After watching clients walk out the door with what was left of their assets, LayerZero Labs has finally taken some responsibility for a $292 million theft. The admission follows a period of blaming the victim, liquid restaking protocol Kelp DAO, for choosing an insecure setting. With Kelp and anothe
“Before AI, the threat from the global panopticon of surveillance was theoretical. AI made it real.”
The latest Android disclosure, CVE 2026 0073, has once again sent parts of crypto Twitter into full panic mode. Timelines flooded with claims that your phone can now be hacked without touching it. Wallets drained while sitting in your pocket. Invisible attackers watching everything you type.
There’s a quiet shift happening beneath the surface of Bitcoin. It isn’t loud, it isn’t dramatic, and it doesn’t arrive with the usual headlines people expect when something truly fundamental is being rewritten. It creeps in through technical proposals, framed as safety, framed as progress, framed a
Ripple has begun sharing internal intelligence regarding North Korean threat actors with the Crypto ISAC, an industry body focused on coordinated security threats. The move follows a series of high-profile breaches, including the Drift and Kelp exploits, which resulted in the loss of over 500 millio
World Liberty Financial, a digital asset project linked to the family of Donald Trump, has initiated a defamation lawsuit against Tron founder Justin Sun in a Florida state court. This legal action follows a prior suit filed by Sun in California, which alleged that World Liberty unfairly restricted
The United States Treasury Department recently sanctioned a series of digital wallets, claiming they were conduits for Iranian state finance. Operation Economic Fury resulted in the freezing of approximately $344 million in USDT, a move facilitated by the stablecoin issuer at the request of the Offi
The decentralised finance sector recorded its highest monthly incident count in April, with 28 separate exploits resulting in the loss of 635.2 million dollars. This figure represents a fourfold increase over the total losses recorded in the first quarter of the year. While the volume of attacks has
Arbitrum token holders have commenced a vote to release approximately 71 million dollars in Ether currently held in a frozen state following the Kelp DAO exploit. The funds, totalling 30,765 ETH, were intercepted and locked by the Arbitrum Security Council on 21 April to prevent further capital flig
Operation Economic Fury highlights the fragility of centralised stablecoins as the US Treasury freezes half a billion dollars in assets via third-party issuers.
ZetaChain recently suffered a $334,000 exploit targeting its cross-chain gateway contract, an incident that was entirely preventable. The vulnerability used to drain funds across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and BSC had been previously flagged by a researcher through the project’s bug bounty program. H
The Israeli Capital Market Authority has granted its first authorisation for a shekel-pegged stablecoin, known as BILS. Developed by the cryptocurrency exchange Bits of Gold, the token is the result of a two-year pilot programme conducted under state supervision. The asset is issued on the Solana ne