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Hinkal privacy protocol exploited for $820,000 as attacker funnels stolen funds through Tornado Cash

On July 3, 2026, attackers stole about $830,000 USDC from Hinkal, an on-chain privacy protocol, and used mixing and bridging ...

New research reveals the motivations and tactics used by call center fraudsters

A new study led by the University of Portsmouth lifts the lid on the tactics used by call center fraudsters in India, while ...

Prompt injection is exploiting enterprise AI's biggest design flaws by targeting agents, RAG pipelines and model routers

In 2025 and 2026, several independent sources have highlighted the same trend: Prompt injection remains one of the most ...
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On-chain investigators link KelpDAO and Humanity Protocol exploits to same attackers

The $292 million KelpDAO bridge exploit in April and the Humanity Protocol private key theft in June were already suspected ...
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Aave Price Prediction Hits $3,500 in Standard Chartered Call

Standard Chartered predicts Aave could rally 50x to $3,500 by 2030. The bank's mixed crypto track record adds important ...
Dark Reading

AI-Assisted Exploit Development Outpaces Scanner Detection

Attackers have reduced the time to develop an exploit for a known vulnerability from 125 days to a mere half a day, thanks to the use of AI-assisted development, leaving vulnerability scanners ...
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Echo Protocol Hack Autopsy: The $76 Million Exploit That Wasn’t Really a Hack

Echo attacker minted $76.7M fake eBTC using stolen admin credentials, not smart contract vulnerabilities. Curvance accepted fake collateral, allowing attacker to borrow and launder roughly $816K in ...
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Squid Says Core Protocol Was Unaffected by $3.2 Million Safe Exploit

What Happened in the Safe Module Exploit? A third-party Safe module carrying the Squid name was exploited across Ethereum and Base, draining approximately $3.2 million from 86 Safes in about two hours ...
Ars Technica

Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens millions of people using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and virtually all other ...
CoinDesk

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

Echo Protocol is the latest DeFi platform to be hacked, suffering an exploit worth around $77 million. The attacker took control of a compromised admin key to mint the tokens, before borrowing WBTC ...
Forbes

Microsoft Confirms Active 0-Day Exploit—Check Emergency Mitigation

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Microsoft confirms Exchange zero-day, CISA warns it's under active exploitation. Updated May ...
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Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections

A zero-day exploit circulating online allows people with physical access to a Windows 11 system to bypass default BitLocker protections and gain complete access to an encrypted drive within seconds.