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10/19/2026 03:45 PM
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The arrest count is striking, but the scale of the online infrastructure removed may be the bigger story. An international effort against West African scam networks has resulted in 28 arrests, while technology companies say they removed more than 3.7 million accounts, pages and groups linked to fraudulent activity. TL;DR: The US Justice Department says […]
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10/19/2026 03:30 PM
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Crypto’s third-quarter security bill came to $1.18 billion, but the headline total is only part of Hacken’s latest warning. The firm recorded 107 incidents between July and September, with smart-contract exploits taking a much larger share of losses than they did three months earlier. TL;DR: Hacken reported $1.18 billion stolen across 107 incidents in Q3 […]
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10/19/2026 03:15 PM
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A hardware wallet’s strongest cryptography offers little protection when an attacker can interfere with the device before its owner even switches it on. That is the uncomfortable lesson from the CryptoBilis case now facing Ledger customers in Southeast Asia. TL;DR: Investigators have linked roughly $90 million or more in reported crypto losses to tampered wallet […]
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10/19/2026 02:45 PM
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Addresses associated by on-chain analysts with miner MARA Holdings have sent approximately 1,000 BTC to Binance and Gate over five days, putting the company’s treasury movements back in focus. TL;DR: Lookonchain-linked analysis values the transfers at about $82.8 million. Exchange deposits can precede selling, but the transfers do not establish that MARA sold the coins. […]
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10/19/2026 02:30 PM
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An unusual piece of cryptography history has gained an answer. Anthropic says Claude reconstructed how the original seed values behind several widely used NIST elliptic curves were generated, resolving a question that had attracted suspicion for more than two decades. TL;DR: Claude identified a process involving the C library’s lrand48 generator and Unix timestamps. Anthropic […]
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10/19/2026 02:15 PM
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XRP Ledger validators are advancing a maintenance amendment while the network’s proposed native lending features face a more complicated path through governance. TL;DR: The fixCleanup3_4_0 amendment has cleared the 80% support threshold in recent validator snapshots, beginning the sustained-consensus period required for activation. The separate lending amendments have not reached the same level. The cleanup […]
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10/19/2026 01:45 PM
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An early Bitcoin holder has moved approximately 411.45 BTC from a wallet associated with 2013, attracting fresh attention as traders monitor old coins returning to activity. TL;DR: The coins were worth roughly $34 million at recent market prices. A transfer from a dormant address is visible on-chain, but it does not prove that the owner […]
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10/19/2026 01:30 PM
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Cysic has suspended its cross-chain bridge after an attacker created 10 million unauthorized CYS tokens on BNB Chain and converted part of the supply into assets moved toward Ethereum. TL;DR: On-chain analysis traced the sale of about 7.2 million CYS and the receipt of 306.6 ETH, valued at roughly $727,000 at the time. The bridge […]
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