The crypto industry fell victim to confirmation bias this week in a sensational fake news story. According to the tall tale, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen gave an AI agent $50,000 of bitcoin, the ...

The price of oil has more than doubled in just two weeks, driving crypto platforms into a speculative frenzy that saw them list leveraged oil derivatives for overnight commodities futures experts ...

Iran told tanker operators on Wednesday that they must pay bitcoin (BTC) to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The use of BTC, mentioned by name by Hamid Hosseini, a spokesman for the country’s oil ...

Kraken’s Chief Security Officer Nick Percoco has revealed that the crypto exchange is being extorted by criminals who are threatening to leak videos of client data. Percoco shared the news on X today, ...

Anthropic, the $380 billion AI giant responsible for the Claude tool, has a new AI model called Mythos that could become a crypto hacking nightmare. Concerned about global panic if it were to release ...

The UK has sanctioned the operator of one of Cambodia’s largest scam compounds, and a major crypto-based Southeast Asia marketplace that sells stolen personal data to traffickers. The measures are ...

While the world watched with growing consternation as the US and Israel attacked Iran and the Strait of Hormuz was shut down to sea vessels, a financial problem was quietly festering beneath the ...

Bitcoin’s (BTC) briefly slipped from $79,000 to just $0.019 today on UK online banking platform Revolut. Mercifully, the dip lasted just a few seconds before it returned to its original price. Using ...

The X account of scrap-metal billionaire and NFT investor Adam Weitsman was hacked on Thursday and used to promote a fake forex trading course and phony “Clawed Ape Yacht Club” memecoin. The account ...

Crypto has always been a risky space in which to put one’s money, but the current rate of hacks has even multi-cycle veterans spooked. In 2026 alone, a grand total of $1.08 billion has been stolen in ...

Donald Trump has joined World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency project advised by his children and run by fraudsters and executives from failed and hacked projects. The protocol is a thin wrapper ...

Solana DEX Stabble has urged its users to withdraw all liquidity after a former employee was outed as a North Korean operative. The IT worker in question, who has also worked for Solana crypto fund ...