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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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Cosmos Labs Urges EVM Chains to Halt After Security Incidents Hit MANTRA, TAC, KiiChain

Cosmos Labs issued an urgent recommendation for EVM chains to halt operations following security incidents affecting MAN...

Aug 25, 2026, 09:08 PM
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Term Finance Shuts Meta Vaults After $8.5M Exploit

Term Finance permanently closed its Meta Vaults and revoked their DAO governance powers following an Aug. 23 exploit tha...

Aug 25, 2026, 09:02 PM
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Crypto Fund Manager Convicted of Wire Fraud for $1M Investment Scheme

Japheth Dillman was convicted of wire fraud for soliciting nearly $1 million from investors in Block Bits Capital by fal...

Aug 25, 2026, 03:16 PM
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Las Vegas Businessman Convicted in $24 Million Crypto Ponzi Scheme

A federal jury convicted Las Vegas businessman Brent Kovar of fraud and money laundering for operating Profit Connect, w...

Aug 25, 2026, 01:02 PM
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Ledger Patches Ethereum Signing Flaw That Could Mask Transaction Substitution

Ledger released a firmware update addressing a vulnerability in its Ethereum app that could allow users to sign transact...

Aug 25, 2026, 05:15 AM
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BlackRock, Coinbase Back $15M Bitcoin Quantum-Security Consortium

Nine institutional firms including BlackRock, Coinbase, and Strategy formed the Bitcoin Security Consortium on July 23, ...

Aug 24, 2026, 12:02 PM
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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev's X Account Hacked to Promote Fake Token

Hackers compromised Vlad Tenev's X account to promote a token called Vladhood falsely tied to Robinhood Chain. The post ...

Aug 24, 2026, 09:02 AM
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Term Finance Loses $8.5M to Attacker Who Bought Governance Control for 2 ETH

An attacker purchased voting power in Term Finance for approximately 2 ETH, then used that control to drain $8.5 million...

Aug 24, 2026, 07:22 AM
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BitMEX Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged 622 BTC Seizure During Server Outage

BitMEX is defending against a lawsuit alleging that its internal trading desk exploited a server outage to access custom...

Aug 23, 2026, 08:01 PM
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Term Labs Loses $8.5M in Governance Exploit on Strategy Vaults

An attacker exploited governance controls in Term Labs' strategy vaults and drained approximately $8.5 million in user f...

Aug 23, 2026, 01:02 PM
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Thailand's SEC Files Criminal Complaint Against Bitkub Over Concealed Hack

Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission filed a criminal complaint against Bitkub exchange and two former director...

Aug 23, 2026, 09:02 AM
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Sandbox Disables Base and BNB Bridging After Exploit Mints Unbacked SAND

The Sandbox halted bridging on Base and BNB Chain after an exploit minted unbacked SAND tokens, affecting less than 0.01...

Aug 22, 2026, 06:08 PM
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