FIN-CRYPTO

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Sep
Dark Caracal Puts a Smart Contract to Work: Blockchain as a Fallback Channel for an Old Lebanese Espionage Toolkit- 336

Dark Caracal Puts a Smart Contract to Work: Blockchain as a Fallback Channel for an Old Lebanese Espionage Toolkit- 336

September 1, 2026 Dark Caracal has been running intelligence-gathering operations out of Lebanon's General Directorate of General
4 min read
10
Sep
Berlin's No: A Ransomware Extortion Collides With a State Election- 332

Berlin's No: A Ransomware Extortion Collides With a State Election- 332

September 2, 2026 A city-state government's refusal to pay a ransom is rarely news in itself; what
4 min read
07
Sep
Nothing Broken, Everything Exploited: Crypto Theft Spreads Across the Entire Stack- 312

Nothing Broken, Everything Exploited: Crypto Theft Spreads Across the Entire Stack- 312

August 6,2026 Four cryptocurrency-theft incidents surfacing within a two-week window share a detail worth pausing on before
7 min read
04
Sep
The Authentic Trap: How H1 2026's Scam Campaigns Learned to Borrow Trust Instead of Faking It- 305

The Authentic Trap: How H1 2026's Scam Campaigns Learned to Borrow Trust Instead of Faking It- 305

August 15, 2026 Security vendors publish threat reports constantly, and most of them read the same way: a pie chart
4 min read
04
Sep
One Regime, Four Fronts: Inside North Korea's Parallel Cyber Enterprise- 302

One Regime, Four Fronts: Inside North Korea's Parallel Cyber Enterprise- 302

August 8, 2026 It would be easier to track North Korea's state-linked cyber activity if it all
8 min read
03
Aug
When cybercrime borrows a spy's toolkit: the UAT-11795 campaign hiding inside everyday software- 292

When cybercrime borrows a spy's toolkit: the UAT-11795 campaign hiding inside everyday software- 292

July 18, 2026 A financially motivated, Russian-speaking hacking crew has spent over a year quietly trojanizing the installers of
5 min read
19
Jul
ClawSwarm proves you can hijack an AI agent without writing a single line of malware- 244

ClawSwarm proves you can hijack an AI agent without writing a single line of malware- 244

April 29, 2026 Thirty seemingly ordinary AI agent skills, published by a single anonymous author and downloaded nearly 10,000
3 min read
19
Jul
THORChain's breach is a rounding error in 2026's record year for crypto theft- 242

THORChain's breach is a rounding error in 2026's record year for crypto theft- 242

June 28, 2026 THORChain, a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange founded in Switzerland in 2018, lost roughly $10.7 million on a
2 min read
05
Jul
North Korea's Two-Tier Crypto War: Precision Heists and Industrial Harvesting- 209

North Korea's Two-Tier Crypto War: Precision Heists and Industrial Harvesting- 209

June 18, 2026 North Korea does not hack cryptocurrency platforms for profit in the way criminal groups do — opportunistically, in
5 min read
05
Jul
The Shadow Economy: Pig-Butchering and the Industrialization of Trust Fraud- 195

The Shadow Economy: Pig-Butchering and the Industrialization of Trust Fraud- 195

June 22, 2026 For years, the cybercrime phenomenon known as "pig-butchering" was comfortably categorized by security taxonomies
5 min read