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Kelp DAO Exploit Exposes $292 Million Gap in Bridge Security Across De Fi
8+ hour, 33+ min ago (55+ words) What happened Layer Zero Labs just confirmed it. Roughly $292 million in rs ETH was stolen from the Kelp DAO bridge after attackers went after the RPC infrastructure " the layer that sits underneath the network's verification process. Not a flashy front-end…...
AI Jailbreaking Puts Chatbot Security at Risk for Crypto and Fintech Users
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (260+ words) Chatbots are breaking. Not crashing " breaking from the inside, pushed by users who've figured out how to make them do things developers never wanted. AI jailbreaking is the practice of manipulating large language models, or LLMs, to bypass built-in restrictions…...
Pay Pal and Google Cloud Push Open Protocols for Device-to-Device Crypto Payments
1+ week, 2+ day ago (470+ words) Pay Pal and Google Cloud want machines to pay each other. No humans needed. Representatives from both companies laid out what they think needs to happen before devices can buy and sell stuff on their own. They're calling it agentic…...
Kelp Blames Layer Zero for $292 M Exploit, Jumps to Chainlink Oracles
2+ week, 20+ hour ago (295+ words) Kelp just accused Layer Zero of letting hackers drain $292 million from its platform. The De Fi protocol didn't mince words. The attack hit through what Kelp calls vulnerabilities in Layer Zero's cross-chain messaging system. Attackers basically found a way to…...
Robinhood Users Hit by Phishing Scam That Fooled Gmail's Security Filters
3+ week, 1+ day ago (474+ words) Robinhood customers got hammered by phishing emails over the weekend. Not the usual junk. These looked real. The messages came from noreply@robinhood. com, carried all the right authentication stamps, and slipped past spam filters like they belonged there. They…...
Telegram Boss Says Iran's Ban Totally Backfired on Government
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (470+ words) Pavel Durov dropped some pretty big news Tuesday. The Telegram founder said Iran's messaging ban basically blew up in the government's face, with thousands of developers now building VPNs to get around the restrictions. Iran banned Telegram back in 2018. Officials…...
Pi Network Sets April 6 Node Deadline for Major Protocol 21 Migration
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (766+ words) Pi Network kicked off its Protocol 21 migration. Node operators got until April 6 to finish updates or face getting cut from the network. The move comes as Pi's price sits pretty much flat despite all the hype around smart contracts coming…...
Decentralized Chat Apps Explode as Global Protests Rock Nations
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (673+ words) People in these countries didn't have many options when governments started cracking down on regular social media and messaging apps. Bitchat offered something different " a way to keep talking even when authorities tried to cut off internet access or monitor…...
EU Hits Tik Tok Hard Over Addiction Features
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (553+ words) European regulators just slammed Tik Tok with major demands. The European Commission said on February 7 that Tik Tok's design hooks users too much and the company better fix it fast or pay billions in fines. Fines could be brutal. Under…...