Malicious code on the website of prediction market Polymarket sold some signed-in traders’ positions and moved their funds to the hackers on October 29. The code had replaced a page-speed script that the site loaded from an outside company. Polymarket says it is refunding about $2.7 million to 726 affected wallets. BlockchainRead More »Hackers Steal About $2.7 Million From Polymarket Traders via Hijacked DebugBear Script

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what has been described as a “highly sophisticated infection chain” targeting government organizations in Asia. The activity, detailed by Kaspersky this week, targeted a custom Windows 10 build used exclusively by government entities in Asia and involves the deployment of a previously undocumented .NETRead More »NetamLoader Malware Targets Government Windows 10 Systems in Asia via .NET Injection

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has officially attributed the theft of more than $6 billion in virtual assets to TraderTraitor, a North Korea-aligned elite hacking group also tracked as Jade Sleet, Pressure Chollima, PUKCHONG, Slow Pisces, and UNC4899. The FBI, along with the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) andRead More »FBI Links North Korea’s TraderTraitor to Record $6.43 Billion Binance Crypto Heist

American blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis said it was the target of a cybersecurity incident in which an external actor accessed non-sensitive customer data. However, the company noted that the breach did not result in unauthorized access to its investigation content, authentication credentials, or session tokens. “This month, Chainalysis detected anRead More »Chainalysis Confirms Intrusion Into Internal Tools and Exposure of Customer Identity Data

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-111357 (CVSS score: 8.8) – A missing authentication for a critical functionRead More »Attackers Chain Three Ivanti Connect Secure Flaws to Gain Unauthenticated Root Access

A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker’s code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it, allowing them to read their private conversations, researchers at the security firm Parameter showed. The researchers reported the flaw through OpenAI’s bug bounty program on October 18, and OpenAI fixed it eight days later andRead More »A Shared ChatGPT Link Could Run Attacker Code in Your Session and Read Private Chats

Threat actors are launching about 8,226 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks per hour, Cloudflare revealed Thursday. The web infrastructure and security company said it autonomously mitigated 18.2 million network-layer (L3) DDoS attacks and 14.4 trillion HTTP DDoS requests in the third quarter of 2026. That amounts to 197,400 attacks perRead More »Cloudflare Reports 18.2 Million Network-Layer DDoS Attacks in Q3, Up 38%

Security expert insight on the $6.3 billion cryptocurrency heist.