Elon Musk's Grok AI Chatbot Has Weakest Security, While Meta's Llama Stands Strong: Researchers
No chatbot should help people build a bomb, but jailbreaking techniques can trick them into going too far.
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South Korea to Unveil Guidelines Barring the Listing of Hacked Coins
South Korean authorities are reportedly planning to release updated guidelines for virtual asset trading. These guidelines will pr...
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Uncomfortable Conversations About Privacy and Security Take the Stage in Amsterdam
PRESS RELEASE. Privacy is dead in crypto, people that know, know. People who don’t know, should know. That’s why CryptoCanal’s ETH...
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Over $500 million in crypto stolen during Q1 through exploits: CertiK
Chris Larsen, Ripple's co-founder, suffered the heaviest loss of the quarter, with over $110 million drained from his personal wal...
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Google Sues Chinese Nationals for Running Crypto Scam Using Google Play App Store
Tech giant Google has filed a lawsuit against two Chinese nationals, accusing them of developing fraudulent cryptocurrency apps on...
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Ethereum Can Still Avoid Being Labeled a Security, Says JP Morgan
The network is becoming more decentralized as the share of Lido in staked ETH decreases, financial analysts argue.
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Fake NFT Project Hack? CTO Vanishes After Allegedly Stealing 94 SOL
A new rug pull alert sounded on Tuesday after crypto detective ZachXBT unveiled on-chain details of an alleged hack suffered by an...
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Polygon CEO: L3s Might Represent a Threat to Ethereum’s Security
Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon, an Ethereum-compatible sidechain scaling solution, gave his take on the rise of Layer 3 (L3) scaling...
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EigenLayer restaking empowers security of privacy-focused rollup Fhenix
Discover how the FHE coprocessor innovation by Fhenix and EigenLayer is set to revolutionize Ethereum's onchain confidentiality an...
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Munchables revamps security, onboards new multisig signers
The NFT gaming platform is making key changes to its internal security framework after narrowly avoiding a $63 million hack.
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Solana Telegram Trading Bot to Shut Down After Users Drained of $523K
Solareum is closing up shop after acknowledging an apparent exploit that impacted hundreds of Solana users last week.
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Tether Successfully Completes ‘Gold Standard’ Security Audit
Tether, one of the leading stablecoin issuers, has announced the completion of a System and Organization Controls 2 (SOC 2) audit,...
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48 US Lawmakers Ask SEC Chair Gensler to Clarify Whether ETH Is a Security — Warn of ‘Negative Repercussions’
Forty-eight U.S. lawmakers have sent a letter to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler asking him to...
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44-Day Bitcoin Drain: Coinbase and Binance Shed 76,179 BTC in Less Than 2 Months
Recent figures show that over a span of 44 consecutive days, 76,179 bitcoins, worth $5.41 billion, have been moved out of Coinbase...
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This Week in Crypto Games: Bitcoin Stolen From 'Call of Duty' Cheaters, 'Notcoin' Airdrop Nears
Gamers lose Bitcoin to malware, Notcoin plans its next phase, and the Nyan Heroes demo hits Epic Games. More from a busy week in g...
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Phishing Scam Targeted Decrypt Newsletter Subscribers—Here’s the Latest
The scam email claimed to offer access to a $DECRYPT token airdrop. MailerLite, the service we use, was not at fault.
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Solana User Wallets Drained of $523K as BONKbot Team Denies Link
Hundreds of Solana users have had their wallets drained, and many are pointing fingers at Telegram trading bots for a private key...
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Bitcoin wallets drained as infostealer malware targets Call of Duty players
Hundreds of thousands of game accounts are exposed to a malware targeting Call of Duty players, with some users reporting stolen B...
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