Security

Security

Policy

Crypto Use in Terror Financing Rises, but Is Still Relatively Small: Singapore

"As a global financial centre and transport hub with a significant migrant workforce, Singapore remains a potential source of funds for terrorists and terrorist organisations abroad," the report said.

Singapore, view of Marina Bay with Gardens By The Bay manmade trees in the background (SoleneC1/Pixabay)

Policy

WazirX Files Police Complaint After $230M Hack, Engages With India's Cyber Crimes Unit

WazirX said "many exchanges" were "cooperating" with them and that their immediate plans included "tracing the stolen funds, recovering customer assets, and conducting a deeper analysis of the cyber attack."

New Delhi, India (Unsplash)

Finance

Ironblocks' 'Venn' Network Aims to Keep Malicious Transactions From Ever Hitting Blockchains

The Israeli firm's Venn security network uses a network of operators to seek out and freeze suspect transactions before they execute.

Surveillance (Milan Malkomes/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Worldcoin Hires Former Google, X and Apple Execs to Beef Up Privacy, Security

Tools for Humanity (TFH), a contributor to the Worldcoin project, hired four executives to advance its mission to ensure a more just economic system, the company said on Tuesday.

An inside view of the Orb, Worldcoin's custom hardware that makes cryptographic IDs based on iris scans. (Worldcoin)

Finance

Crypto Sleuth Ogle Proposes Security-Centric 'Glue' Blockchain

The upcoming layer-1 takes a hands-on approach to ensuring project security.

The Glue homepage (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Your Crypto Project Needs a Sheriff, Not a Bounty Hunter

Avi Eisenberg’s centi-million dollar exploit of the decentralized Mango Markets trading platform revealed the perverse incentives of bug bounties.

Still from Sergio Leone's 1965 classic spaghetti western "For a Few Dollars More," where Clint Eastwood plays an antihero character with an unorthodox sense of justice. (Wikimedia Commons)

Tech

Patched Cosmos Bug Could've Put $150M At Risk, Says Firm That Reported It

The reentrancy bug was discovered by Asymmetric Research, a core contributor to the Wormhole interoperability protocol.

Artistic rendering of the GitHub page where the Cosmos "reentrancy vulnerability" was described. (GitHub)

Finance

Ether Could Avoid Designation as a Security With Centralization Risk Easing, JPMorgan Says

Staking platform Lido’s share in staked ether has continued to fall, reducing concerns about concentration in the Ethereum network, the report said.

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Opinion

Must Bitcoin ‘Drop Ideals’ of Decentralization to Achieve Mass Adoption?

Key management is crucial to crypto maintaining decentralization. But, as hacks and exploits have grown in number, the dream of self-custody has become more difficult to maintain.

(Kelly Sikkema/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

How the Bitcoin Halving Could Affect Network Security

After the block reward drops to 3.125 bitcoins, miners could power down their less efficient machines.

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