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According to Cointelegraph, the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) officially entered into force, requiring cryptocurrency hardware and software wallet providers to submit an early warning within 24 hours of discovering a serious security vulnerability or an actively exploited vulnerability, a complete notification within 72 hours, and a final report within 14 days after remediation measures are implemented. The regulation applies to all "products with digital elements" sold in the EU market. Violating companies face administrative fines of up to €15 million (approximately $17.3 million) or 2.5% of their global annual turnover, whichever is higher; providing false or misleading information will result in an additional fine of up to €5 million. Previously, Trezor and BitBox have both disclosed user data breach incidents and warned users to be vigilant against phishing emails disguised as security notifications.
The EU's Cyber Resilience Act has taken effect. Cryptocurrency hardware and software wallet providers must submit an initial early warning within 24 hours after discovering actively exploited vulnerabilities or severe security flaws in their products, and submit a full notification within 72 hours.Manufacturers must submit a final report within 14 days after corrective or mitigating measures become available; serious incidents must be reported within one month. Companies that violate the relevant regulations may face fines of up to €15 million or 2.5% of global annual turnover, whichever is higher; providing false, incomplete, or misleading information may result in fines of up to €5 million. (Cointelegraph)
According to Cointelegraph, cross-chain liquidity protocol Symbiosis announced that it has recovered 15 BTC (approximately $1.1 million) from its Bitcoin bridge exploit and deposited them into a team-controlled multisignature wallet. The vulnerability occurred last Friday, as the attacker exploited the protocol flaw to mint 46.1 billion uncollateralized tokens, ultimately realizing profits of 4.3 WBTC (approximately $336,000). Symbiosis had previously offered the attacker a 20% white-hat bounty in exchange for returning the assets, but the deadline has passed without any response. The protocol is now offering a 20% bounty to anyone who provides leads to assist in recovering the assets, while committing to announce a compensation plan for affected liquidity providers. The impacted Bitcoin bridge feature remains paused.
North Korea is using remote IT workers from third countries such as Iran and Lebanon to infiltrate US companies in order to obtain funding to support its weapons programs. After the relevant individuals pass interviews, their positions are usually taken over by North Korean personnel.The US government and multiple foreign agencies issued warnings in July stating that North Korean IT workers seek contracts and send salaries back to their affiliated North Korean organizations, while also posing insider threats to companies, involving data leaks, cryptocurrency theft, and the theft of sensitive information.Some third-country IT workers are recruited through LinkedIn, and some of them work part-time as "interview facilitators," earning $500 in cryptocurrency per month.Data from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike shows that in 2025, cryptocurrency losses caused by North Korea state-linked hackers and threat actors exceeded $2 billion, an increase of 51% year over year. South Korea's central bank estimates that North Korea's GDP grew 3.5% in 2025. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: A vulnerability in email platform Brevo's login system allowed attackers to access 138 customer accounts and send phishing emails to approximately 347,000 Trezor newsletter subscribers. Accounts belonging to BitBox and cryptocurrency portfolio and tax reporting platform CoinTracking were also used to send similar scam emails.Trezor stated that the phishing email was titled "Critical Security Alert: STM32 Entropy Vulnerability," with links pointing to an app that asked users to submit their wallet backups. Trezor disabled the relevant domain via DNS within 20 minutes, but approximately 2,500 people had visited the link, and the company has alerted all 347,000 subscribers to the risk.Brevo stated that attackers exploited a failure in single sign-on configuration permission boundaries to access all organizations reachable by invited users. Six accounts were used to send phishing emails, and contact data from 43 accounts was exported. BitBox and CoinTracking said they have found no evidence of leaked company credentials, funds, or recovery phrases, but are treating the affected email addresses as potentially compromised. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: The State Attorney General's Office of Mexico (FGJEM) stated that two suspects are accused of killing four people in search of a cold wallet believed to contain millions of dollars in Bitcoin. The two are scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday, where a judge will determine whether there is sufficient evidence to continue criminal proceedings.The surnames of suspects Diego Sebastián and Gerardo have not been disclosed. Prosecutors allege that the pair killed Jonathan Meléndez, keyboardist for the rock band Camilo Séptimo, his pregnant wife, their daughter, and an employee at a residence in the city of Atizapán de Zaragoza. The family's golden retriever was also killed.Mexico's Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch, stated that one of the suspects was a business partner of the victim and allegedly used that relationship to gain entry into the residence. If convicted, the two could face sentences ranging from 25 to 70 years in prison for each victim.Blockchain security firm CertiK reported that 52 violent coercion attacks against cryptocurrency holders were recorded globally in the first half of 2026, a 33.3% increase from 39 during the same period in 2025. Blockchain analysis company Chainalysis estimates that the value of stolen cryptocurrency from related attacks exceeded $30 million. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: Blockchain project Core DAO has announced a coordinated emergency hard fork, caused by validators receiving CORE rewards exceeding the blockchain's originally scheduled issuance. Core DAO stated that the incident is under control, malicious validators can no longer continue to obtain excess rewards, and the upgrade will not roll back the network or revoke confirmed transactions.Core DAO previously stated that a small number of validators had accumulated rewards significantly higher than the protocol's set issuance, and that the incident only involved reward distribution, with user assets remaining secure. Coinbase, Bithumb, Coinone, Bitget, and LBank had restricted CORE deposits, withdrawals, or transfers.Core DAO has not yet disclosed the amount of excess CORE issued, the duration of the related activity, whether the extra tokens entered circulation, or the cause of the vulnerability, and stated that it will publish a technical post-mortem report. (Cointelegraph)
According to Cointelegraph, cybersecurity firm Morphisec has revealed that a counterfeit desktop application masquerading as Anthropic’s "Claude Opus 5 Free Desktop" is being leveraged to distribute the Windows malware RevStealer. The malicious program can exfiltrate data from over 50 cryptocurrency wallets, while simultaneously harvesting sensitive information including browser passwords, cookies, VPN configurations, message logs, and screenshots. RevStealer incorporates anti-detection measures, performing system environment checks on the target device prior to execution. If traces of debugging or virtualized environments are detected, it aborts its operation. Additionally, Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky has disclosed OkoBot, a novel malware framework targeting crypto investors capable of harvesting wallet files, injecting malicious extensions, and capturing wallet application windows to siphon assets.
According to Cointelegraph, Polygon disclosed several previously undisclosed security vulnerabilities affecting its Bor and Heimdall clients, which could lead to denial of service (DoS), validator resource exhaustion, and anomalies in checkpoint and milestone processing. The relevant vulnerabilities have currently been patched through two hard forks: Austin and Kyoto.
According to Cointelegraph, open-source wallet provider OneKey stated that its security team successfully reproduced a "transaction replacement attack" targeting the legacy Ledger Ethereum app version 1.22.1 in a laboratory environment. This vulnerability could allow attackers to replace transactions awaiting signature while users review legitimate ones, though successful exploitation requires controlling communication between the device and the host, such as through malware, compromised wallet software, or malicious websites.
blockchain gaming platform The Sandbox has announced it will compensate users who held bridged SAND on Base or BNB Smart Chain prior to the August 21 bridge vulnerability exploit at a 1:1 ratio. The compensation will be paid using Ethereum-based SAND from the project treasury, with no new tokens being minted.The attack resulted in approximately 14.744 million SAND being stolen from the Ethereum treasury, valued at around $700,000. The claims process is expected to open within two weeks and will last for two weeks; two centralized exchanges holding over 72% of eligible balances will directly distribute compensation to affected customers.The Sandbox stated that the attacker exploited a configuration vulnerability in SAND contracts on Base and BNB Chain, becoming the sole validator of bridge messages and minting unbacked tokens. Additionally, over 339 trillion unbacked SAND tokens were minted across the two networks, but these have been quarantined and cannot be bridged or exchanged. SAND on Ethereum and Polygon was unaffected, and the compromised bridge contracts will be permanently decommissioned. (Cointelegraph)
According to Cointelegraph, the latest statistics from Galaxy Research show that the Coldcard hack involved 8,865 addresses, resulting in the theft of 1,789.28 Bitcoin valued at approximately $114.7 million based on the price at the time of the incident. Of this amount, 1,561 Bitcoin, representing roughly 87.3% of the stolen funds, have not yet been transferred and remain in aggregation or holding addresses controlled by the attackers.
According to Cointelegraph, cybersecurity company Rapid7 has disclosed a cryptocurrency phishing campaign named "Operation Asterix" targeting approximately 885,000 phone numbers, aimed at luring users into visiting fraudulent Ledger, Trezor, and Exodus wallet apps or websites to steal mnemonic phrases and crypto assets.
Odaily News Rapid7, a cybersecurity firm, has disclosed a crypto phishing campaign named Operation Asterix that targets approximately 885,000 phone numbers across multiple countries, redirecting victims to fraudulent wallet service websites. A total of 5,576 phone numbers have been matched with Binance user accounts and placed on the attack queue.The attackers steal seed phrases through fake apps impersonating Ledger, Trezor, and Exodus, while also contacting victims via fraudulent customer support emails and phone calls. Rapid7 also found that among over 316,000 phone numbers in Germany, 43,066 were matched with crypto trading accounts, representing a hit rate of approximately 13.6%.The related attacks also include a bulk phone number verification tool targeting Kraken accounts, and the investigation revealed that AI tools are being widely used in phishing operations. According to data from blockchain security firm Hacken, phishing attacks and social engineering scams caused $306 million in losses in the first quarter of this year, accounting for the majority of the $482 million total losses in the crypto industry. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News, DefiLlama founder 0xngmi, of the crypto data analytics platform, stated that the team spent months asking Apple to remove phishing apps impersonating DefiLlama from the App Store, which delayed the mobile app's launch until all such counterfeit apps had been removed. 0xngmi noted that after the team downloaded one of the malicious apps and documented a small crypto wallet being stolen, Apple removed it within days. In 2024, the App Store also saw counterfeit apps impersonating Rabby Wallet and Curve Finance; in November 2023, a fake Ledger Live app on the Microsoft Store siphoned off $588,000 across 38 transactions. (Cointelegraph)
据 Cointelegraph 报道，比特币政策研究所（BPI）联合 Anchorage Digital、BitGo、Bitwise、Blockstream、Kraken、Ledger、MARA、Trezor 等多家加密机构，发布公开信敦促各大前沿 AI 实验室为比特币及开源软件开发者建立或扩展可信访问计划。 信中指出，Bitcoin Core 等开源维护者目前缺乏对 AI 实验室网络安全程序的访问渠道，被迫依赖能力较弱的开源模型，而比特币网络当前保护着逾 1 万亿美元资产，任何开源基础设施漏洞均可能危及用户毕生积蓄。BPI 同时披露，已收到多份报告显示包括潜在境外势力在内的复杂攻击者正借助先进 AI 能力持续发动攻击。
Odaily News: Hardware wallet Coldcard has suffered a hack, with no confirmed total loss amount yet. Blockchain analytics platform CryptoQuant has confirmed losses of 1,432 BTC, while Galaxy Research places a high-confidence minimum estimate at 1,730 BTC. Other analyses suggest the scale of losses could be even higher. Research firm Galaxy Research stated that its earlier estimate of 1,816 BTC represents a potential figure, not a confirmed total. As of Tuesday, the firm's confirmed high-confidence minimum loss stands at 1,730 BTC, with over 450 BTC directly confirmed based on victim reports. Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs estimates that the attacker moved approximately 1,816 BTC from more than 5,200 addresses in four phases. CryptoQuant stated that its confirmed figures only include addresses publicly disclosed by victims and verified through on-chain patterns, meaning the tally could rise as more victims come forward with information. (Cointelegraph)
According to Cointelegraph, AnchorWatch CEO and Bitcoin Red Team founder Rob Hamilton stated that after integrating OpenAI Trust & Cyber capabilities into the Bitcoin Red Team's security research work, he faced access restrictions the next day and was forced to switch back to using Chinese open-source AI models to continue research. The Bitcoin Red Team has currently discovered 1,288 critical and high-risk vulnerabilities in the Bitcoin ecosystem, and research work significantly accelerated after the Coldcard hardware wallet was hacked (over $100 million in Bitcoin stolen). Hamilton commented on this: "Black-hat hackers face no restrictions, while white-hat researchers dedicated to reducing risk are excluded."
据 Cointelegraph 报道，区块链初创公司 Quantus 创始人 Christopher Smith 警告称，量子计算破解现代加密技术的首个信号，可能并非高调盗取中本聪比特币，而是一系列无迹可查的钱包资产异常转移——攻击者无需入侵设备或交易所系统，仅凭链上暴露的公钥即可推算出私钥。Smith 指出，若攻击发生，"唯一的法证证据就是没有任何入侵痕迹"。 在攻击目标方面，Smith 认为加密领域最具价值的目标或为 Tether 铸币密钥，量子攻击者可凭此凭空增发 USDT 并迅速抛售套利。Blockchain Capital 安全研究员 Sean Cheetham 则认为，攻击者更可能优先针对交易所热钱包，以避免引发广泛警觉。 在时间线方面，Smith 给出 2028 年前实现量子破密的概率为"五五开"，Cheetham 认为 2030 年代初"几乎确定"会到来。Google 已于今年 3 月将后量子迁移时间表提前至 2029 年。
According to Cointelegraph, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper wrote in the Financial Times, calling on the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act as soon as possible and emphasizing that the bill is not only a financial services bill but also a national security bill. Esper pointed out that China is heavily investing in state-led payment systems to bypass U.S. regulation and undermine the dominance of the U.S. dollar, while weak digital asset regulatory rules also provide loopholes for North Korean hacking organizations such as the Lazarus Group to evade U.S. financial controls. He stated that the CLARITY Act will expand the Treasury Department's special measures authority under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act and is a powerful weapon to combat malicious actors.