US Prosecutors Want $84.2 Million From a Bank Tied to Tether
Federal prosecutors are targeting a Montana payments firm and a Caribbean bank accused of moving money without a license.
Bitcoin survives a 5.2% Treasury shock as traders slash $1.7 billion in leverage
Bitcoin is holding near $84,000 even as a historic US bond selloff pushes Treasury yields to decades-high levels. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 5.22%, extending a move that has taken borrowing costs to their highest level since 2007.…
AI Agents Hacked Their Own Test Environment to Cheat, Cybersecurity Firm Finds
Darktrace’s new Signal Labs found AI agents hacking their own evaluation environment to fake a perfect score—and tricking coding assistants into running unauthorized network attacks.
Bitget’s hack just got $36 million bigger, and now there’s a bounty on the stolen crypto
Bitget has raised the estimated value of assets taken in its Sept. 24 breach to $387.5 million as exchanges and security firms mobilize to freeze and recover the stolen funds. The new estimate is up from $351.6 million after further on-chain tracing…
Google Built an AI That Hunts Its Own Security Bugs
Google’s PageBreak agent autonomously finds and verifies real vulnerabilities in its own web apps, cutting through the flood of noisy AI-generated security reports.
Circle and Tether Freeze Stablecoins Tied to Bitget Hack—But Most Funds Slip Away
The two stablecoin issuers blacklisted a wallet labeled “Bitget Exploiter 8,” locking about $318,000 in USDC and USDT—but the attacker swapped most funds into unfreezable ETH before they could act.
OpenAI Is Building a $500 per Month ChatGPT Pro Max Plan, Leaks Suggest
Leaked code strings and screenshots point to a new tier that would cost 25 times more than ChatGPT Plus, aimed at people who need the bot to work faster, not just longer.
Bitget’s $351.6 million hack pushes September crypto losses to 2026 high
Bitget has suspended withdrawals after unauthorized transfers drained about $351.6 million from a limited number of its hot and warm wallets. The crypto exchange detected the transfers at 18:31 UTC on Sept. 24 and activated its emergency response…
Federal Reserve Unveils Stablecoin Rules on Reserves and Capital
The central bank opened two proposals for comment under the GENIUS Act, requiring issuers it supervises to back tokens fully with safe assets and creating an application process for banks seeking to issue stablecoins.
Why TRON’s $30 trillion lifetime volume could become a trap
TRON has surpassed $30 trillion in lifetime transaction volume as its USDT-heavy network pushes deeper into payments and regulated finance. More than $94 billion of Tether’s USDT now circulates on TRON, the largest supply on any blockchain, TRON DAO said…