A pair of tightly executed cyberattacks have become milestones in cryptocurrency theft in 2026 due to their sheer size. These two incidents, targeting Drift Protocol and KelpDAO, account for roughly three quarters ...

Cyber-driven fraud – from investment schemes to business email compromise (BEC) to confidence and romance scams – accounted for almost 85% of the losses Americans suffered through fraud crimes last year, totaling ...

Wired writes (alternate source): Security researchers at Google on Tuesday released a report describing what they’re calling “Coruna,” a highly sophisticated iPhone hacking toolkit that includes five complete hacking techniques capable of ...

 Cybercriminals continue to target the cryptocurrency industry, this time with an exploit that affected the Balancer decentralized finance platform, with total losses exceeding $100 million and involving several exchanges that use the ...

 I recently came across a victim’s story, in how she was scammed online and ultimately lost all her cryptocurrency.  In reading the story, and extrapolating from my four decades of working against ...

DoJ, FBI, USSS yoinked USDT: Pretty girls plus investment fraud equals forfeiture recovery (eventually) ...

 As cryptocurrency becomes more popular and the adoption rises, we see a related increase in the number of cybercrimes, fraud, and malware schemes. Criminals like to hunt and plunder where there is ...

 This is how you handle cybercrime digital extortion! Coinbase was compromised by trusted 3rd party partners, which exposed customer data — but customer keys to their assets were still safe. The cyber criminals then ...

 More attacks targeting cryptocurrency users.  Microsoft has identified a new Remote Access Trojan, named StilachiRAT, that has sophisticated capabilities to remain stealthy and persistent so it can harvest crypto wallet credentials via ...

It looks like a very sophisticated attack against the Dubai-based exchange Bybit: Bybit officials disclosed the theft of more than 400,000 ethereum and staked ethereum coins just hours after it occurred. The ...