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- BTCPay Founder Says Theft Reports May Involve Older Versions
Nicolas Dorier said the project's public servers running version 2.4.7 were not attacked as the team investigates administrator access.
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- Solana Foundation Urges Ubuntu Validators to Mitigate Unpatched Kernel Flaw
Tim Garcia said the kernel issue has been fixed, but Ubuntu has not released its patch. His temporary guidance covers IPv4-option packets and two TCP features.
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- Secret Service Continues Binance Probe After Rapid Freeze of Stolen Crypto
Investigators and industry partners froze a large amount of stolen cryptocurrency within minutes of the Oct. 29 incident. Binance estimated its losses at $6.3 billion.
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- Polymarket Sets $3.9 Million in Compensation After Script Attack
The company put attack-related compensation at $2.7 million and pause-related losses at $1.2 million, with 95% of affected wallets reimbursed by Oct. 30 afternoon.
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- Cursor Expands Claude Code Malware Warning to Two Versions
The releases were listed for about 11 hours on Oct. 29; the injected code tried to install SSH access and persistence on affected computers.
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- Binance Hack’s 18,270 Bitcoin Remained in 19 FBI-Listed Addresses on Sunday, Nov. 1
A balance snapshot valued the Bitcoin at about $1.4 billion. The FBI urged providers to block transactions involving the listed addresses or derived from them.
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- North Korea's Share of Crypto Hack Losses Reached 63% in 2025
The share rose from 7% in 2020. Eleven governments said North Korean hackers stole at least $1.65 billion in the first nine months of 2025 to support weapons programs.
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- OKX Says It Began LLM-Based Penetration Testing More Than a Year Ago
OKX Star said Sunday that OKX detects and responds to cyberattacks each month, including advanced persistent threat attacks targeting the crypto industry.
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- South Korea’s Financial Regulator to Review Security With Five Bank Chiefs
The meeting is set for 8 p.m. ET Wednesday, Nov. 4 (1 a.m. UTC Thursday, Nov. 5), with AI-related threats on the agenda.
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- Core DAO Says b14g Exploit Did Not Compromise Core Network
b14g put the unauthorized withdrawal at about 97 million CORE. Core DAO said most of the tokens remain on the chain.
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- Trump Says U.S. Would Contact North Korea If Binance Hack Is Confirmed
The FBI has attributed the Oct. 29 incident to North Korea and valued the crypto assets involved at more than $6 billion.
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- TRM Estimates North Korea-Linked Crypto Theft at $7.4 Billion
Without the $6.36 billion Binance theft, North Korea-linked losses accounted for 45% of the global total in TRM’s tally.
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- Intersect Urges Cardano Operators to Patch Critical Linux Flaw
The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8. Ubuntu fixes remained in progress, while patched AlmaLinux kernels were available for testing.
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- Waters Seeks Stronger Crypto Safeguards After Binance’s $6.3 Billion Hack
Binance said it set aside more than $6.34 billion and had about $3 billion frozen on-chain as withdrawals remained suspended.
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- Binance Incident Affecting $6.3 Billion Renews Wallet Security Concerns
A separate Polymarket incident led to at least $2.7 million being stolen from users’ wallets. Experts disagree on whether exchange accounts or self-custody wallets offer greater protection.
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- Floin Says Cyberattack Took Its App and Website Offline
The Liechtenstein-based platform received authorization as a crypto-asset service provider under MiCA on June 10, 2026.
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- EqualAI CEO Urges Task-Specific AI Permissions as Ledger Lists 59 Cases
A security control flagged 11 cases, and the median time from an incident’s first action to public disclosure was 70 days.
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- TrapDoor Campaign Targets Solana Developers With More Than 34 Malicious Packages
The campaign involved more than 384 malicious package versions. The packages appeared on npm and PyPI, and the campaign was first disclosed May 24.
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- Foundation Warns of Phishing Emails From Hijacked Domains at Other Firms
The company said the emails did not come from its official domains.
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- DNS Hijacking Redirects Visitors From Flap, Stonk to Malware Pages
Visitors to several Web3 project websites were sent to hacker-designed pages containing malicious software.
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- Binance Finds More System Vulnerabilities in Security Probe
The review includes weaknesses in Binance's systems and on a compromised computer beyond the laptop first identified.
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- Chainalysis Says Attackers Accessed Some Customer Data
Accessed records included names, email addresses, user IDs and organizational roles. The company said it has found no evidence so far that passwords or case materials were accessed.
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- CrowdStrike Ties VAPOR PANDA to AI Campaign Targeting More Than 200 Organizations
The campaign began Oct. 17 and ran over an 11-day window, with post-exploitation activity confirmed at nine organizations.
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- Chainalysis Says AI-Driven Attack Exposed Customer Data
Exposed information included customer names, email addresses, user IDs and job titles. Chainalysis said it found no evidence that passwords, MFA keys or sensitive investigation data were accessed.
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- Allium Says Data Shares Pass Historical Checks After Security Incident
The data-share incident remained open on Oct. 30, with the Allium App, Explorer UI and Explorer Queries still in partial outage.
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- Trump Says Investigators Are Probing North Korea Link to Binance Hack
Earlier blockchain analysis pointed to the Lazarus group and traced stolen TRX through a bridge in Bitget Wallet.
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- Trump Says U.S. Is Investigating North Korea’s Role in Binance Theft
Trump declined to confirm North Korean responsibility. Chainalysis and TRM Labs have attributed the attack to North Korea-linked group TraderTraitor.
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- Suspected North Korea-Linked Hacks Account for 89% of 2026 Crypto Hack Losses
From 2021 through Oct. 29, 2026, suspected North Korea-linked hacks accounted for $13.24 billion of $22.34 billion in reported crypto hack losses.
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- Polymarket Says It Repaid 689 Wallets After Malicious Script Breach
The platform put total reimbursements at about $3.9 million, with payments to 37 more wallets underway as their accounts are verified.
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- TRM Labs and Chainalysis Link Binance Theft to TraderTraitor
About $6.36 billion in crypto moved from Binance wallets across 10 blockchains. Binance estimated the incident’s total impact at about $6.3 billion and said about $3 billion was frozen on-chain.
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- Check Point’s Q3 Outlook Sets $655 Million to $685 Million Revenue Range
The forecast also calls for $2.43 to $2.53 in non-GAAP earnings per share as the company looks for stronger firewall appliance performance.
· Business
- Japan Asked U.S. AI Firms for Cybersecurity Access.
Tokyo separately directed ministries Oct. 26 to accelerate AI-assisted vulnerability checks and supply-chain cyberattack monitoring.
· Technology
- Binance hack puts customer fund protection in focus as blockchain growth hinges on utility
Owen Lau urged stronger safeguards for customer funds after the reported $6.3 billion Binance hack, while identifying tokenization and payments as foundations for blockchain’s longer-term growth.
· Insights & Views
- Binance Plans Full Proof-of-Reserves Report by Monday, Teng Says
Richard Teng said Binance hopes to release an initial version sooner and aims to resume withdrawals by Sunday, Nov. 1.
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- FBI Coordinates With Partners to Assess Binance Hack’s Potential Impact
The bureau said it has taken note of the attack and is working to understand its scope.
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- Keystone Says It Is Improving Security of Breach Lookup Page
The hardware wallet maker also cut the retention period for shipping information to 90 days and lets customers request deletion after delivery.
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- Keystone Halts All Wallet Shipments and Isolates Affected Stock
The hardware-wallet maker cut logistics-data retention from 180 days to 90 and lets users request deletion after receiving an order.
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- Bybit Says Security Reports Did Not Affect Its Systems or User Assets
The exchange said trading and withdrawals continued without interruption as reports involving multiple crypto platforms circulated.
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- Cursor Removes Claude Code Extension After Warning of SSH Backdoor
Cursor said the extension may have affected up to 5,000 users and urged an update to version 2.1.314.
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- Elon Musk Replies to Binance Co-Founder’s Email Warning With Two Emojis
Changpeng Zhao urged followers to avoid email links and attachments. Binance estimated the security incident’s total impact at about $6.3 billion.
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