Revolut hackers demand $3M in Monero, threaten data sale
The group targeted crypto-heavy customers using blockchain analysis, and 680 accounts had identity documents and transaction histories exposed in the breach.
The group targeted crypto-heavy customers using blockchain analysis, and 680 accounts had identity documents and transaction histories exposed in the breach.
Evin McMullen of Billions argues the real security crisis is not the $320 million exploit but the identity honeypots every exchange, on-ramp and wallet maker keeps filling, soon to be multiplied by…
A 0x analysis of 84,163 hooks across six chains classified over half as malicious, and the flagged pools are winning route comparisons only to pay traders far less at execution.
Only S$1.69M of the S$4.906M haul has been recovered, a gap that frames a story bigger than the caning: known crypto holders can be physically coerced into transfers that police struggle to reverse.
Reopening public node access is operational progress, not a security all-clear: aelf's full post-incident review is still unpublished, and node-level credential exposure remains unresolved.
Bandwidth is solvable at ~8 MB a day, but mobile Silent Payments still require trusting the indexer that delivers scan data. A missing tweak can hide a payment silently.
The dollar loss is modest at $770K, but the absurdity ratio is the real story: a 25-cent deposit minting 46 billion unbacked tokens pushes institutional flow further toward audited bridge incumbents.
Even after team cuts and a v3 rebuild, revenue never recovered from the Nov. 2025 $128M hack. A Sept.
CoinEx joins BitMart and BitMEX in 2025's exchange shutdown wave, a tell that mid-tier venues are being squeezed by shrinking retail spot volume and rising compliance costs.
The exposed files include passport details, home addresses and Bitcoin activity, and the attackers are now threatening publication unless a ransom is paid, with the UK ICO opening an investigation.
The filing pins the funds inside a $1.5B pipeline routed through unhosted wallets, an Iranian exchange, and IRGC-linked accounts, with two Chinese firms named as the primary facilitators.
The trade doubled the initial outlay in a single hour, a return profile more common in memecoin launches than in sustained markets and a reminder of the asymmetric risk on both sides.
After more than a year of inactivity, the two-address pattern points to one holder re-entering, with the deposit landing directly on a major exchange rather than a private venue.
The 10,000 BTC demand is the headline number, but the breached records on high-profile Revolut clients are the real liability: legal exposure, regulatory scrutiny, and a blow to the fintech's…
The 20% white-hat offer is the novel beat, but the gap between 46.1 billion syBTC minted and the $336,000 actually extracted is the structural read for cross-chain bridges.
The 15 BTC recovery is not a final loss tally: liquidity providers still await exposure figures, compensation criteria and a status update on Symbiosis's paused native bridge.
The token's rapid collapse after launch highlights the persistent rug-pull risk in politically themed meme coins, even as broader meme activity on Base draws fresh retail attention.
Open-source projects and pre-2027 hardware lines are not exempted, and ENISA's central portal routes every filing to multiple national CSIRTs at once, turning wallet security into a permanent…
Offline operation and open-source code support inspection, but unvalidated entropy and no independent audit limit the design for significant funds.
Fraudulent record requests from a spoofed government email domain extracted KYC docs, IBANs and full Bitcoin transaction histories, a counterparty failure landing mid-US bank charter push.