Tagged: hack

October 30, 2026 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On October 29, 2026, attackers drained an estimated (and unprecedented) $6.3 billion from Binance hot wallets across roughly nine to eleven blockchains in under four hours, with the bulk of the activity compressed into about 20 minutes. The exchange, the world’s largest by volume, confirmed… Read More

October 30, 2026 @ 9:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange with daily trading volume hovering around $14 billion, is scrambling to mitigate the fallout from an epic hack that allegedly pilfered billions of dollars in value from the platform. Initial reports indicate that North Korea is once again behind… Read More

October 30, 2026 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On October 29, 2026, Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, suffered a security incident in which attackers drained roughly $6.3 billion to $6.36 billion in digital assets from its hot wallets across approximately ten blockchains. Blockchain analytics firms, including TRM Labs and… Read More

October 30, 2026 @ 12:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has confirmed that an unauthorized external party accessed an internal mobile groupware system used exclusively by its employees, resulting in the exposure of personal information. The digital assets focused company discovered the irregular access on Tuesday and immediately reported the… Read More

October 29, 2026 @ 6:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

U.S. authorities have taken down the primary domain of Virtualine, a specialized hosting provider marketed as “bulletproof” infrastructure for cybercriminals seeking to evade detection and enforcement actions. On October 27, 2026, the FBI’s Washington Field Office, working with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern… Read More

October 27, 2026 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hardware wallet manufacturer Keystone has expanded its disclosure of a website security breach first detected earlier this month, revealing that attackers obtained not only certain customer records but also a specialized authentication key used to confirm that its physical devices are genuine. The company detected… Read More

October 27, 2026 @ 6:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Initia, the modular layer-1 blockchain designed to support a network of interconnected rollups, paused both its main chain and associated rollups on Friday, October 23, 2026, after a security incident. The halt took effect at 15:41:30 UTC. In an official statement posted on X, the… Read More

October 26, 2026 @ 1:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On-chain investigator ZachXBT has raised fresh questions about the Indian cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX, asserting that a deposit address previously linked to a 2025 security incident remained active for months afterward and continued handling user funds. In a post on X dated October 22, 2026, ZachXBT… Read More

October 25, 2026 @ 10:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Keystone Hardware Wallet, a maker of air-gapped devices designed for self-custody of cryptocurrencies, publicly disclosed on October 24, 2026, that an unauthorized party accessed its official website and obtained certain customer information. The company stated that it first noticed the intrusion on October 20 and,… Read More

October 25, 2026 @ 1:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A severe security flaw has emerged in PHP, the programming language that underpins roughly 70 percent of websites with a detectable server-side component. Two related vulnerabilities, each assigned a critical severity rating of 9.2 out of 10, allow unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution… Read More

October 25, 2026 @ 12:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Qubic layer-1 network has resumed normal operation following a brief halt triggered by a wallet-seed vulnerability that allowed an attacker to empty 1,404 accounts of roughly 2.94 trillion QU tokens, valued at approximately $1.4 million at the time. Project operators known as Computors approved… Read More

October 22, 2026 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The PHP Foundation has acknowledged that indecision and limited resources led to a structural failure that delayed a fix for a critical security flaw first identified in 2024. The admission came in a detailed statement issued hours after the project released emergency patches for two… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Belgian hardware wallet company Ngrave disclosed that attackers compromised a third-party service responsible for delivering push notifications in its LIQUID companion app. The breach allowed the criminals to send authentic-looking security alerts to customers on October 17, 2026. The messages claimed that a user’s portfolio… Read More

October 19, 2026 @ 6:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Qubic’s layer-1 blockchain suspended all transaction processing after an attacker drained 1,404 user wallets of roughly 2.94 trillion QU tokens in under two hours. The project’s own incident update places the theft between 23:42 UTC on 17 October and 01:26 UTC on 18 October 2026…. Read More

October 18, 2026 @ 9:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget stated on October 17, 2026, that it will end services for a limited group of users as part of a one-time action, while affirming that the broader platform will keep running normally. In its official message on X, the Seychelles-based firm described… Read More

October 11, 2026 @ 6:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adam Back, the longtime Bitcoin cryptographer whose early work was referenced by Satoshi Nakamoto and who has repeatedly denied speculation that he is Bitcoin’s creator, recently sharpened his critique of Ethereum’s foundational design. In response to warnings from Ethereum researchers that artificial intelligence could potentially… Read More

October 9, 2026 @ 11:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Ledger is investigating reports of loss of funds. This is based on the company’s own statements, as well as external comments and reporting. In a post on X, Ledger stated that they are reviewing pilfered funds in Southeast Asia from users who purchased their products… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 7:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

The chief executive of Revolut for Western Europe, Béatrice Cossa-Dumurgier, says the company will cover the cost of replacing identity documents for impacted users of the digital banks. This is according to French broadcaster BFM TV According to reports, in September, someone controlling an email… Read More

October 6, 2026 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT disclosed on October 5, 2026, that he spent weeks inside a Chinese organized crime network he says has moved more than $1 billion in stolen cryptocurrency for North Korea’s Lazarus Group across several exploits. In a 12-part thread on X, he described… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 1:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

September 2026 was the worst month of the year for crypto theft, and it was not close. Immunefi reported that about $742 million was lost across 33 hacked entities, enough for the month alone to account for roughly a third of all money stolen in… Read More