AmericanFortress researchers introduced a patent-pending post-quantum signature scheme that could secure the global crypto ecosystem against future quantum attacks without requiring mass fund migrations. According to the company, the breakthrough means even Satoshi Nakamoto’s huge 1.1 million bitcoin stash, alongside nearly 5 million BTC in dormant accounts, can be saved, with a combined value of […]
AI agents are getting good enough at finding attack vectors in smart contracts that they can already be weaponized by bad actors, according to new research published by the Anthropic Fellows program. A study by the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars Program (MATS) and the Anthropic Fellows program tested frontier models against SCONE-bench, a dataset […]
Data from Lookonchain shows an early bitcoin BTC$111,379.36 miner wallet holding 4,000 BTC (around $442 million) has become active for the first time in 14 years. The wallet, identified as 18eY9o, transferred 150 BTC (roughly $16.6 million) after years of dormancy. These coins were originally mined in 2009 and consolidated into the wallet in 2011. […]
Charles Guillemet, chief technology officer at hardware wallet maker Ledger, warned on X on Monday that a large-scale supply chain attack is underway after the compromise of a reputable developer’s Node Package Manager (NPM) account. According to Guillemet, the malicious code — already pushed into packages with over 1 billion downloads — is designed to […]