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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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OpenAI Grants European Firms Access to Advanced AI Models via Cybersecurity Program

OpenAI announced a cybersecurity program granting select European companies early access to its latest AI models. The in...

May 15, 2026, 04:01 AM
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Blockaid Flags Active Exploit Draining $132,700 from ShapeShift FOX Colony

Blockchain security firm Blockaid identified an active smart contract exploit on Arbitrum draining approximately $132,70...

May 15, 2026, 02:01 AM
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SOL Strategies Acquires Darklake for Solana Privacy Enhancement

SOL Strategies announced the acquisition of Darklake, a zero-knowledge privacy platform, to integrate privacy features i...

May 15, 2026, 12:08 AM
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Bitcoin Owner Recovers $395K After Brute-Force Password Recovery Effort

A bitcoin owner successfully recovered $395,000 in BTC from an inaccessible Blockchain.com wallet after eight weeks of b...

May 14, 2026, 10:12 PM
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Ripple CTO Emeritus Warns of Escalating XRP Impersonation Scams

Ripple's CTO Emeritus has issued a public warning about fraudulent schemes targeting XRP holders, citing a pattern of ba...

May 14, 2026, 08:02 PM
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AI Assistant Helps User Recover 5 Bitcoin From Forgotten Wallet

An X user recovered 5 Bitcoin using Claude after the AI assistant helped locate and restore an old wallet backup file. T...

May 14, 2026, 06:08 AM
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Bitcoin Owner Claims Claude AI Recovered Lost Wallet Worth $400K

An X user claimed this week that Anthropic's Claude AI helped recover a lost Bitcoin wallet containing $400,000 in BTC, ...

May 14, 2026, 04:01 AM
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Arkham Maps Iran Central Bank Crypto Wallets in Public Database

Blockchain analytics firm Arkham published a searchable public map linking crypto wallets to Iran's central bank, exposi...

May 14, 2026, 03:02 AM
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Anthropic Invalidates Unauthorized Tokenized Share Sales; Token Price Falls 45%

Anthropic issued a statement declaring that unauthorized third-party sales of tokenized company shares are void and do n...

May 14, 2026, 01:01 AM
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Roaring Kitty's X Account Hacked, $2.8M Drained in Meme Coin Dump

Keith Gill's verified X account was compromised on May 11, with attackers using the profile to launch and promote a Sola...

May 13, 2026, 11:13 PM
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Researcher Links Teen to $19M Crypto Theft Network via Discord

On-chain investigator ZachXBT connected a teenager named Dritan Kapllani Jr. to a social engineering theft ring that sto...

May 13, 2026, 11:09 PM
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AirBit Club Fraud Victims Can Now Claim Compensation From Remission Fund

A remission fund has opened to compensate victims of the AirBit Club fraud scheme. The fund represents a recovery effort...

May 13, 2026, 10:01 PM
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