☠️ Hackers are once again attacking crypto exchanges and financial companies, stealing user data.

At Coinbase, contacts of 70,000 clients leaked via a third-party service, Bithumb is investigating an internal system hack, data of 38,490 people was stolen from broker Daishin Securities, and Mirae Asset confirmed penetration into corporate systems and the leakage of work data.

Against the backdrop of new attacks, CZ advised to use a separate email for each exchange, hardware keys, and to abandon SMS confirmations.

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🖥 A solo miner with a hash rate of only about 16 TH/s hit a Bitcoin jackpot worth $253,000 — yesterday he managed to independently mine block #973413 and receive 3.1397 BTC, despite minuscule chances of competing with massive mining farms.

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🪙 In bitcoinjs-lib, a popular library for Bitcoin wallets, two vulnerabilities were discovered, due to which applications could dangerously underestimate transfer fees.

In one of the tests, the actual transaction fee would have been 9 BTC, although the program showed only 200 satoshis.

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🪙 Ethereum launched ENSv2 — a major update to the crypto domain system .eth — now owners will be able to more conveniently create subdomains, for example pay.company.eth, and transfer management rights for them, while retaining control over the primary domain.

Existing addresses will continue to work, and ENS itself already supports over 36 million names across different spaces and is integrated with over 600 applications.

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🚬 Datavault AI cannot withdraw approximately 818 BTC from Biconomy crypto exchange — the company received the coins as payment for its shares, but has been unsuccessfully trying since June to transfer them to its own wallet.

Moreover, the coins were already listed in its assets, so now the financial statements will have to be corrected by tens of millions of dollars — after the problem was disclosed, Datavault shares collapsed by almost 50%.

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🔫 In Russia 5 crypto exchanges were closed, through which drug trafficking proceeds from the darknet were laundered.

Police obtained data on more than 185,000 cryptocurrency transactions, detained five suspects, and seized money, cryptocurrency, and equipment.

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🔍 Google will soon unveil a cryptocurrency protection system against hacks and theft — technology Multi-Party Compute splits wallet private keys among several secure systems, so that attackers cannot steal funds by compromising one of them.

Alphabet already uses it to protect assets on Ethereum and Solana, and commercial launch is scheduled for early 2027.

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💸 Michael Saylor's Strategy has come up with a new way to attract money for BTC purchases — shareholders approved daily dividend accrual on preferred shares, which the company sells to investors to buy BTC.

The main problem is that these securities trade below their nominal value of $100 even with a yield of 12% annually, so Strategy expects to regain interest in them and resume large-scale coin purchases.

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🪙 Monero privacy was threatened due to a leak from the crypto exchange Wagyu, hackers obtained data on 38,628 exchanges and over 10,000 IP addresses — some records allow linking crypto transactions to Monero wallets and user IPs, although XMR's protection itself was not compromised.

Hackers demanded $5 mln for not disclosing the data, but after the exchange refused, they published it.

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🤖 Claude started mass blocking — Anthropic introduced mandatory age verification and KYC, after verification with Russian documents accounts are often blocked.

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⚡️ KuCoin will stop serving users from Russia and Belarus — the exchange announced the immediate cessation of all products, services, and functions for users from these countries due to legislative and regulatory requirements.

Previously: Bitget, MEXC and HTX.

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