532 posts tagged with "Security"
Cybersecurity, smart contract audits, and best practices
Solana Frontier Hackathon: Can 80,000 Builders Outrun a $286M Hack and a 33% Price Crash?
Colosseum's Solana Frontier Hackathon opens five weeks after the $286M Drift exploit and a 33% SOL Q1 drop. Here's what the participation numbers will reveal about Solana's developer momentum.
Solana's $270M Drift Aftermath: Can STRIDE Security and 'Agentic Payments Leader' Coexist?
After a $270M North Korean exploit on Drift, the Solana Foundation launched STRIDE and declared itself the leader in agentic payments. Here is whether the double narrative holds up.
The $4.8M Press Release: How South Korea's Tax Agency Leaked a Seed Phrase and Got Saved by an Illiquid Token
South Korea's tax agency published a seized Ledger wallet's seed phrase in a press release. A $4.8M theft followed — and only the target token's terrible liquidity forced the attacker to send it back. A cautionary tale for every government now holding billions in crypto.
Google's Quantum AI Whitepaper Maps Five Attack Paths That Put $100B of Ethereum at Risk
Google Quantum AI's 57-page paper, co-authored with Ethereum's Justin Drake and Stanford's Dan Boneh, maps five quantum attack paths that put more than $100B of on-chain value at risk and pulls Q-Day forward to 2029.
Circle's Arc Blockchain Is Building the Quantum-Proof Foundation for the Next Decade of Finance
Circle's Arc Layer-1 blockchain launches at mainnet with NIST-standard post-quantum signatures — the first major blockchain designed with quantum resistance from genesis. As Google warns ECDSA could be broken by 2029, Arc's four-phase roadmap positions it as the only quantum-native settlement network for institutional stablecoin finance.
South Korea's $4.8M OpSec Catastrophe: How the National Tax Service Photographed Its Own Seed Phrase and Got Robbed Twice in 48 Hours
South Korea's National Tax Service published a seized Ledger wallet's seed phrase in a press photo — and lost $4.8M to two different thieves in 48 hours. A case study in why government crypto custody needs qualified custodians, MPC, and real SOPs.
Bitcoin's $1.3T Quantum Clock: The 9-Minute ECDSA Break and BIP-360 Race to Save 6.9M BTC
Google Quantum AI's March 2026 paper shrinks the quantum threat to nine minutes. BIP-360 is on testnet, BIP-361 proposes freezing Satoshi's coins, and Bitcoin's 7-year migration clock has started.
The $45M AI Agent Exploit That Changed DeFi Security Forever
A $45 million exploit in early 2026 targeted AI trading agents through oracle poisoning — not smart contract bugs — exposing a fundamentally new attack surface in DeFi where speed, autonomy, and unauditable inference layers become liabilities.
Operation Atlantic: How Coinbase, the Secret Service, and the NCA Froze $12M in Stolen Crypto in One Week
Operation Atlantic united Coinbase, the US Secret Service, and the UK NCA to freeze $12M in stolen crypto and identify 20,000 victims across 30 countries in a single week — marking a shift from reactive investigation to real-time blockchain crime intervention.