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Smart-contract exploits, bridge hacks, phishing campaigns, and exchange breaches cost the crypto industry billions every year. Our security coverage reports each major incident as it surfaces — root cause where known, on-chain forensic trails, attacker addresses, fund flows through mixers and bridges, recovery efforts, and post-mortems published by the affected protocols and audit firms. We also follow the white-hat ecosystem, bug bounty programs at Immunefi and Code4rena, ongoing audits, and the security-tooling vendors (formal verification, runtime monitoring) working to reduce the next breach.

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Chinese National Extradited to US in $36.9M Cambodian Crypto Scam Case

A Chinese national was extradited from the Netherlands to Los Angeles on charges related to an alleged Cambodia-based cr...

Oct 24, 2026, 08:01 AM
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New York Seeks $1.3B From NovaTech Founders in Prayer-Group Fraud Case

New York's attorney general filed a court motion seeking $1.37 billion from NovaTech's founders following a 2025 liabili...

Oct 24, 2026, 06:02 AM
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New York Seeks $1.3 Billion from NovaTech Founders Over Prayer Group Scheme

New York's attorney general filed a motion seeking $1.37 billion from NovaTech's founders, who have fled the country, ov...

Oct 24, 2026, 06:02 AM
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Initia Halts L1 and Rollups After $2.6M Mint Exploit

Initia suspended its layer-1 blockchain and rollups on October 23 after security researcher Spreek reported an unauthori...

Oct 23, 2026, 11:05 PM
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New York AG Seeks $1.37B Judgment Against NovaTech Crypto Fraud Operators

New York Attorney General Letitia James has already secured nearly $6 million in settlements from four promoters of the ...

Oct 23, 2026, 10:07 PM
New York Attorney GeneralLetitia James
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CZ Warns AI Phishing Is Bigger Bitcoin Risk Than Cryptographic Attacks

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said AI poses a security risk to Bitcoin users primarily through social engineering and p...

Oct 23, 2026, 08:07 PM
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Bitcoin Core Ends Bug Embargo Policy as AI Accelerates Vulnerability Discovery

Bitcoin Core developers merged a policy change that lifts a months-long embargo on disclosing security flaws that AI too...

Oct 23, 2026, 05:04 PM
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New York AG Pursues $1.3B From NovaTech Founders After Default Judgment

New York Attorney General Letitia James won a default judgment against NovaTech founders and is seeking $1.3 billion in ...

Oct 23, 2026, 12:01 PM
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Colombian Crypto Broker Sentenced to 160 Months for $14.5M USDT Laundering

A Colombian crypto broker received a 160-month federal prison sentence for laundering $14.5 million in USDT through US s...

Oct 23, 2026, 10:06 AM
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CoinDCX Absorbs Losses From Failed Wallet-Sweeping Process

CoinDCX acknowledged Tuesday that a failed deposit-sweeping process caused losses the exchange absorbed internally. The ...

Oct 23, 2026, 07:06 AM
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Railway Platform Breach Linked to $371,000 Crypto Theft Across 19 Chains

Cloud deployment platform Railway disclosed a security breach on October 21 after detecting unusual activity in systems ...

Oct 23, 2026, 12:09 AM
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CoinDCX Confirms $16M USDT Loss From Compromised Legacy Wallets

CoinDCX admitted to a $15.99 million USDT loss from wallets compromised in July 2025, reversing an earlier denial of a f...

Oct 22, 2026, 10:01 AM
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