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Parked Coldcard loot begins moving as attacker routes $1.6M in stolen Bitcoin to Ethereum
Bitquery traced 20.45 BTC through 34 Bitcoin swaps, and the main destination later held roughly 5 ETH less.
Liam 'Akiba' Wright 2 min read
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Governance
Ontology forces urgent node upgrade after restarting chain hit by malicious activity
Ontology version 3.1.5 is mandatory for compatibility, while the attack path and wider service recovery remain undisclosed.
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TAC blockchain remains frozen for over 10 days after a massive exploit forces a 1.26 billion token bailout
One transaction emptied 28.6% of supply from the bonded pool, while 1.66 billion attacker-held TAC remains unresolved.
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Technology
A layer-1 blockchain froze for 4 hours to stop a $4.9 million hack, then claimed it was just an upgrade
The network stayed secure at the consensus level, but the emergency response jailed validators and disrupted exchange transfers.
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Leaked compliance records shatter anonymity of 291 crypto users by matching names directly to wallet activity
Copied support records exposed varying combinations of identity, location and compliance data, while private keys and customer funds remained safe.
Outage
Stopping a blockchain doesn’t always recover stolen funds – What actually happened when 3 networks pulled the plug
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.
AI
OpenAI update shows new safeguards would have cut off 700 rogue AI agent swam 24 hours faster
New postmortems estimate about 700 agents joined the intrusion, while OpenAI’s largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold.
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How a hacker reused the same authorization message 1,490 times to trigger massive crypto payout loops
The Aug. 30 postmortem traces the replay flaw to mismatched serial-number checks and a 105-minute response gap.
DeFi
Cross-chain oracle compromise triggers liquidations and frozen vaults across multiple DeFi networks
Full Sail confirmed vault losses, Virtue reported 47 liquidations and Volo paused withdrawals while Sui and IOTA remained online.
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Cronos validators erase transaction history to contain massive $75 million lending protocol exploit
DeFi
DeFi protocols just lost $83 million to an attack financial regulators already warned about
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Cosmos misjudged a critical bug for 4 months before hackers stole nearly $6 million across 6 chains
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