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CLOSEDQUORUM Runs Its Own Attack Without Asking Anyone
Cisco Talos has identified what it calls the first fully autonomous command-and-control implant: malware that polls a panel of AI models to decide its next move and never checks back with its operator.
Sports Cars, Private Jets, Mansions: How a $240 Million Bitcoin Theft Ended in Arrests
A group of crypto criminals stole $240 million in Bitcoin from a single victim, then spent so openly that investigators barely had to look.
Liquid Network Attacker Sends Back Most of the Stolen Bitcoin, Keeps $47M
A bug in the Elements software behind Bitcoin's Liquid sidechain let someone drain nearly 4,000 bitcoin. Most of it came back the next day. Roughly 598 bitcoin, worth about $47 million, has not.
Trezor's email system hijacked to send fake 'security alert' phishing to customers
Criminals used a breached third-party email provider to send phishing from a real Trezor address, weeks after a separate shipping-partner breach ballooned to 81,000 customers.
Trezor Customers Caught in a Second Wave of ShipMonk Data Leak
The crypto hardware wallet maker says 67,000 more U.S. buyers had their names, addresses and phone numbers exposed through its old shipping partner. The wallets themselves are unaffected.
Booby-trapped Composer packages hijack Vietnamese streaming sites to hit old iPhones
Thirteen fake theme libraries on Packagist quietly loaded ad-fraud scripts and pushed spyware at visitors running unpatched iOS, researchers say.
Cronos halts and restarts blockchain after $74M Tectonic lending exploit
An attacker inflated the price of a small token by 100 times in 20 minutes, then borrowed real assets against it. Validators froze the chain and rolled it back.
Cosmos EVM Bug Drained Six Blockchains Over Five Days in August 2026
A critical balance-handling flaw in the shared Cosmos EVM module let attackers siphon funds from six chains between 20 and 25 August 2026, and the advisory landed without a CVE or CVSS score.
Nineteen Browser Extensions Caught Emptying Crypto Wallets
Researchers found 18 Chrome add-ons and one Edge add-on that quietly stole wallet keys and drained funds, in a campaign that may have run for months.
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.
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.
Fake celebrity interviews and AI-generated 'news' are fuelling an investment scam surge in Australia
Australia's corporate regulator removed 19,400 scam websites last year, as criminals deploy AI-generated deepfakes of politicians and financial commentators to make phoney investment schemes look real.
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.
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.
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.