Binance Research finds that AI is twice as effective at exploiting smart contracts, with GPT-5.3-Codex achieving a 72% ...

Cecuro's AI smart contract security agent identifies 87.7% of high-severity findings on OpenAI’s EVMBench, as AI exploit costs fall to $1.22 per contract and offensive capability doubles every 1.3 ...

DeFi losses surpass $800M in April 2026 as attacks shift to key management, admin control failures, and bridge vulnerabilities despite stronger smart contracts.

Aethir said it halted a bridge exploit on its Ethereum-linked contracts, limiting losses to under $90,000 after PeckShield estimated $400,000 in damages. Aethir, a decentralized GPU cloud ...

Trusta AI (TA) tokens became the target of a liquidity pool exploit, just hours after the asset launched on Binance Alpha. TA slid as the attackers staged a fake liquidity pool. Blocksec Phantom ...

Usual Protocol discovered a series of unvetted transactions. BlockSec reported the breach, which led to the pausing of all Usual smart contracts. BlockSec discovered a series of suspicious ...

Chainalysis noted that on April 18, 2026, cybercriminals believed to be tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group executed one of ...

Hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in Marimo reactive Python notebook to deploy a new variant of NKAbuse malware hosted on Hugging Face Spaces. Attacks leveraging the remote code ...

The cryptocurrency industry is facing a severe security crisis. In just under 20 days, digital asset platforms have lost more than $605 million to cyberattacks. The latest and most devastating ...

A roughly $292 million exploit over the weekend has rattled the crypto industry, exposing vulnerabilities in decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure and raising concerns about knock-on effects ...

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A researcher released a working ‘BlueHammer’ Windows zero-day exploit that could impact over 1 billion devices, granting SYSTEM-level access and leaving no patch yet. A disgruntled security researcher ...