Verified Steam game steals streamer’s cancer treatment donations
A gamer seeking financial support for cancer treatment lost $32,000 after downloading from Steam a verified game named Block Blasters that drained his cryptocurrency wallet. Block...
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Canada dismantles TradeOgre exchange, seizes $40 million in crypto
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has shut down the TradeOgre cryptocurrency exchange and seized more than $40 million believed to originate from criminal activities. This...
French court ruling may lead to legal challenges over state Sky ECC and EncroChat phone hack
The French supreme court has turned to the European Court of Justice to decide whether EU citizens have the right to challenge the legality of...
Democrats are investigating Trump crypto advisor David Sacks over a possible SGE violation
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) are leading a group of congressional Democrats in investigating White House Special Advisor David Sacks for...
‘WhiteCobra’ floods VSCode market with crypto-stealing extensions
A threat actor named WhiteCobra has targeting VSCode, Cursor, and Windsurf users by planting 24 malicious extensions in the Visual Studio marketplace and the Open VSX...
New VMScape attack breaks guest-host isolation on AMD, Intel CPUs
A new Spectre-like attack dubbed VMScape allows a malicious virtual machine (VM) to leak cryptographic keys from an unmodified QEMU hypervisor process running on modern...
The New Math of Quantum Cryptography
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain...
Stock exchanges representatives warn against turning financial assets into cryptocurrencies
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) recently issued an open letter to major financial regulators urging them to address the rising interest in tokenized assets...
Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately
It’s hard to find programmers these days who aren’t using AI coding assistants in some capacity, especially to write the repetitive, mundane bits. But those...
Plug In, Get Hacked: A USB Cryptomining Attack Exposed
Key takeaways: A multi-stage USB cryptomining attack uses DLL hijacking and PowerShell to install hidden miners on your computer. The most targeted industries include financial,...
