2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (297+ words) The dispute between Blockstream and the party claiming to be a white-hat hacker has taken a sharper turn, according to Samson Mow’s latest update. The hacker has accused Blockstream of serious security failures, while claiming that the company allocated only…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (297+ words) Cryptonews.net KYC data is an irresistible honeypot for hackers, and we must change how it is collected A dark-web service is reportedly offering more than 153 million American and Canadian driver’s license records for sale, and the FBI is investigating…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (260+ words) LayerZero introduced Akita on Sept. 9, a new polynomial commitment system designed to protect zero-knowledge proofs against potential attacks from quantum computers. Introducing Akita, the first production-ready, lattice-based polynomial commitment scheme for post-quantum security.It’s the first major step in making…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (301+ words) The Alby Bitcoin vulnerability centers on outdated builds of Alby Hub, the self-hosted node software that powers Lightning wallets and payment infrastructure for the platform’s users. Alby has acknowledged the issue directly, confirming that older versions of the software carry…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (365+ words) The Bitcoin Lightning software's maintainers say four image tags delivered unpatched binaries while reporting version v26.06.7 at startup, leaving affected users with another task: check the image digest and download a corrected image if it differs. Some Core Lightning operators who…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (804+ words) Spain’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Bit2Me has launched a separate company to help courts, police and financial institutions trace, seize, store and liquidate cryptocurrency linked to investigations. According to a statement from Bit2Me, the new unit, Bit2Shield, has been legally registered as CryptoShield S.L....

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (535+ words) Aave governance is considering an emergency Guardian powers proposal that would allow vulnerable lending pools to be frozen quickly during active security threats, without requiring immediate public write-ups. It is a slightly uncomfortable proposal, and that is exactly why it…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (595+ words) R3E Network has resolved all 11 findings from a systematic audit of neox-rs, the Rust-based Neo X full-node client, including four classified at P1 severity. Separately, R3E shipped a security-focused release for the Neo Decompiler, hardening its parsing, output sanitisation, and release pipeline. The…...