France Logs 77 Crypto Kidnappings as Wrench Attacks Surge 70%
French Interior Minister Nuñez reported a sharp year-on-year jump from 45 cases in 2025, with around 200 arrests so far as emergency security measures for crypto figures begin to bite.
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French Interior Minister Nuñez reported a sharp year-on-year jump from 45 cases in 2025, with around 200 arrests so far as emergency security measures for crypto figures begin to bite.
The Humanity Protocol exploit carried roughly $31M of that total, by itself accounting for over a third of June's on-chain theft across 40 incidents.
The threat is shifting from protocol exploits to single-decision attacks on individual holders; a few pre-send verification habits and offline address checks close most of the gap.
The move is broad-based: $2.24T market cap down across majors, Fear & Greed in extreme fear at 23, and Q2's $775M in stolen crypto is the second-cheapest quarter to attack on record.
A four-year telecom KYC retention window would bundle names, IDs, and service history onto phone numbers that already unlock exchange and wallet recovery — and the FCC's own filing asks whether that…
The threat spreads offline via USB and .lnk shortcuts, then runs bundled Tor to reach a hidden-service C2 — clipboard swap plus seed-phrase theft is the actual loss vector, not just an address swap.
Crypto's biggest hacks are no longer coming from smart-contract bugs — they're coming from operational and human…
An Ethereum researcher leading the Foundation's Kohaku privacy initiative says accounts on Ethereum can begin hardening…
Quantstamp's investigation into the June 8 Humanity Protocol H token incident is public, and the firm's findings point…
A four-year dormant bug in Zcash's shielded-pool cryptography — discovered by AI, not a human auditor — reminds the market that 'private by design' is a promise, not a guarantee.
Not a smart-contract bug — a single developer laptop compromised by malware exposed the admin hot wallet plus six Safe owner keys across Ethereum and BSC, draining over $31M.
The attacker is swapping stolen $H straight into $ETH in real time — a textbook exit-liquidity drain that turns a smart-contract bug into an instant market crash for everyone holding the token.
Orchard's privacy shield means a counterfeiting flaw cannot be ruled out retroactively, and the market is treating that uncertainty as if it had already happened.
The flagged USDC and USDT are issued on JuCoin's own JuChain — the same closed-loop tokens that won't drain anywhere if withdrawals stay frozen.
Capex is crowding out rate-cut oxygen while an AI-assisted Zcash Orchard flaw shows the next crypto security crisis may live in the base layer.
The same engineer who used Anthropic's Opus 4.8 to surface a four-year-old Zcash flaw says he is queuing Monero and other privacy coins — and the disclosure-only playbook is now under market test.
A four-year-old Zcash flaw surfaced by an AI model sends the same warning to every bank and protocol still running unverified code: the defender has to be right every time, the attacker only once.
The bug is patched, but Shielded Labs admits there is no cryptographic way to prove it was never exploited — that uncertainty, not the flaw itself, is what crashed ZEC and crowded traders into a…
The bug lived undetected for four years and let a hacker print unlimited ZEC; Hayes calling his exit after a 30% drop is the sentiment line, but the supply-integrity question is what the rest of the…
The flaw was theoretical-cum-practical: an AI audit surfaced a soundness break in the proof system that, unpatched, would have eroded the entire shielded supply.