Crypto Hacks & Security

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Crypto security is about how digital assets get stolen and how to make that harder: exchange breaches, drained wallets, phishing for seed phrases and bugs in smart contracts. Blockchain transactions can't be reversed, so one mistake or one leaked key usually means the money is gone for good.

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Cyber SecurityNov 3

The Week Trust Broke: ByteMuni Cybersecurity Weekly Recap (Oct 27 – Nov 2, 2026)

This week, attackers came in through things people trust: a developer's laptop, a code extension, a monitoring script, AI model downloads, TV box firmware and even WordPress's update process. ByteMuni's weekly recap covers the $6.3 billion Binance heist, urgent patches for WordPress, GitLab and LXD, Volt Typhoon's hidden relay network, a banking malware campaign targeting Indian users, and a 10-step priority checklist.

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Crypto Hacks & SecurityNov 2

Polymarket hack turned a monitoring script into theft

Polymarket traders lost funds after a hijacked DebugBear script reused active sessions; the key defenses concern signing access, script integrity and containment.

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Crypto Hacks & Security: where to start

Most large thefts don't break the cryptography. They go around it, through a compromised developer laptop, stolen signing keys, a malicious browser extension or a trusted tool that was quietly modified. That's why these incidents are worth reading even if you never touch crypto: the same supply-chain and access-control failures show up in ordinary software teams.

If you hold crypto yourself, the basics still do most of the work. Keep significant amounts in a hardware wallet, never type a seed phrase into a website, confirm the receiving address on the device itself, and treat unexpected messages from 'support' as an attack until proven otherwise.

Articles here break down real incidents: what happened, how the attackers got in, what is still unknown, and what users and builders should change afterwards.