Threat actors have successfully executed a novel prompt injection attack against artificial intelligence agents, draining approximately $200,000 in cryptocurrency. By using Morse code to bypass standard AI safety filters, an attacker tricked the Grok AI model and an autonomous wallet agent, Bankrbot, into authorizing a massive unauthorized transfer on the Base network. This incident exposes […]

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A 20-year-old California man was sentenced to 78 months in prison for serving as a home invader and money launderer in a criminal ring that stole over $250 million in cryptocurrency. [...]

In an unprecedented international law enforcement operation, authorities have dismantled at least nine overseas cryptocurrency scam centers, resulting in the arrest of 276 individuals. The coordinated effort, led by the FBI, Dubai Police, and the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, targeted transnational criminal networks running sophisticated “pig butchering” investment fraud schemes against American citizens. Threat […]

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A pair of tightly executed cyberattacks have become milestones in cryptocurrency theft in 2026 due to their sheer size. These two incidents, targeting Drift Protocol and KelpDAO, account for roughly three quarters of all recorded crypto losses through April, revealing a shift toward fewer, higher-dollar operations. Based on a report from TRM Labs, security researchers..

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BlueNoroff hackers used fake Zoom calls, ClickFix prompts, and fileless PowerShell malware to steal credentials from Web3 and crypto targets.

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A joint international operation involving U.S. and Chinese authorities arrested at least 276 suspects and shut down nine cryptocurrency investment fraud centers. [...]

Austrian and Albanian authorities dismantled a criminal ring accused of running a large-scale cryptocurrency investment fraud operation that caused estimated losses of over €50 million ($58.5 million) to victims worldwide. [...]

A malicious campaign by North Korean state actors saw a malicious npm package dependency slipped into a crypto trading agent by an AI coding agent, according to a new report by ReversingLabs. The incident highlights a troubling new frontier in software supply chain attacks: hackers targeting developers...and the AI tools writing their code.

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Crypto Custody Concentration hits $152.9B as institutions shift to derivatives, consolidating capital on top exchanges amid Q1 market slowdown.

​22-year-old Evan Tangeman of Newport Beach, California, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for laundering funds stolen in a massive $230 million cryptocurrency heist. [...]

A set of 26 malicious apps on Apple App Store impersonate popular wallets, such as Metamask, Coinbase, Trust Wallet, and OneKey, to steal recovery or seed phrases and drain them of cryptocurrency assets. [...]

A British man, believed to be the leader of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective, has pleaded guilty in the United States to charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. [...]

The New York Times has a long article where the author lays out an impressive array of circumstantial evidence that the inventor of Bitcoin is the cypherpunk Adam Back.

I don’t know. The article is convincing, but it’s written to be convincing.

I can’t remember if I ever met Adam. I was a member of the Cypherpunks mailing list for a while, but I was never really an active participant. I spent more time on the Usenet newsgroup sci.crypt. I knew a bunch of the Cypherpunks, though, from various conferences around the world at the time. I really have no opinion about who Satoshi Nakamoto really is.

Kyrgyzstan-based cryptocurrency exchange Grinex has suspended its operations after suffering a $13.7 million hack attributed to Western intelligence agencies. [...]

If you hold cryptocurrency, there's a very simple golden rule that you should always follow. Never hand over your seed phrase. Garrett Dutton, better known as G. Love - the front man of blues-hip-hop outfit G. Love & Special Sauce - has learnt that lesson the hard way. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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The Kraken cryptocurrency exchange announced that a cybercrime group is trying to extort the company by threatening to release videos showing internal systems that host client data. [...]

A malicious Ledger Live app for macOS available from Apple's App Store has drained approximately $9.5 million in cryptocurrency from 50 victims in just a few days this month. [...]

The fraud landscape has been changed by AI and cryptocurrency in a way that should concern organisations and individuals alike. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.