Blockstream is refusing to pay the Liquid attacker nearly 600 Bitcoin (roughly $50 million), escalating a dispute over how the crypto industry should reward partial restitution. The standoff follows an unusual recovery from the Sept. 6 exploit, when a vulnerability allowed the attacker to create about 4,000 unbacked L-BTC and withdraw roughly 3,996 real BTC through […]
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Binance Alpha uses two eligibility snapshots for swaps and refunds, while Kraken now supports only Ethereum-based NES.
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A malicious Super App bypassed stream liquidations before a Sept. 4 hotfix restored whitelisting and closed detected insolvent accounts.
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DOJ seized Telegram channels and two wallets while OFAC sanctioned Xinbi and the developers behind SafeW and XinbiPay.
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Even full recovery of the frozen funds would leave roughly 17.19 BTC for the community pool to replace.
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This follows last month's security breach at shipping provider ShipMonk, which exposed the personal information of Trezor customers.
Four tags served images that reported v26.06.7 without its fixes, prompting digest checks before planned source disclosure.
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The Sept. 7 return replenished the federation wallet, but Blockstream still listed a public bridge outage the following morning.
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The plan would move ONE to Ethereum after an exploit and rollback, while urging users to exit smart contracts before Sept. 10.
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Researchers examining the roughly $320 million Liquid Network incident have identified an alleged failure in the software’s transaction-validation cache, offering a more specific explanation for how unbacked tokens could be redeemed for real Bitcoin. Accounts also raise a deployment question. Mononaut said the exploited bug had entered Elements’ master development branch the previous week but […]
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The Liquid Network attacker said they would return most of the roughly 4,000 BTC once the software bug affecting the network is patched.
SideSwap says bug-created L-BTC passed a valid authorization as bridge nodes paused and reserve reconciliation became the restart test.
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The larger disclosure implies roughly 80,689 affected customers, though no combined total or row-level overlap check is public.
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Bitquery traced 20.45 BTC through 34 Sept. 2–3 swaps, and the main destination later held roughly 5 ETH less.
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Version 3.1.5 is mandatory for compatibility while the attack path and wider service recovery remain undisclosed.
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One transaction emptied 28.6% of supply from the bonded pool, while 1.66 billion attacker-held TAC remains unresolved.
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An emergency patch disabled binary-options settlement after an exploit, while about 1,980 ETH remained at an address linked by researchers to the incident.
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Copied support records exposed varying combinations of identity, location and compliance data, while private keys and customer funds remained safe.
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Cronos restored pre-exploit state, Ontology paused before a confirmed loss, and ICON halted after assets reached exchanges, exposing three different emergency powers and recovery risks.
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New postmortems estimate about 700 agents joined the intrusion, while OpenAI’s largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold.
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The Aug. 30 postmortem traces the replay flaw to mismatched serial-number checks and a 105-minute response gap.
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Full Sail confirmed vault losses, Virtue reported 47 liquidations and Volo paused withdrawals while Sui and IOTA remained online.
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The network-wide pause appears to have kept most affected assets on-chain, but users still lack a restart timetable or official accounting.
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The upstream fix reached release branches hours before the incident, while MANTRA says none of the tokens have been recovered.
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Ripple is moving to shrink the XRP Ledger’s (XRPL) attack surface as it prepares to expand native lending. The company has recommended removing more than 10,000 lines of unused XChainBridge code while Lending Protocol V1.1 undergoes an AI-only security review through Sherlock’s Audit Engine. The parallel efforts come as crypto platforms face renewed pressure to […]
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Version 1.22.3 now closes a 257-operation blind spot and a limited swap approval substitution.
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Mainnet is running on v8.4.0, while wallet addresses, transaction hashes, amounts and the attack path remain undisclosed.
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Affected users need a new recovery phrase and must move funds because an app update cannot repair a compromised seed.
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Core Lightning developers have asked node operators to make a security decision before they can fully assess the threat. An Aug. 23 message posted on Stacker News urged operators to install new binaries that fix multiple reported vulnerabilities. CLN told operators who decline the upgrade to run their nodes offline, and the team plans to […]
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Security firms CertiK and PeckShield estimate losses of around $8.7 million after an attacker manipulated the collateral price of MAMO.