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Coins•Nov 11, 2026

LNbits Releases Urgent Version 1.7.0 Security Update Following November 8 Attacks

Key Highlights: LNbits released version 1.7.0 to harden authentication, extension management, and payment handling following an exploit, warning that updating alone does not revoke unauthorized access. Operators suspecting compromise must stand up fresh servers, preserve forensic logs, rotate user wallet private keys, revoke funding-source credentials, and rebuild connected extensions. Security firm SlowMist recorded a 2,285,545-satoshi ...

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Coins•Nov 8, 2026

Former Holograph Foundation Employee Gets Five Years in Prison Over $14M HLG Token Mint

Key Highlights: A Paris court convicted Vitaliy K. and two accomplices over an illicit exploit involving the unauthorized minting and theft of 1 billion HLG tokens valued at approximately €12.5 million ($14 million). Judges dismissed the Holograph Foundation’s civil claim for token price decline damages, ruling that HLG had already plummeted prior to the crime ...

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Coins•Nov 5, 2026

Tendril Exploit Drains Roughly $555K in USDT After Sell Hook Flaw

Key Highlights The TENDRIL token contract was exploited on BNB Chain through manipulated burn operations and reserve alterations, draining nearly the entire USDT liquidity pool on PancakeSwap. Total losses are estimated at up to $555,000, with initial tracking reports from TenArmorAlert pegging figures around $309,000 before comprehensive disclosures from ExVul and ScaleBit confirmed over $550,000 ...

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Coins•Oct 29, 2026

Altcoin Project Halts Block Production and Withdrawals Following Attack Alert

Key Highlights: The zkLink Nova development team has placed its ecosystem under an extensive security review following an exploit targeting compromised contracts and associated components. Network operations and external asset transfers will remain offline until security risks are definitively eliminated, with no definitive timeline announced for reactivation. The exact financial scale of the incident remains ...

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Coins•Oct 24, 2026

Chainalysis Exposes Exploit Behind $4.7 Million Stablecoin Attack

Key Highlights: The recent X100 exploit has injected uncertainty into the broader cryptocurrency market, triggering mixed price action across digital assets. Security and on-chain intelligence firms, including Chainalysis, continue to focus on assessing decentralized system vulnerabilities and tracing stolen funds. The breach is expected to drive heightened regulatory scrutiny and force decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms ...

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Coins•Oct 13, 2026

Altcoin Crashes 92% Following Exploit as Millions of Minted Tokens Are Converted to Ethereum

Key Highlights A bad actor unauthorizedly generated 19 million THEO tokens on the Base layer-2 network. The exploiter dumped the newly minted tokens for 700.8 ETH, valued at roughly $1.76 million, and bridged the funds to the Ethereum mainnet. The unauthorized token creation and subsequent sell-off triggered an immediate 92% crash in THEO’s market price. ...

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Coins•Oct 5, 2026

Hacker Returns All Funds in Unexpected Twist Following $3.8 Million Crypto Attack

Key Highlights: NEAR Intents has fully recovered the $3.8 million drained during a recent security exploit. General Manager Alex Shevchenko confirmed that the attacker returned all stolen assets following a 48-hour grace period and identification. The vulnerability originated from an interaction flaw between the Omni deposit and withdrawal system and the NEAR Intents smart contract. ...

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