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Odaily News: In an operation targeting the Telegram crypto escrow trading platform Xinbi Guarantee, the U.S. Department of Justice's Scam Center Strike Force restricted the handling of approximately $52 million in fraud-related cryptocurrency in a single day, bringing the cumulative total to approximately $938 million. Previously, the cumulative amount frozen, seized, or recovered had already exceeded $580 million.The U.S. Department of the Treasury stated that since its founding around 2022, Xinbi Guarantee has processed over $24 billion in transactions, involving digital assets and fiat currency, primarily serving Southeast Asian transactions. North Korean hackers and sanctioned entities are alleged to have used the platform, including entities under Jin Bei Group and Prince Group.A U.S. federal court approved the seizure on September 7 of the Telegram channel operated by Xinbi Guarantee. Law enforcement authorities also seized two payment wallets totaling approximately $12 million and applied to freeze another 47 cryptocurrency wallets suspected of being used for money laundering or associated with fraud-related service providers.The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added Xinbi Guarantee and its two supporting companies, Safew Technology and Anwen Technology, to its sanctions list on September 9. The U.S. Department of Justice also dispatched investigators to Madagascar to assist local law enforcement in cracking down on 13 scam compounds operated by Chinese nationals and to process over 3,200 electronic devices. (Bitcoin.com News)
Hey Wallet, a Solana-based social wallet, has announced the cessation of its product operations and reminded users to back up their wallets on the official website. Operating since 2021, the project previously supported users in making SOL transfers, tipping creators, minting NFTs, and trading tokens via social platforms such as X, Telegram, and Discord.
According to security firm Huntress, hackers are distributing credential-stealing malware to cryptocurrency users through forged Google Docs files, malicious files hosted on GitHub, and cloned Claude.ai pages. Attackers impersonate senior CoinDesk employees on the social platform X, luring victims into opening Google Docs documents containing malicious code under the guise of an online meeting invitation, which then prompts users to manually install the malicious software. Mac users face threats from Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS), which can steal browser passwords, cryptocurrency wallet data, and Telegram files; Windows users are served fake Google API Connector updates that, once installed, deploy NetSupport RAT and counterfeit Ledger hardware wallet applications. Additionally, hackers have placed fraudulent ads on search engines like Bing to lure users to cloned Claude.ai pages where they execute malicious commands; the associated malware, MacSync and SectopRAT, can steal cookies, saved passwords, mnemonic phrases, and payment card information. Security firm Socket also concurrently identified 16 malicious extensions targeting Chrome and Edge, capable of draining EVM, Solana, and Tron wallet assets.
According to official sources, OpenAI has banned a group of ChatGPT accounts suspected to originate from Russia, which were used to generate social media content promoting the self-described Israeli-based "expert community," International Burke Institute (IBI). OpenAI stated that the operation involved publishing content on platforms such as Substack, Telegram, X, Facebook, and LinkedIn, while attempting to conceal the operators' Russian origin. Investigations revealed that the IBI website contains copied and misattributed academic content, and has introduced a so-called "Sovereignty Index." Related content tends to present Russia in a positive light while criticizing Western countries.
Telegram 创始人 Pavel Durov 表示，Telegram 已向 ICANN 申请“.gram”域名。若获批准，Telegram 用户可注册类似 yourname.gram 的域名，并通过提示词创建由 Telegram 托管的交互式网站。
Odaily News: Peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform NoOnes announced that it will begin gradually winding down operations after running for over three years. The company stated that it had been continuously seeking to resolve and lift the sanctions imposed on NoOnes, but ultimately failed. The sanctions caused the platform to lose key partners, and blockchain monitoring firms also flagged transactions associated with NoOnes as high-risk, making it increasingly difficult for the platform to continue normal operations. According to the plan, the business contraction began on August 17, and the P2P marketplace will close at 23:59 UTC on August 21. Services such as Swap, NoOnes Visa, fiat withdrawals, the gift card store, and the Bitcoin Lightning Network will also be discontinued progressively. After that, the platform will only support withdrawals, and users will still be able to log in, view balances, and withdraw remaining assets. The company advises users to complete asset withdrawals as soon as possible, no later than August 23. Previously, on January 26, 2025, NoOnes revealed that the platform had suffered a major security breach earlier that month, resulting in losses of approximately $8 million in crypto assets. CEO Ray Youssef confirmed the news after on-chain detective ZachXBT disclosed the hacking incident on his Telegram channel.
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov stated that Telegram was briefly removed from the App Store by Apple recently, after a user implanted illegal pornographic content in a public group. The app was restored within hours.Durov said the attacker exploited a technical vulnerability to insert AI-modified illegal content into old messages within active groups, hiding the content by editing historical messages, making it difficult for regular group members to detect and report in time. This type of attack constitutes "takedown extortion," where attackers use automated accounts to implant violative content in public groups and report it to platforms like Apple, attempting to force group administrators to pay a ransom, or else exploit platform rules to get the community banned.Durov added that Telegram continuously combats illegal content through mechanisms such as user reports, AI filtering, and content hashing. This incident is not a systemic issue with the platform, but rather a targeted attack exploiting rule loopholes. He also warned that Apple's removal of the app without prior contact with Telegram could pose a risk to all mobile applications offering user-generated content (UGC), and platform developers need to strengthen their defenses against malicious reporting and "takedown attacks."
According to The Block, a Telegram spokesperson stated that Telegram has been relisted on the Apple App Store and will soon be open to all users again.
Odaily News: In the Coldcard security incident involving hardware wallet company Coinkite, the amount of stolen bitcoin has risen to approximately 1,359.882 BTC. According to statistics from the Coldcard Sweep Watch dashboard, most of the identified bitcoin remains in a small number of addresses controlled by the attacker. On August 1, one of the attacker's holding addresses received a transaction containing an OP_RETURN message. The message publicly offered a 10% fee for "washing" bitcoin, KYC assistance, and withdrawal services for stolen funds, along with a Telegram contact. Coinkite has released an urgent firmware update to fix the weak random number generation issue that caused the original vulnerability. The company stated that the new firmware only protects wallets created in the future and cannot fix seeds already generated on affected versions. Some users have reported that after installing the update, their devices remain stuck on an error screen, fail to boot, or appear bricked. This mainly affects Mk4 and Q devices, though some Mk3 users have also reported similar issues. As of August 2, Coinkite has not publicly confirmed a widespread firmware defect.
According to Yonhap News Agency, data released by the National Investigation Headquarters of the Korean National Police Agency shows that during the concentrated crackdown campaign in the first half of this year (March to June), a total of 5,203 drug suspects were caught and 1,039 were detained, representing a year-on-year increase of 1.8% and 7.8% respectively. Among them, suspects involved in online drug transactions reached 2,178, accounting for 41.9% of the total number of suspects caught, an increase of 300 people compared to the same period last year; there were 848 foreign nationals involved in drug-related activities, an increase of 114 people year-on-year, with supply-related crimes accounting for up to 47.2%. During this period, the police also successfully extradited Philippine drug lord Park Wang-yeol and recovered criminal proceeds of 3.84 billion Korean won. In the second half of the year (August to December), the police will focus on strengthening crackdowns on drug sales channels on social platforms such as Telegram, and establish a 41-member special tracking team for virtual assets, while jointly strengthening efforts to crack down on drug crimes involving foreign personnel with international law enforcement agencies.
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov (@durov) revealed in a post that the Russian government has designated him as a "terrorist" because he refused to comply with Russian demands to implement mass surveillance and content censorship on Telegram. Under relevant Russian laws, Durov is prohibited from "publishing any information on the internet." Durov responded to this by stating: "Russian officials obviously fail to understand who can actually kick whom off the internet."
据 Cointelegraph 报道，澳大利亚互联网监管机构对 Telegram 提起法律诉讼，指控其未能移除支持恐怖主义的内容。
Odaily news "On-chain detective" ZachXBT posted in his personal channel, stating that Telegram continues to allow scam advertisements to be displayed to subscribers in his channel, impacting user experience and posing potential security risks.ZachXBT stated that if users are Telegram Premium members and wish to support upgrading his channel, they can help it reach the required level by using the channel's Boost function, thereby unlocking the ability to disable ads. Currently, the channel needs to reach Level 50 to enable the ad-disabling option.ZachXBT has long focused on scams, hacker attacks, and on-chain fund tracking within the crypto industry, and has repeatedly exposed incidents involving phishing attacks, fake projects, and fund theft.This time, he raised concerns about Telegram's advertising mechanism, arguing that the platform allowing scam advertisements to appear in crypto community channels may increase the risk of users encountering malicious links and fraudulent activities.
Odaily Odaily Telegram founder Pavel Durov posted on his personal channel that this summer will see the "largest non-custodial crypto wallet deployment in human history." Telegram plans to integrate the native non-custodial Gram wallet into all its applications. Pavel Durov stated that the wallet will provide over 1 billion Telegram users with instant, zero-fee cryptocurrency transaction experiences, further popularizing on-chain payments. He said, "We are bringing the native non-custodial Gram wallet into every Telegram application."
Telegram AI chain DuckChain tweeted that the network upgrade is about to commence, and assets still on DuckChain need to be bridged to TON prior to the upgrade to ensure normal asset access. The official team stated that once the upgrade window opens, access to assets on DuckChain will be restricted, and users are advised to complete migration and related unstaking operations as soon as possible to avoid service interruption.
: Fintech platform MoonPay has acquired crypto infrastructure startup Glide and will integrate its deposit and routing technology. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Glide was founded in 2023 by Tushar Soni and Qinyu Tong, both of whom were part of the Robinhood Wallet team. Glide supports over 100 tokens across 30 blockchain networks, helping applications receive deposits from various tokens, wallets, exchanges, and payment sources. Upon completion of the acquisition, Glide's technology will be integrated into MoonPay Deposits, a product already used by applications such as Wallet in Telegram, Moonshot, and Paysafe. MoonPay stated that this transaction is part of its efforts to expand its digital asset infrastructure capabilities. This is the sixth acquisition announced by MoonPay in 2026, following previous acquisitions of Sodot, Decent, DFlow, Entendre, and Dawn Labs. Its investors include Thrive Capital, Paradigm, Valhalla Ventures, Tiger Global Management, and Coatue.
OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger posted on X that OpenClaw has officially released version v2026.7.1. This update was completed jointly by 532 contributors, with a cumulative total of 3,063 commits. Major updates include: comprehensive restructuring of the Web UI and new user onboarding process, significant optimization of iOS / Android / macOS clients, improved integration capabilities for Telegram, Slack, Discord, and iMessage, and added support for models such as GPT-5.6 and Muse Spark 1.1. In addition, this version simultaneously upgraded the Node version to fix automatic updater issues. If the automatic update fails, the upgrade can be completed manually via the Web installer.
Today, X-Agent, a zero-code operating platform for AI Agents built on a Web3 social network, officially released its core to the global audience. The whitepaper details how it leverages zero-code deployment and secure sandbox technology to reshape the decentralized AI agent ecosystem and its commercialization pathway.The core technologies and solutions are as follows:1) Speak to Build (Zero-Code Deployment): Allows users to create and deploy professional-grade AI agents with one click to Telegram, WhatsApp, or the Web in just minutes using pure natural language.2) SRE Cryptographic Sandbox (Physical Isolation Security): A proprietary physically isolated operating environment that perfectly protects users' private keys and sensitive credentials while enabling agents to possess enterprise-grade capabilities for autonomous asset management and on-chain collaboration.Market Performance and Latest Data: X-Agent has surpassed 1,000,000+ global cumulative users. Its deployed AI agents have autonomously completed over 1,100,000 actual business tasks, consuming/burning more than 84 billion model Tokens. The project has previously raised $1.8 million in funding and boasts highly cohesive localized communities in Japan and South Korea.The native token, $XAGT, serves as the hard currency for network settlement, directly used for paying SRE computing power Gas fees, transaction commissions, and staking endorsements. The team and investors are subject to a strict 12-month Cliff lock-up period. Community allocations are entirely non-inflationary and can only be released algorithmically through actual sandbox task consumption, ensuring every token is backed by real business demand.According to the latest roadmap, X-Agent plans to open a new zero-code public portal in Q3 2026 and launch a decentralized Agent Store in Q1 2027.
According to a post by International Cyber Digest on X, Telegram's core domain t.me has been placed in serverHold status by the .me domain registry. This status means the domain will be removed from the global DNS system, rendering all links starting with t.me/ temporarily inaccessible. Domain records indicate the change occurred today. As of now, Telegram, the .me domain registry, and its backend operator Identity Digital have not yet issued a public statement regarding this matter.
According to Decrypt, MoonPay officially launched the Telegram integration feature for MoonAgents on July 9, allowing users to engage in natural conversations with the AI assistant via Telegram to perform operations such as market analysis, creating dashboards, and preparing crypto transactions. According to Kevin Arifin, Head of Product for MoonPay Agents, this integration is an extension of the MoonAgents desktop application, aimed at meeting users' trading needs in mobile scenarios. It is worth noting that Telegram serves only as an interaction interface; users' private keys and data remain stored on local devices, so even if Telegram ceases service, users can continue to use full functionality via the desktop application.