Hacks
Polymarket suffers live POL drain as team rules out feared contract exploit
Team statements point to a Polymarket private key compromise rather than core contracts or user funds.
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THORChain exploit turns emergency chain halt into a DeFi trust test
A suspected multichain THORChain exploit and emergency halt have shifted attention from the immediate loss figure to DeFi’s cross-chain trust model.
Scams
Ripple insider warns XRP holders as fake airdrop scams surge across XRPL
The warnings come as XRPL activity, institutional tokenization projects and XRP market interest give fraudsters more narratives to exploit.
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AI
OpenAI’s new cybersecurity push has a lesson for crypto: stop waiting for the hack
OpenAI’s Daybreak may point to the crypto industry’s next security standard of becoming resilient before vulnerabilities are exploited.
Crime
IRL crypto threats: Physical “wrench attacks” have led to over $100 million in losses since January alone
Wrench attacks are forcing exchanges and holders to rethink protection as criminals target the people behind private keys.
DeFi
After the $16.5 billion in exploits, DeFi is now being forced toward the controls it once resisted
Aave’s rsETH bad debt shows DeFi’s next security crisis rests in broken assumptions across bridges, governance, collateral listings, and risk controls.
Wallets
Someone just drained long-forgotten dormant Ethereum wallets, and the cause may trace back years
Hundreds of long-inactive Ethereum wallets were swept into a tagged address while researchers and users still debate whether old keys, weak wallet tooling, or another exposure opened the door.
DeFi
DeFi lost $13B this month as the KelpDAO rescue shows both the best and worst of DeFi
The rescue effort that has already lined up tens of thousands of ETH also exposes the uncomfortable reality that DeFi’s biggest crises still depend on multiple factors.
Scams
OpenAI’s new image model shows why crypto scams are about to get much worse
A crypto founder says he nearly got hacked after joining what looked like a Microsoft Teams call with a familiar Cardano Foundation contact.
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Scams
Major crypto developer tool just turned laptops into launchpads to hijack GitHub accounts
People
Apple’s new CEO inherits a multimillion‑dollar crypto scam problem in the App Store
Hacks
North Korea hit crypto for $500M+ this month — and the $6.75 billion threat is not over yet
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