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Figure Technology suffers data breach, exposing personal customer details
1+ hour, 44+ min ago (435+ words) ShinyHunters hackers leaked user data after a social-engineering attack on a Figure employee and the company reportedly refused to pay a ransom. Figure Technology, a blockchain-based lending firm, was reportedly hit by a data breach after attackers manipulated an employee…...
Ethereum Leaders Propose New System to Protect AI Privacy
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (413+ words) Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation's head of AI have proposed a method to keep users' AI API calls private while still allowing punishment for abuse. Ethereum Foundation AI lead Davide Crapis and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin have…...
North Korea Linked Hackers Deploy New Crypto Malware
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (429+ words) Mandiant, which operates under Google Cloud, has tracked the suspected North Korean scammers since 2018, and AI has helped scale up malicious attacks since November 2025. North Korea-linked threat actors are escalating social engineering campaigns targeting cryptocurrency and fintech companies, deploying new…...
Ethereum Foundation teams up with SEAL to combat wallet drainers
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (394+ words) SEAL and the Ethereum Foundation created a Trillion Dollar Security dashboard to track Ethereum security as part of efforts to fight wallet drainers. The Ethereum Foundation is sponsoring crypto security nonprofit Security Alliance (SEAL) to "track and neutralize" crypto drainers…...
OpenClaw AI hub faces wave of poisoned plugins, SlowMist warns
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (437+ words) SlowMist flagged 472 AI skills containing malicious code, as plugins and extensions increasingly become a target for hackers seeking access to the devices of cryptocurrency investors. A plugin hub associated with the open-source artificial intelligence agent project OpenClaw has become a…...
Crypto.com Boss Rolls out Agentic AIs with ai.com Launch
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (110+ words) Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek has rolled out a new agentic AI platform, ai.com, which was aired in a Super Bowl advertisement to millions on Monday. Crypto.com CEO unveils new AI agents to millions during Super Bowl Crypto....
Wallet tied to Infini exploiter resurfaces to buy Ether dip for $13M
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (498+ words) The wallet linked to Infini's $50 million exploit reactivated after months of silence to buy the Ether dip amid a broader market downturn. A wallet linked to the $50 million Infini exploit has become active again nearly a year after the breach,…...
Payy Launches As Ethereum’s First Privacy-Enabled EVM L2
1+ week, 2+ day ago (503+ words) Payy says its new layer-2 network routes ERC-20 transfers through privacy pools by default without requiring new wallets or tokens. Crypto project Payy, which operates a privacy-focused wallet alongside a crypto banking card, has launched an Ethereum layer-2 network designed…...
Whale's $9B Bitcoin Sale Not Quantum Concern: Galaxy Digital
1+ week, 3+ day ago (477+ words) The firm addressed speculation that a multibillion-dollar client trade was motivated by concerns over Bitcoin's resistance to future quantum computing advances. Galaxy Digital denied that a $9 billion Bitcoin sale by one of its clients was linked to quantum computing risks,…...
Wrench Attacks Increased by 75% in 2025, Resulting in $41M Losses: CertiK
1+ week, 4+ day ago (369+ words) The blockchain security auditor said violence against wallet holders has become a "core threat vector in the crypto ecosystem," marking a sharp rise from 2024. Physically targeting crypto users or their relatives, colloquially known as "wrench attacks," significantly increased in the…...