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Tech

Crypto’s next billion-dollar hacker may move at superhuman speed

Anthropic’s new Claude Fable 5 puts powerful cyber tools behind safety filters. DeFi, already hit by more than $840 million in hacks this year, is one of the industries with the most to lose if the filters fail.

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Policy

U.S. House bill would erect crypto-theft task force across law enforcement agencies

New legislation from a bipartisan duo would set up a multi-agency group under the U.S. attorney general to take a lead on cryptocurrency theft cases.

Representative Lance Gooden, a Texas Republican (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Tech

Humanity's $36 million exploit tied to compromised laptop hosting a 'multisig' wallet

The compromised laptop held enough multisig keys to take over the project's bridges on two chains, a basic security failure for a startup backed by Pantera and Jump Crypto.

A hooded figure sits in front of a laptop screen in a darkened room. (Kartik Programmer/Unsplash)

Finance

Aave chief defends protocol's 'resilience' after $8.45 billion bank run

The founder of the largest DeFi platform blamed "third-party” entities for decentralized finance’s vulnerabilities, while independent data highlights severe gaps in Aave’s own risk architecture.

Stani Kulechov, Aave Labs (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Tech

AI exposed a massive flaw in top crypto network and experts warn banks could be next

After an AI model helped uncover a four-year-old flaw in Zcash, security researchers warn that similar bugs may be hiding across crypto and traditional financial systems.

A computer screen with code. (Pexels/Pixabay)

Finance

Wall Street’s trillion-dollar dilemma: Why AI-powered hackers are keeping big banks off the blockchain

CertiK CEO and co-founder Ronghui Gu says April was the worst month for DeFi in four years with exploits on 27 out of 30 days.

CertiK's Ronghui Gu (Ronghui Gu for CoinDesk)

Tech

Solana, Sui and Aptos wallet data targeted in TrapDoor package attack

The campaign targets crypto, DeFi, AI and security developers with fake tooling packages to steal wallets, SSH keys, GitHub tokens, cloud credentials and browser data.

Hacker facing screens with lines of code (Boitumelo/Unsplash)

Finance

Toddlers learn by falling: Why DeFi's $20 billion TVL drop is just a market stress-test

DeFi Technologies president Andrew Forson says the stablecoin layer is thriving, with more than $150 billion in U.S. Treasuries backing coins like USDT and USDC.

Andrew Forson, DeFi Technologies (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Finance

Echo Protocol suffers $76 million exploit in eBTC minting attack on Monad

The Bitcoin-focused DeFi protocol suffered an attack whereby about 1,000 unauthorized eBTC $77 million were minted on the Monad blockchain

Hacker sitting in a room (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

Tech

Crypto security is turning into an AI arms race as agents may overwhelm compliance teams

AI agents and automated payments could reach a scale that crypto monitoring systems built for human-paced markets cannot handle, Elliptic CEO Simone Maini warned.

Elliptic CEO Simone Maini (Elliptic)