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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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Crypto Firms Rush to Quantum-Proof Wallets as Computing Threat Looms

Cryptocurrency companies are accelerating wallet upgrades to defend against quantum computing threats, though security g...

May 10, 2026, 06:01 PM
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Mozilla Patches 14 Months of Firefox Fixes in 30 Days Using Anthropic's Claude

Mozilla fixed 423 Firefox security bugs in April using Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, matching 14 months of prior wo...

May 10, 2026, 04:01 PM
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SecurityDeFi

Hacker Drains $5.9M From TrustedVolumes on Ethereum

An attacker withdrew $5.9 million from TrustedVolumes, an Ethereum liquidity provider, in an early-morning exploit. 1inc...

May 9, 2026, 08:01 PM
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Quantum Computing Threat to Bitcoin and Ethereum Moves Closer, Security Firms Warn

Blockchain security researchers are raising alarms about quantum computing's threat to Bitcoin and Ethereum, citing a na...

May 8, 2026, 03:06 PM
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DeFiSecurity

Tydro Pauses Markets Pending Security Feeds After Suspected Attack

Tydro, the largest DeFi protocol on Kraken's Ink Layer 2, remains paused after Chaos Labs flagged a suspected nation-sta...

May 8, 2026, 12:07 PM
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Zcash Plans Quantum-Resistant Upgrade, Targets Full Implementation by 2027

Zcash will launch quantum recoverable wallets within approximately one month to protect user funds during future cryptog...

May 8, 2026, 12:05 PM
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Solv Protocol Migrates $700M Tokenized Bitcoin Tech From LayerZero to Chainlink

Solv Protocol will shift its tokenized Bitcoin infrastructure from LayerZero to Chainlink, citing security concerns foll...

May 8, 2026, 12:01 PM
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Adam Back: Bitcoin Outpacing DeFi on Security, Attracting Institutional Buyers

Blockstream CEO Adam Back told Consensus Miami 2026 that Bitcoin is winning a security competition against DeFi platform...

May 7, 2026, 09:01 PM
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SecurityDeFi

TrustedVolumes Confirms $6.7M Exploit, Opens Talks With Attacker

TrustedVolumes, a liquidity provider affiliated with 1inch, confirmed Tuesday it lost $6.7 million to an exploit. The co...

May 7, 2026, 04:01 PM
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CryptoProcessing by CoinsPaid Achieves CCSS Level 3 Security Certification

CryptoProcessing by CoinsPaid, a regulated crypto payment gateway, has earned CCSS Level 3 certification for its institu...

May 5, 2026, 10:08 AM
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Ripple Shares North Korean Hacking Intelligence With Crypto Firms

Ripple has begun distributing internal threat intelligence on North Korean hacking operations to other cryptocurrency fi...

May 5, 2026, 10:06 AM
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North Korea Denies Role in Major Crypto Hacks as TRM Labs Links DPRK to Losses

North Korea rejected allegations of state-backed cryptocurrency theft Tuesday, even as blockchain analytics firm TRM Lab...

May 4, 2026, 10:06 AM
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