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Robert Barr never had to leave his cell to try to steal £2 million in cryptocurrency. While he was serving time at HMP Edinburgh for smuggled phones and fraud, he used an illicit handset to direct two accomplices towards a victim’s home.
Mining giant BitRiver’s founder Igor Runets is facing a bankruptcy procedure initiated by a major Russian bank whose claims exceed $9 million. The crypto entrepreneur was detained earlier this year over alleged tax evasion as well as large-scale fraud with damages amounting to $12 million.…
The expanded AI protections in Bitget Wallet highlight the growing need for advanced security measures as phishing tactics become more sophisticated.
Three bugs—spanning denial-of-service and privacy issues rather than coin theft—have all been patched, with the most serious capable of halting a miner’s ability to build new blocks.
Bitcoin Core developers have broken their silence on three previously patched security vulnerabilities, including a high-severity flaw that could potentially prevent miners from producing new Bitcoin blocks.
Security Disclosure: Bitcoin Core node software maintainers revealed three vulnerabilities that were reported during 2025 and later patched in October 2025. Mining Risk: A high-severity flaw created mempool inconsistencies by removing transactions without clearing related descendants.
Suiball's closure highlights the vulnerability of projects reliant on ecosystem support and the growing security concerns in the hardware wallet industry.
OP_CCV embeds contract state directly into Taproot output keys and enforces valid state transitions onchain. This makes it possible to achieve stateful contracts and compact fraud proofs.
XRP holders are facing an escalating security threat on social media, as fraudulent accounts increasingly exploit the community’s interest in …
Bitcoin Core disclosed three previously patched security vulnerabilities, including a high-severity bug affecting block template creation.
Robert Barr was jailed for eight years for orchestrating an attempted £2 million cryptocurrency theft from his prison cell.
Robert Barr was sentenced to eight years in prison by the High Court in Glasgow after pleading guilty to involvement in serious organised crime and an attempted theft of up to £2 million in cryptocurrency.
Apple’s latest iOS 27.2.1 security update has reportedly failed to patch the worse_query vulnerability that could expose cryptocurrency wallet credentials, despite addressing nine other security flaws. The researcher behind the exploit, known as forcequitOS, said on November 10 that the…
Scammers flood XRP community with millions of fake reward and airdrop offers.
The case highlights the resilience of self-custody in crypto security, while underscoring the risks of physical attacks on asset holders.
Robert Barr planned to have accomplices force a crypto investor to install remote-access software so he could drain the wallet from prison.
The wallet flagged about 37,000 signing requests a week for phishing in Q3 and said better monitoring likely contributed to the increase.
Bitget Wallet has expanded its AI-powered threat detection after average weekly phishing-related detections rose 7.4-fold between the second and third quarters of 2026. In a Nov. 11 announcement shared with crypto.news, Bitget Wallet said that the expansion covers fraudulent websites,…
Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier’s warning that everyone will eventually be hacked came after attackers put hidden components inside genuine hardware wallets to capture recovery phrases. The incident brings the security question beyond the private key stored in a chip. A…
The SEC filed 348 actions in fiscal 2026, down from 456 a year earlier. Cases included alleged Bitcoin mining fraud and an FTX audit settlement.
South Korea’s Financial Security Institute has suffered a cyberattack that exposed hundreds of employee records and documents belonging to dozens of financial companies, less than two weeks after cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb reported a separate security breach. According to a November…
The latest laundering technique echoes the 2025 Bybit hack.
Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier has faced criticism from the cryptocurrency community after warning that everyone will eventually be hacked, a statement that has raised questions about the security assurances offered by hardware wallet manufacturers. During a Bloomberg Crypto interview on…
SEC enforcement actions fell nearly 24% to 348 in fiscal 2026, the lowest since 1991, as Paul Atkins defended the agency's focus on investor fraud.
Across Protocol regained control of its across.to domain after a social engineering attack on Namecheap. Attackers redirected users to a phishing site on Tuesday, and some users reported drained wallets. Across says all affected users will be made whole and a post-mortem is coming.
Initia said an attacker exploited compromised cloud credentials to move $3.27 million in crypto assets, with about $2.16 million remaining frozen on its halted network.
Federal prosecutors sought forfeiture of cryptocurrency allegedly taken through romance fraud targeting people on dating sites and Facebook. The Massachusetts case followed failed withdrawals from fake investment platforms and efforts to trace payments made by victims.
Names, addresses, contact details, and taxpayer identification numbers may have been exposed but...
The hack highlights vulnerabilities in crypto exchanges, potentially escalating geopolitical tensions and prompting stricter regulatory measures.
NEAR Protocol has launched a new hackathon track focused on building autonomous agents, which could significantly impact the blockchain landscape.