An unpatched Electrum wallet vulnerability allowed malicious servers to manipulate RBF fee bumps, redirecting bitcoin payments to attacker addresses.
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The Binance Pool shutdown arrives November 10, ending cloud mining and transaction acceleration. See what miners must do before then.
Discover the details of the Liquid Network hack. A white hat attacker stole 4,000 Bitcoins but returned most of the funds to force a bug bounty payment.
The COLDCARD seed flaw theft has climbed to 1,367 BTC across three attack waves and 4,585 wallets, with the third wave using harder-to-trace P2WSH addresses.
A 2021 COLDCARD build error shrank seed entropy from 128 bits to 40, letting attackers drain 594 BTC from 500 wallets in just 15 minutes.
Bithumb loses $130M after accidentally airdropping 2,000 BTC to 635 users. Learn how a "won-to-bitcoin" typo triggered a 20% flash crash and instant fortunes.
PayPal introduces "Pay with Crypto," allowing US merchants to accept over 100 cryptocurrencies, with funds converting to fiat or PYUSD at low transaction fees (0.99% for first year).PayPal, Crypto Payments, Cryptocurrency, Merchants, Bitcoin, Ethereum, PYUSD, Stablecoin, Transaction Fees, US
Spectra Ransomware, an evolution of Chaos, encrypts Windows files with AES-RSA, demands $5,000 in Bitcoin, and uses double extortion tactics with system evasion
Iranian national Sina Gholinejad pleaded guilty for his role in the Robbinhood ransomware attacks targeting U.S. cities like Baltimore.
German authorities shut down the crypto-swapping platform eXch, a hub for laundering illicit funds, and seized €34 million in cryptocurrencies after tracing stolen Bybit funds.
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-27840) in ESP32 microcontrollers threatens billions of IoT devices and the security of Bitcoin wallets. Exploits range from private key theft to forged transactions.
A critical SSRF vulnerability (CVE-2025-32013) has been patched in LNbits, the Lightning Network wallet server. Learn how attackers could exploit LNURL authentication to access internal services and how to protect your systems.
Learn about LCRYX ransomware, a malware threat that encrypts files and demands Bitcoin for decryption. Stay informed and protected.
Learn about the shocking hack of the SEC's X account and its impact on the cryptocurrency market. Find out the role of Eric Council Jr. in the fraudulent Bitcoin ETF announcement.
Learn about the 2016 Bitfinex hack and the sentencing of Ilya Lichtenstein for his role in one of the largest cryptocurrency heists in history.
Discover the critical vulnerability CVE-2024-38365 in btcd, an alternative Bitcoin implementation, that could have led to a hard fork of the blockchain.
The recently sensationalized Bitcoin inscriptions have been reported as a cybersecurity vulnerability, designated as CVE-2023-50428