Hacks News

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Updated October 11, 2026 · 1:00 PM UTC

Stories 949 in this category

Coverage footprint 3.5% Relevant

News sentiment 36 /100 Bearish

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A hooded North Korean hacker works on a laptop displaying the North Korea flag as a tactical police officer approaches from behind in a dark cybercrime hideout filled with glowing code monitors.

Hacks

Secret laptop footage exposes North Korean spies infiltrating US companies

Researchers watched in real-time as the Famous Chollima division used this common remote work setup to bypass firewalls.

Oluwapelumi Adejumo 4 min read Dec 3, 2025

Hacks

The trick big crypto exchanges are using to mitigate hacks, yet can still lock up your money

Exchanges can reimburse hacked balances, but they can’t stop the instant shock to liquidity and market depth.

7 min read Dec 1, 2025

Hacks

Solana tokens rip on Upbit after $32M hack due to halted arbitrage

Korean traders began bidding up altcoin prices as arbitrage bots, which normally keep Korean and international prices aligned, stopped operating.

3 min read Nov 27, 2025

Latest Hacks News & Analysis

A massive sandworm-like creature erupts from the cracked ground, towering behind a glowing Bitcoin coin, with ENS and Zapier buildings in the background under a stormy sky.

Crypto

Malicious worm compromises crypto domains in supply-chain attack

The worm installs the Bun runtime during package setup, then executes malicious code that searches developer environments for exposed secrets using TruffleHog.

4 min read Nov 25, 2025

Scams

Top-ranked Chrome ‘wallet’ sneakily steals crypto seedphrases

A top-ranked Chrome wallet quietly exfiltrated seed phrases using Sui micro-transactions—and no one noticed until it was too late.

8 min read Nov 23, 2025

a glowing countdown clock with an illuminated quantum circuit beside a gold Bitcoin on cracked marble under soft cinematic light.

Analysis

Bitcoin wallets will be cracked by 2028… and other quantum resistant marketing myths

Bitcoin’s 2028 doomsday clock: How ‘Quantum-Proof’ marketing manufactures FUD.

6 min read Nov 5, 2025

DeFi

What’s happening to DeFi? $231M was just drained but $19M clawed back

Balancer's exploit met a rare win via StakeWise, while Stream's $93M loss and xUSD depeg expose the breaking points.

6 min read Nov 5, 2025

$a cracked padlock and glowing cables spilling coins from a breached vault in a neon-lit server room as the fractured Balancer logo flickers amid dramatic, soft-glow lighting.$

DeFi

How 11 audits couldn’t stop Balancer’s $128 million hack redefining DeFi risks

As Balancer’s TVL plummets, the DeFi community grapples with restoring trust amidst recurring breaches.

6 min read Nov 3, 2025

hacker den with dramatic LED strip lighting and soft glow where a hooded figure faces three monitors of charts and a vortex icon, while neatly stacked Ethereum coins gleam on the wooden desk.

Hacks

This millionaire crypto hacker continues to freely cash out a year later

A year after the radiant hack, the thief is peeling funds again. Bridges, DEX hops, then Tornado. Modular deposits, measured timing, and real money still moving.

4 min read Nov 3, 2025