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Dodgy download and spoofed job ad led to $6.3 billion Binance hack: attacker offered fake software and fake job to infiltrate company wallets and steal billions

By Jacob Ridley Published

News I'm feeling fresh appreciation for my company's mandatory cybersecurity awareness course.

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Users pull $3.6 bn from Binance as it reopens following $6.3 billion mega-hack - FBI says North Korean hacking group 'TraderTraitor' to blame, North Korea says nuh-uh

By Jacob Ridley Published

News Plenty of users still happy to deposit their funds into the cryptocurrency exchange nevertheless.

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Compromised laptop could be to blame for record $6.3 billion cryptocurrency heist: Binance rushes to freeze stolen assets as experts blame North Korean group

By Jacob Ridley Published

News A DevOps engineer's compromised laptop may have been the first domino to fall in this record-breaking heist.

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Undersecretary of State Jacob Helberg Convenes The Pax Silica Summit in Washington, DC on the left and Chinese Foreign Minster Wang Yi, leads other signatories to sign the Agreement on the Establishment of The World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization on the right.
The memory crisis led me down a rabbit hole into nations forming rival factions to secure the flow of computer chips and AI, with names that wouldn't sound out of place in a Command & Conquer reboot

By Jacob Ridley Published

Et tu, Claude? Will you do your part for the Pax Silica or swear allegiance to WAICO?

Et tu, Claude?
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Someone is trying to use lost property 'finder' laws to gain legal ownership of 39,069 Bitcoin wallets, with just one of them being worth nearly $6,000,000,000

By Jacob Fox Published

News The list includes the infamous wallet with Mt. Gox stolen funds.

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A Google engineer who allegedly made over $1,000,000 after predicting 2025's most-searched person has now been arrested for insider trading

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Neither crime nor gambling pays out.

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'The company’s current business model is unsustainable': CEO of Bitcoin ATM operator blames increasing regulation for bankruptcy

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News "Operators have faced increasing litigation and regulatory enforcement."

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Gold Bitcoins are seen in the window of a Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange office on November 08, 2024 in Istanbul, Turkey. Bitcoin has soared to new record highs nearing 77,000 in the days after Donald Trump's re-election and on his campaign promise to support Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market.
Owner of $400,000 in bitcoin was locked out of their account a decade ago and they just used Claude to get back in

By James Bentley Published

News They technically could have saved money by not cashing out earlier.

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In this photo illustration a novelty Bitcoin token is photographed on a US Dollar bank note, on January 4, 2025 in Bath, England. The Cryptocurrency market has recently received a significant boost by the election of Donald Trump with hopes of the start of a policy framework that could see Bitcoin as a strategic asset
A renowned New York Times investigative reporter thinks British cryptographer is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, said cryptographer says no

By James Bentley Published

News We may never truly know who it is.

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US victims lost nearly $21 billion to cybercrime last year says FBI with crypto and AI 'complaints among the costliest'

By James Bentley Published

News A good reason to be even more sceptical of everything you see online.

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