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Missouri man pleads guilty in attempted BTC robbery
Martel Williams pleaded guilty to conspiracy in an attempted Bitcoin robbery, admitting to a plan to force a Connecticut target to transfer stolen cryptocurrency.
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Security
Hacks, exploits, scams and the state of crypto security.
News
Keystone breach exposes data kept past its 180-day deadline
Keystone's website breach exposed customer shipping data, despite the company's privacy policy promising to delete such records after 180 days.
News
Arbitrum proposes controlled restart for Stylus activations
Arbitrum proposes a controlled restart for Stylus activations on Arbitrum One, allowing the Arbitrum Foundation to authorize audited contracts after a 21-day pause.
Ethereum
EIP-8425 tightens who can recover after Ethereum drops `ecRecover`
Ethereum's EIP-8425 proposal, updated on October 24, tightens account eligibility for post-ECDSA recovery and removes the `ecRecover` precompile at the quantum freeze time.
News
Optimism proposes Security Council lead and Token House veto
Optimism proposes a new Security Council structure where the Token House elects a Lead who nominates members, subject to a 20% OP veto threshold.
DeFi
Aave V3.8 proposal pairs security upgrade with proposed risk cuts
Aave's V3.8 proposal focuses on a security upgrade with a transient-storage reentrancy guard, while LlamaRisk recommends tighter caps for USDe, LINK, and rETH.
Ethereum
EIP-8279 tightens gas accounting ahead of Glamsterdam
A new Ethereum EIP commit for EIP-8279 tightens gas accounting, removing an unsafe refund path and adding execution-gas budget checks ahead of the Glamsterdam hard fork.
News
Mastercard puts pre-settlement risk scores on stablecoin payments
Mastercard launched Stablecoin Security, an API-driven tool providing pre-settlement fraud, scam, and sanctions screening for stablecoin payments, starting in North America.
Altcoins
Zcash proposal targets quantum links in shielded pools
New Zcash proposals, Flock and Zakura, aim to protect shielded transactions from quantum attacks by enabling recovery for privacy pools and one-time viewing keys.
News
Qubic freezes chain after 1,400 wallets drained by weak seeds
Qubic froze its layer-1 network after an attacker drained $1.4 million from over 1,400 wallets due to weak seed generation, with 87.1% of funds frozen on-chain.
