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You are transferring Bitcoin from an exchange to your hardware wallet. You open the app, copy the receiving address, paste it into the withdrawal form, and confirm. Everything looks right. But what if the address belongs to someone else? Malware can...
On November 9, 2026, an attacker used five withdrawal requests to extract approximately $304,500 from Ankr’s Ethereum cross-chain bridge, according to blockchain security firm SlowMist. All five requests referred to the same small transaction on Opti...
You create a crypto wallet, write down your recovery phrase, and take a photo just in case. Maybe you even move it to a hidden album. It feels like a convenient backup. After all, who else knows the photo is there? Unfortunately, some malware can sc...
You already use crypto, and now you are considering a hardware wallet. You visit a few manufacturers’ websites and see familiar promises: air-gapped, EAL6+, Secure Element, open-source, military-grade security. They sound reassuring. But which claim...
A November 2026 security incident involving Keplr and Web3Auth raises a bigger question about social login, self-custody, and who can actually authorize a crypto transaction. Imagine setting up a crypto wallet without writing down 12 or 24 recovery...
My last two articles covered the Binance hack itself, then Binance's own report that it was a six-month break-in. This week the story moved again, in two directions at once: withdrawals keep reopening, batch by batch — and traders keep leaving anyway...
My last article covered how the Binance hack happened and how ordinary users can protect themselves. That was written from the first days of reporting. Since then, Binance has published its own detailed report — and it changes the story in an importa...
Picture the usual rhythm. Sometime in the first quarter, someone books a penetration test for June. In June, testers spend two weeks inside your application. In July, a PDF arrives, gets discussed in one meeting, and settles into a shared drive, wh...
On Thursday, October 29, 2026, hackers broke into Binance's digital wallets and stole about $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency. It is the largest crypto heist ever — roughly four times the previous record, the $1.5 billion Bybit hack of February 2025. Bi...
In the crypto ecosystem, seed phrases are often brushed off as a trivial topic. As I teased in the first installment of this series, you can take a look here—today we are going to dive a step deeper into the weeds of this analysis. To recap so we do...
