6+ hour, 32+ min ago   (664+ words) Despite billions spent on cybersecurity, companies keep getting beaten by simple social engineering. Teams pour money into technical safeguards, audits, and code reviews while neglecting operational security, device hygiene, and basic human factors. As more financial activity moves on-chain, that…...

13+ hour, 40+ min ago   (746+ words) X rolls out Smart Cashtags to fix ticker confusion as EU probes algorithms, bots flood crypto posts, and Musk promises open-sourced ranking code. Social media platform X announced plans to introduce "Smart Cashtags," a feature designed to clarify financial and…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (381+ words) Huang's message is clear: the threat is real, the timeline is not decades away, and the shift toward quantum-safe infrastructure must begin now. Compounding this urgency is the accelerating pace of quantum innovation. IBM's recent advances in faster error-correction architectures…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (403+ words) Truebit's TRU token crashes over 99% after a 26 million dollar Ether exploit, extending a string of major DeFi security breaches despite falling aggregate losses. Truebit acknowledged "an incident of security involving one or more malicious actors" tied to a smart contract…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (418+ words) Gate launches GateAI, an in'app AI market assistant that explains price moves and sentiment with a verify'first, no'signals, no'predictions approach. The tool represents a departure from speculative signal bots, according to Gate, which described the assistant as a data-driven platform…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (559+ words) Barclays has made its first direct investment in a stablecoin-related company by becoming a stakeholder in U.S. stablecoin-settlement firm Ubyx. Without disclosing the exact details or nature of the investment, the multinational financial services company told Reuters that the move is…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (568+ words) A post-mortem report of the Dec. 27 exploit of the Flow blockchain has detailed a protocol-level exploit that allowed the attacker to duplicate fungible tokens and drain approximately $3.9 million in value. "The attack demonstrated significant technical sophistication. The attacker deployed over…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (586+ words) Venezuela-focused stablecoin neobank Kontigo has announced plans to compensate customers after over $340,000 in USDC was drained from customer wallets in a security breach. According to a Jan. 5 update, Kontigo confirmed that they "detected unauthorized access that affected the funds of…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (550+ words) MetaMask users are at risk of a new "2FA verification" phishing scam that steals their seed phrase under the guise of improving security. According to blockchain security firm SlowMist, MetaMask users are receiving a spoofed email that creates a false sense…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (543+ words) Crypto phishing losses plunged 83% to $83.85 million in 2025 from $494 million the previous year, according to a Scam Sniffer report. Victims fell 68% to 106,106 from 332,000 in 2024, with the largest single theft dropping 88.3% to $6.5 million from $55.48 million. Large cases exceeding $1 million declined 63.3% to 11 incidents…...