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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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US Treasury Sanctions 45 More Prince Group-Linked Targets in Third Round

The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned four individuals and 41 entities tied to Cambodia-based Pr...

Nov 6, 2026, 05:58 PM
Prince GroupOffice of Foreign Assets Control
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Vitalik Buterin Urges Exchanges to Prioritize Security After $6.3B Binance Hack

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said crypto exchanges should prioritize surviving cyberattacks over competing for ma...

Nov 6, 2026, 05:08 PM
Vitalik ButerinBinance
SecurityAdoption
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Gnosis Pay Confirms Consumer-Card Data Breach, Says Funds Unaffected

Crypto card provider Gnosis Pay said hackers accessed customer information in the system behind its consumer cards, with...

Nov 6, 2026, 04:49 PM
Gnosis PayChainalysis
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Binance and Deribit Revoke SignalPlus API Keys After Intrusion Traced to Fake Teams Invite

Binance and Deribit revoked API keys linking SignalPlus to customer accounts on November 5 after SignalPlus reported an ...

Nov 6, 2026, 04:38 PM
BinanceDeribit
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Binance Hack Proceeds Shift Into Bitcoin as $50M of Stolen XRP Is Swapped

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic says about $50 million of XRP stolen in the October Binance hack has been swapped, mo...

Nov 6, 2026, 02:59 PM
BinanceElliptic
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Treasury and Fed Withdraw Proposal to Lower Crypto Travel Rule Threshold to $250

FinCEN and the Federal Reserve withdrew a 2020 proposal that would have lowered the cross-border Travel Rule threshold f...

Nov 6, 2026, 02:48 PM
FinCENFederal Reserve
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South Korea's GOPAX Suspends Trading and Withdrawals After Hacking Threat

South Korean exchange GOPAX halted trading and standard withdrawals on November 6 after receiving a hacking-threat email...

Nov 6, 2026, 02:28 PM
GOPAXBinance
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Binance Hack: $6.36 Billion Drained in 20 Minutes After Attacker Preparation Period

Binance hot wallets lost approximately $6.36 billion across ten blockchains in an attack that TRM Labs says unfolded ove...

Nov 6, 2026, 02:19 PM
BinanceTRM Labs
SecurityRegulation
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Former FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Stealing $2.47 Million in Crypto From Investigations

Former FBI agent Patrick Steven Yaroch pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering after using wallet credentials ...

Nov 6, 2026, 10:58 AM
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Bitcoin Developer Proposes 'Quantum Landmines' to Deter Theft From Vulnerable Wallets

Bitcoin Core developer Cory Fields proposed a mechanism in a November 4 post to the Bitcoin Development Mailing List tha...

Nov 6, 2026, 08:28 AM
BitcoinCory Fields
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Unknown Bitcoin User Inscribes Full U.S. Constitution On-Chain for About $83

An anonymous user broadcast a 44.4 KB Bitcoin transaction embedding the full text of the U.S. Constitution, paying about...

Nov 6, 2026, 03:03 AM
BitcoinBitcoin Core
ExchangesSecurity
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Binance Posts Daily Net Inflows After Withdrawal Restart, but Seven-Day Outflows Remain Large

Binance recorded a positive daily net inflow after resuming withdrawals following a hack estimated at roughly $6.3 billi...

Nov 5, 2026, 09:28 PM
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