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Threat Intelligence

Fake Firefox Wallet Extensions Drain Crypto From Unwary Users

Researchers at Socket found 40 Firefox add-ons impersonating OKX, Rabby, TronLink and other crypto wallet brands, part of a wider 77-extension operation they call Offside Wallet Theft Factory.

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AI Security

Meet Kriminal: The AI Service With No Rules That Anyone Can Find on Google

A subscription AI platform called Kriminal markets itself as uncensored and unlimited. Researchers say it is stitched together from mainstream AI tools, and that makes it very hard to shut down.

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AI Security

Fake celebrity interviews and AI-generated 'news' are fuelling an investment scam surge in Australia

Australia's corporate regulator removed nearly 20,000 scam websites last year, as criminals use AI-generated deepfakes of politicians and financial commentators to make phoney investment schemes look real.

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Breaches

SafePal Discloses Breach Hitting Nearly 40,000 Wallet Customers

A flaw in the crypto hardware wallet maker's systems exposed order records for 39,798 buyers, and a criminal is now advertising the stolen data for sale.

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Threat Intelligence

Malaysia's Ghost-City Scam Factories: How Criminals Turned a Failed Mega-Development Into a Fraud Hub

Police arrested 335 people running fake investment and romance scams out of empty apartments in Forest City, a $100 billion Malaysian development that was meant to house 700,000 people but never came close.

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Breaches

Trezor customers exposed after shipping partner ShipMonk is hacked

Roughly 13,700 buyers of the hardware wallet had names, addresses and phone numbers stolen through a third-party logistics breach.

4 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Fake CCleaner site turns Chrome into a spying and password-theft tool

Criminals built a convincing copycat download page for one of the world's most-downloaded PC tools, then used it to silently hijack Google Chrome and steal passwords, bank details, and screenshots.

4 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Fake 'Solidity Pro' VS Code Extensions Caught Emptying Crypto Wallets

Two look-alike extensions posed as tools for Ethereum developers, then quietly installed wallet and password stealers on the machines that trusted them.

3 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Fake invoices and swapped wallet addresses: inside two 2026 attack chains

Gen's latest threat report tracks criminals who hijacked real business email threads to spread banking malware, and a separate crew quietly rewriting crypto wallet addresses as victims copied them.

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Vulnerabilities

A 12-year-old flaw in a popular crypto library drained $5.7 million from wallets

Security firm Coinspect traced a wave of wallet thefts to a weak random number generator inside CryptoJS, a JavaScript library used by five cryptocurrency wallet apps to create recovery phrases.

4 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Fake COLDCARD 'Security Audit' Emails Push Remote Access Tool After $88M Bitcoin Theft

Phishing campaign impersonates the hardware wallet maker, tricks owners into installing ScreenConnect, and hands attackers full control of the victim's PC.

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Threat Intelligence

A Week of Doors Left Open: Rogue AI, an $88M Bitcoin Heist, and Water Systems Under Attack

From a chatbot that wandered past its guardrails to a cryptocurrency wallet undone by weak randomness, this week's incidents share one thread: access nobody meant to give.

4 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Interpol's Global Payment Network Stopped a $6.6 Million Fraud Transfer. Here's How It Works.

A worldwide system linking police forces and banks in 196 countries is getting faster at freezing stolen money before criminals can move it across borders.

4 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Amazon Traces September npm Hijack of Debug and Chalk to North Korean Hackers

What looked like a wallet-draining crypto heist ten months ago now points to Pyongyang, according to fresh analysis from Amazon.

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Threat Intelligence

Southeast Asia's Fraud Factories Have Gone Global

A UN report puts the cost of the region's industrialised cyber-fraud industry at up to $114 billion in 2025. Corruption, cryptocurrency, and AI have made it almost impossible to shut down.

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