Follow crypto hack news, exploits, bridge attacks, protocol breaches, and security lessons from major incidents across Web3.
The AI-assisted discovery of a critical Orchard flaw shows crypto’s next security crisis may start in the base-layer systems that define valid money.
The transfer revived the bankruptcy overhang while BTC was already under pressure, but the watched threshold is onward routing to exchanges, custodians, liquidity providers, or repayment partners.
Researchers say agents can find vulnerabilities faster, raising pressure on protocols to move beyond point-in-time audits.
Team statements point to a Polymarket private key compromise rather than core contracts or user funds.
A suspected multichain THORChain exploit and emergency halt have shifted attention from the immediate loss figure to DeFi’s cross-chain trust model.
The warnings come as XRPL activity, institutional tokenization projects and XRP market interest give fraudsters more narratives to exploit.
OpenAI’s Daybreak may point to the crypto industry’s next security standard of becoming resilient before vulnerabilities are exploited.
Wrench attacks are forcing exchanges and holders to rethink protection as criminals target the people behind private keys.
Aave’s rsETH bad debt shows DeFi’s next security crisis rests in broken assumptions across bridges, governance, collateral listings, and risk controls.
