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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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BTCPay Server Hack Drains Merchant Hot Wallets Tied to Pre-2.4.2 Versions

BTCPay Server, the open-source Bitcoin payment processor, has warned operators after reports of attackers withdrawing fu...

Nov 2, 2026, 09:08 PM
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Binance Warns of Scams After $6.3 Billion Hack as Withdrawals Resume in Phases

Binance co-founders Changpeng Zhao and Yi He warned users this week that scammers are targeting victims of the exchange'...

Nov 2, 2026, 07:09 PM
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EU Entity May Have Lost $106M From Exchange Accounts, ZachXBT Traces Route

An EU-based entity may have lost more than $106 million across several centralized exchange accounts, according to on-ch...

Nov 2, 2026, 05:29 PM
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XRP Ledger Amendment to Close PaymentBurn Minting Flaw Targets Nov. 4 Activation

The XRP Ledger's fixCleanup3_4_0 amendment would stop delegated PaymentBurn permissions from minting trust line and MPT ...

Nov 2, 2026, 05:28 PM
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Binance Says $6.34 Billion Hack Losses Covered From Its Own Balance Sheet

Binance said it allocated $6.34 billion from corporate treasury to replenish user funds after a breach disclosed October...

Nov 2, 2026, 05:18 PM
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Trade.xyz Restores GitBook Docs After Unauthorized Activity, Keeps Link Warning

Trade.xyz said it restored its GitBook documentation on November 2 after detecting unauthorized activity that morning, a...

Nov 2, 2026, 05:08 PM
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Mercado Bitcoin Suspends Deposits and Withdrawals After Security Incident, Losses Estimated Above $40 Million

Brazil's largest crypto exchange, Mercado Bitcoin, halted deposits and withdrawals on Monday after a security incident i...

Nov 2, 2026, 04:49 PM
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Trezor Raises Passphrase Limit to 128 Characters After Coldcard Losses

Trezor has expanded the maximum wallet passphrase length from 50 to 128 characters on supported devices. The change foll...

Nov 2, 2026, 04:09 PM
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Bitcoin Holds Near $78,000 as ETF Outflows and Binance Hack Weigh on Price

Bitcoin traded near $78,000 on November 2 after U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $643.3 million in net outflows on Friday...

Nov 2, 2026, 04:08 PM
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Mercado Bitcoin Halts Withdrawals After Roughly $40 Million Drained Across 10 Chains

Brazilian exchange Mercado Bitcoin paused deposits and withdrawals after wallets on at least 10 blockchains were emptied...

Nov 2, 2026, 03:59 PM
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Bitcoin Slips to $77,900 as Binance Outflows and ETF Selling Weigh on Price

Bitcoin fell 0.4% to around $77,900 after Binance customers pulled a net $3.64 billion in the first nine and a half hour...

Nov 2, 2026, 03:59 PM
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ZachXBT Links 27,553 ETH Overnight Buy to Suspected $106M Theft From EU Entity

On-chain investigator ZachXBT tied a 27,553 ETH purchase, initially read as a whale accumulation, to a suspected $106 mi...

Nov 2, 2026, 03:58 PM
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