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FCC robocall rule could make phone accounts a richer target for crypto attackers
The FCC’s robocall proposal could turn phone accounts into richer targets for SIM swaps, recovery abuse, and crypto theft.
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Ethereum’s Jaredfromsubway MEV bot drained after approving its own $7.5M theft
Attackers used fake markets to turn Jaredfromsubway.eth’s trading approvals into a $7.5 million allowance drain.
DeFi
The next DeFi drain could come from legacy contracts everyone forgot
Raydium’s legacy exploit shows how legacy DeFi contracts can stay live, forgotten, and vulnerable after protocols move on.
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DeFi’s old hack vectors are fading – But the new risk can hit six chains at once
The good news is that bridge hacks and flash-loan attacks are fading; the bad news is that protocol logic bugs are becoming much harder to contain.
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AI-assisted Zcash flaw exposes the supply integrity gap an emergency fork could not fully close
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.
Bankruptcy
Mt. Gox-linked wallets moved 10,422 BTC, worth roughly $739 million as BTC price slides
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.
DeFi
Have AI agents made the entire $148 billion DeFi sector unsafe?
Researchers say agents can find vulnerabilities faster, raising pressure on protocols to move beyond point-in-time audits.
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Polymarket suffers live POL drain as team rules out feared contract exploit
Team statements point to a Polymarket private key compromise rather than core contracts or user funds.
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THORChain exploit turns emergency chain halt into a DeFi trust test
A suspected multichain THORChain exploit and emergency halt have shifted attention from the immediate loss figure to DeFi’s cross-chain trust model.
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Scams
Ripple insider warns XRP holders as fake airdrop scams surge across XRPL
AI
OpenAI’s new cybersecurity push has a lesson for crypto: stop waiting for the hack
Crime
IRL crypto threats: Physical “wrench attacks” have led to over $100 million in losses since January alone
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