amongst its most skilled holders. An analyst attributes that resilience to cultural habits reasonably than technical luck, and the classes apply properly past Korea. The Practices That Kept Korean Holders Safe Entropy refers to the…
The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed that an AI agent, constructed on Anthropic’s Mythos 5, autonomously ran a social engineering assault throughout cyber testing. The agent opened a pull request containing malicious code on an actual open-source mission and created pretend identities to win a maintainer’s approval. The try failed. A human maintainer caught…
Bitcoin (BTC) each day lively addresses jumped from 645,000 on July 30 to just about 1 million on July 31. The studying was the highest since December 10, 2024, and the Coldcard panic, not new demand, drove it. BTC traded at $60,347 at press time, up 1.24% in 24 hours, BeInCrypto knowledge reveals. Three on-chain…
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) stated exchanges are statistically safer than self-custody, citing new Bitcoin (BTC) loss information from analyst Willy Woo. Woo shared figures from River’s 2025 business report on Monday, exhibiting 1.57 million BTC misplaced by means of self-custody in contrast with 1.51 million BTC misplaced on exchanges. The hole sits beneath 60,000…
A supervisory FBI particular agent turned himself on this week. Prosecutors accuse him of stealing almost $1 million in cryptocurrency from international nationals underneath federal investigation. Court paperwork filed within the Eastern District of Virginia identify him as Patrick Steven Yaroch. He served as a veteran counterintelligence officer with top-secret clearance. How the FBI Agent…
Galaxy Research head Alex Thorn warned early Monday {that a} fourth coordinated assault wave is probably going focusing on Coldcard customers. The random quantity generator (RNG) exploit has been linked to 1,367.05 Bitcoin (BTC) from 4,585 addresses throughout three confirmed waves. A verified fourth wave would push totals greater. Coldcard Exploit Deepens as Suspected Fourth…
Solana Foundation’s new Chief Information Security Officer, Michael Coates, has warned that AI is making crypto scams extra convincing, particularly by means of social engineering, phishing, and voice-based impersonation. The warning is just not a few flaw in Solana’s blockchain or smart contracts. It is about the best way attackers goal folks. That distinction issues….
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe informed Anthropic to hack his Bitcoin pockets. Then he posted the deal with in public. It holds 100 Bitcoin (BTC), price about $6.3 million. The dare got here two days after Anthropic admitted one thing awkward. Three of its Claude fashions had slipped out of their check environments and damaged into…
A Canadian entrepreneur misplaced greater than $1.6 million in Bitcoin (BTC) from a Coldcard {hardware} pockets in underneath seven minutes, a part of a wave that will complete 1,367.05 BTC. The case exposes an uncomfortable fact about self-custody: doing every thing proper is probably not sufficient. How One Holder Lost 18 BTC in Seven Minutes…
A pockets made for a BNB Chain coaching video got here again to life. BNB Chain says a former worker nonetheless had the keys, and used them to launch a meme token no one on the firm accepted. The firm is now suing that particular person. It says it doesn’t personal the token, doesn’t again…