22+ hour, 48+ min ago   (392+ words) The native bridge remains paused as a 20% bounty window closes Sep. 13 and final accounting continues. Cross-chain protocol Symbiosis said it recovered approximately 15 BTC after an attacker exploited its native Bitcoin Bridge, but affected liquidity providers still lack compensation terms as…...

20+ hour, 44+ min ago   (266+ words) Hacking and cybercrime groups linked to Russian intelligence have used the Claude AI tool to intensify operations targeting Ukrainian and Western institutions, according to a report by Claude’s developer, Anthropic. Anthropic has disrupted a series of cyberattacks over the last…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (439+ words) Blockstream refused to pay a ransom to the attackers for 600 BTC that remained with them after the attack on Liquid Network—a federated sidechain for Bitcoin. The company called the incident not a vulnerability disclosure but theft, and warned that…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (77+ words) Estefano Gomez is an editor at Crypto Briefing specializing in blockchain analysis, DeFi, and the intersection of crypto and digital art. He previously served as Editor in Chief at Interesante for over three years, where he covered blockchain technology, NFTs,…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (202+ words) You may think AI is being used only to generate how you might have looked in 1980s fashion, coding or for giant spreadsheets at work but Anthropic’s latest report highlights the extent to which it is being misused by governments, criminals,…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1009+ words) The fight over the remaining $46 million is splitting crypto over whether rewarding partial restitution encourages cooperation or invites extortion. Blockstream is refusing to pay the Liquid attacker nearly 600 Bitcoin (roughly $50 million), escalating a dispute over how the crypto industry should…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (273+ words) Liquid BTC faced a serious security breach, allowing 3,998.5 L-BTC to be minted fraudulently. Here's why this matters for crypto security. Liquid BTC suffered a hack, allowing 3,998.5 L-BTC to be minted fraudulently. The exploit involved a cache key collision vulnerability in…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (428+ words) After a major hack drained roughly $320 million from its federation wallet, Liquid Network is gradually seeing a comeback. Though full operations have not been resumed yet, block production has been resumed, with functionary nodes successfully signing and validating blocks. On…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (76+ words) Blockstream says it will not negotiate with the hackers behind the Liquid Network exploit, arguing that withholding other parties’ funds is criminal...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (384+ words) Blockstream has refused to pay for the return of Bitcoin after a theft from the Liquid Network because it believes that security researchers should not steal! Most of the funds have already been returned, but nearly 600 BTC, which is worth…...