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The Binance Hack Has a Second Act: Following $6.3 Billion Through Tron, Solana, and a Broken Bridge

The FBI blames North Korea's TraderTraitor. Here is how the Binance billions are being laundered through Tron and Solana, what froze, and why 90% covered is not 90% recovered.

Binance's Hot Wallets Drained: What the On-Chain Record Shows About the EIP-7702 Heist

Binance hot wallets lost 167,464 ETH and 1.6B USDT in minutes. The chain shows a signed EIP-7702 delegation, not a broken contract, and 195,460 ETH is still sitting in a fresh wallet.

Electrum's Server Swapped the Transaction, Then the Fee Bump Made You Sign It

A malicious Electrum server replaced a pending payment with one paying itself. Version 4.8.3 now verifies signatures. Upgrade and verify addresses.

Keystone's Breach Leaked Shipping Addresses, Not Seed Phrases. That Is Still Bad.

Keystone says a third party took names, addresses and order details after unauthorised access on Oct 20. No seed or card data. What to do now.

The Initia Hack: A Chain Halted Itself Mid-Attack as an 'Infinimint' Exploit Bridged Out $2.7M

Initia halted its L1 and all rollups on Oct 23 after an attacker spoofed MoveVM state, credited himself unbacked tokens and bridged ~$2.7M in WETH, AUSD0 and USDC to Ethereum. What is confirmed, what is not.

The NEM Token Hack: A Sell-Tracking Bug Let an Attacker Drain a PancakeSwap Pool 42 Times

The NEM (NemTokenV2) token on BNB Chain lost $821,920 to a contract logic flaw. How the pendingLpSellRecycle accounting bug was looped 42 times against PancakeSwap.

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