hacking

Blockaid

2026-10-13 02:56:55

Blockaid co-founder says onchain security incidents have been hitting new monthly highs

Web3 security platform Blockaid is seeing a sharp rise in attack activity, according to co-founder Ido Ben-Natan. In a post on X, Ben-Natan said the number of onchain cybersecurity incidents has continued to set record highs month after month since the company released its first-half report in August. He said attacks on onchain infrastructure offer the highest returns for hackers when the goal is financial gain, and warned that the pattern could worsen as AI agents gain access to larger pools of capital. Fortune separately reported that Ben-Natan described Blockaid as being at its busiest point ever, citing a major increase in hacking activity as one reason. In a separate report, Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik said he expects trading crypto through AI agents, rather than by manually clicking through interfaces, to become the norm by 2028.

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Whale Movemen

2026-09-20 09:30:00

PA Daily: Strategy jumps 48% in a month as PlanB says Bitcoin bear market is over

PANews’ latest daily roundup spans market calls, security incidents, project updates, regulation and whale activity across crypto. Among the headline items, analyst PlanB said Bitcoin has moved above its 50-week moving average at about $79,000 and is now targeting the 100-week moving average near $89,000, arguing that the bear market has ended. On the equities side, Cointelegraph reported that MicroStrategy, trading as MSTR, was the best-performing Nasdaq-100 component over the past month with a 48% gain. The report also covered a major fraud case in Istanbul involving more than $3 billion, where authorities arrested 191 suspects in a cross-agency operation. In the U.S., Kalshi and Kraken parent Payward filed applications tied to perpetual contracts linked to individual stocks. Project-side developments included Universal’s planned wind-down over 60 days, MultiversX pausing its mainnet after confirming an attack attempt, and a dispute between Chengming Technology and Zhipu over alleged unauthorized data uploads by the ZCode client. Security and on-chain data featured heavily as well. Forbes reported that North Korea-linked hackers infected more than 30,000 devices through fake job offers and stole data from over 7,000 crypto wallets, with at least $10.71 million flowing to attacker-controlled wallets. PANews also highlighted losses at Fetch.ai and NuNet, several large leveraged positions, and comments from Michael Saylor, Vitalik Buterin, Peter Schiff, Jiang Zhuoer and ZachXBT.

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hacking

2026-09-05 05:36:48

Crypto Industry Hit by 50 Major Hacks in August, Losses Drop to $136.3M; AEREDIUM Launches AERSeal

In August 2026, the crypto industry suffered 50 major hacker attacks, a 67% increase from July, but total losses dropped to $136.3 million, down 49.5% month-over-month, according to PeckShield. The largest single loss was Tectonicfi, which lost around $74 million. Cronos, after pausing its network, saw only about $6 million transferred out. Meanwhile, digital asset security firm AEREDIUM introduced AERSeal, a threshold signature solution that replaces single private keys controlling privileged smart contract functions. The product splits key shares and stores them in hardware-authenticated secure enclaves, supporting Ethereum Virtual Machine and compatible chains. AERSeal does not reconstruct the full private key but generates signatures using the CGGMP24 threshold signature protocol. AEREDIUM founder and CEO Albert Dadon said the product can transfer minting, upgrade, and other permissions to threshold keys, with on-chain verification confirming the transfer. Clients can independently verify the threshold keys assigned to them. (Reported by Bitcoin.com News)

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hacking

2026-09-01 03:43:17

Crypto Industry Hit by 50 Major Hacks in August, Total Losses Reach $136M

Blockchain security firm PeckShield reported 50 major hacking incidents in the crypto industry in August 2026, up 67% from 30 in July. Total losses stood at approximately $136 million, down 49.5% month-over-month. The Tectonic.cro attack was the costliest event at around $74 million, ranking as the fourth-largest crypto theft of 2026.

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pokemon

2026-08-28 17:43:22

Pokemon's Official X Account Hijacked to Push Fake $POKEMON Token

The official Pokemon X account was compromised on Aug. 27, with hackers holding control for 30 minutes to promote a fraudulent $POKEMON token. The attackers leveraged the franchise's 30th anniversary to post bogus tweets and spoofed links, and the incident came during the Pokemon World Championships to boost credibility. The Pokemon Company regained control, deleted unauthorized posts, and distanced itself from any crypto project. No financial loss figures have been disclosed so far.

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cybersecurity

2026-08-25 08:47:19

TeamT5 says AI tools have more than doubled attacks by China-linked hackers

Taiwan cybersecurity company TeamT5 said attacks by Chinese state-backed hacking groups have risen by more than 100% after those actors began using AI tools to write malicious code and scan networks. The company specifically named DeepSeek among the models being used, and said the same groups have also used OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude Code. The report, cited by Techub News and attributed to The Decoder, points to a shift in how threat actors are operating: AI models are being applied directly to offensive tasks such as code generation and network reconnaissance. TeamT5’s warning centers on the pace of that change rather than on a single campaign. The item also referenced a UK study that found open-source models are rapidly catching up in cyberattack capabilities. Together, the two points suggest that offensive AI tooling is becoming more accessible across both commercial and open model ecosystems, even as the source note did not disclose details on the specific timeframe or campaigns involved.

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AI security

2026-08-24 10:10:08

AI Is Making Hacking More Accessible, and Bitcoin Red Team Is Racing to Find the Gaps

Artificial intelligence is lowering the barrier to entry for cyberattacks, and Bitcoin Red Team was formed to help Bitcoin projects get ahead of that shift. Calle, an anonymous Bitcoin software developer and member of the group, said the team has 20 to 25 volunteers and focuses on wallets, applications, services and other third-party software built on Bitcoin rather than the base protocol itself. Calle said the group has already covered nearly every important open-source project in the Bitcoin ecosystem through proactive scans, while also taking requests from projects that ask for reviews. He added that Chinese AI models are used more often in this work because US models tend to block cybersecurity-related tasks. He also said that AI is reducing the need for deep technical knowledge, making simple exploit workflows accessible to people who would not previously have been able to carry them out. In his view, Bitcoin and other crypto systems are likely to feel that change earlier than most industries because attackers have a direct financial incentive.

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Bybit

2026-08-07 16:41:50

Bybit Sues North Korea, Reconnaissance General Bureau and Lazarus Group Over $1.5B Hack

Bybit has filed a civil suit in U.S. federal court against North Korea, its Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) intelligence agency and the sanctioned Lazarus Group over a $1.5 billion hack. A federal judge has barred any transfer or dissipation of identified assets tied to the case while the suit proceeds, according to ChainCatcher.

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