GCSA Insight: BlockBeats Poisoned by DarkSword Attack Chain, iPhone Wallets at Risk of Theft
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ZoeyThe University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Global Cybersecurity Alliance (GCSA) announced the joint establishment of the Centre for AI and Cybersecurity Research.
ZoeyGoogle software engineer Michele Spagnuolo had been charged with using non-public “Year in Search 2025” data accessible through Google's internal systems to trade related event contracts on the prediction market platform Polymarket.
GCSA InsightOn April 23, 2026, Tether announced that it had cooperated with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and law enforcement agencies to freeze two USDT addresses on the TRON network, with a total frozen amount of approximately 344 million USDT.
GCSA InsightThis document details Ethereum's future upgrade roadmap, named "Strawmap".
JinseFinanceWhat happened? Who was behind the Binance hack? How was the attack carried out? How much of the stolen assets have been frozen?
JinseFinanceHackers stole billions from Binance, which froze about US$3 billion and halted withdrawals. The exchange estimates the impact at US$6.3 billion and says it will cover all losses.
AnaisThis week, 16 blockchain startups raised $1.1 billion. Kalshi raised $1 billion in its Series G funding round, the largest funding round of the week.
JinseFinanceAttackers only need to find one vulnerability, while defenders must patch all of them. When hacking groups are equipped with AI tools, this math problem becomes unfriendly to all centralized platforms.
JinseFinanceSeveral industry insiders have pointed out that the theft may have been committed by North Korean hackers.
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Crédit Mutuel Arkéa has confirmed it was hit by a cyberattack in which hackers used an outside service provider's platform to make fraudulent transfers out of the bank's own accounts. The bank says the situation is under control and customers will not lose money, though it has not confirmed the final loss.
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Hackers got into Hybe’s internal systems through an outside vendor’s document preview tool, on 12 to 13 September and 3 to 5 October 2026, and took personal details of current and former staff and partner company workers, including passport numbers, bank details and medical records. Hybe has reported the breach to the authorities and is telling those affected, but it has not said how many people were hit.
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A Canadian judge has ordered the return of a laptop containing a Bitcoin wallet to the family of William Sandeson, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence for killing fellow Dalhousie University student Taylor Samson in 2015.
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The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Global Cybersecurity Alliance (GCSA) announced the joint establishment of the Centre for AI and Cybersecurity Research.
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China Resources Longdi Smart Network Security and GCSA jointly established the AI and Network Security Research Center, focusing on AI-based anti-fraud and threat detection.
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Revolut's $115 billion valuation is supported by payments, subscriptions, and cross-border distribution, while Nubank earns real profits through consumer credit and local market penetration. Stablecoins are bringing these two paths together.
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Jinse Finance launches the "Jinse Web3.0 Daily," providing you with the latest and fastest news on AI, DeFi, DAO, NFT, and the metaverse.
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GCSA disclosed its ecosystem product matrix: 380 million users, 91.3% success rate in evaluations, and its security capabilities are moving towards comprehensive joint defense.
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Of Circle's $865 million in revenue in the third quarter, $182 million came from pre-sale revenue of ARC tokens; excluding this, the reserve interest income from its main business is still shrinking year-on-year.
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Blockchain has found product-market fit in prediction markets, perpetual contracts, and stablecoins, but the value is all taken by the platforms that control the users; the chain itself is just a conduit.
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The CFTC has approved perpetual contracts for a single stock for the first time, and Wall Street is beginning to learn from the crypto market. The boundaries between US stock market TradeFi and Crypto are disappearing.
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Binance suspended withdrawals for about 56 hours, and trading volume shifted to platforms such as OKX, but funds did not migrate on a large scale simultaneously.
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The Democratic Party's landslide victory in the midterm elections dashed Musk's $4.7 billion political bet, causing Tesla and SpaceX stock prices to plummet. The change of government in Texas further exacerbated the already strained data center and government contracts.
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The Fed held rates steady and rising TGA rates led to a marginal tightening of liquidity, with BTC repeatedly battling around the 77.9k cost level; ETFs saw net outflows in a single week, and the rebound still lacked support from spot buyers.
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Mercado Bitcoin suffered a loss of nearly $40 million. Beosin Trace tracking shows that approximately $30 million is scattered across Bitcoin, Solana, and Ethereum, with some USDC and USDT already frozen.
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Warren Buffett's quote, "Nobody wants to get rich slowly," enlightened the author: Instead of obsessively searching for 100x coins, it's better to find assets that you truly understand and can hold for the long term.
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The Hong Kong Legislative Council passed the CARF bill, which will begin collecting information on crypto transactions in 2027 and exchange it with partner jurisdictions in 2028; South Korea, on the other hand, postponed its crypto income tax for another two years to 2029.
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While Anthropic was developing drugs for rare diseases and cancer using Claude, it also burned through $3.17 billion in marketing expenses in six months and banned employees from wearing brand merchandise to prevent espionage.
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Huobi HTX reviews the performance of representative coins in ten major sectors over the past year: HYPE and ZEC rose against the trend, while most assets are looking for direction around the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement level.
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General-purpose L2 is no longer a good business. Scroll plans to transform its public chain into a private AI network around Compass in about nine months, migrate SCR back to the Ethereum mainnet, and keep the token economics unchanged.
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Bitcoin has fallen about 10% from its September high and is now retesting the breakout level from August. The percentage of short-term holders with profits has dropped from 97.5% to 38%, indicating that long leverage has been cleared. The $73,000 to $76,000 range is the next area to watch.
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Hackers spent months penetrating Binance to gain internal signing privileges, resulting in the theft of $6.3 billion, making it the largest cryptocurrency theft in history; the private keys were not lost, but the defenses collapsed due to personnel and access issues.
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AI is driving the cost of software production to zero. Interfaces and code are no longer scarce. What is truly scarce are network states that accumulate over time, such as liquidity, identity, and reputation.
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Texas has welcomed its first Democratic governor in over 30 years, and Wolf Research has directly characterized Texas as a "model for the anti-AI construction movement." Goldman Sachs warns that this "blue tsunami" will lead to a halt in approximately 45% of planned data center expansions in the United States.
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Kraken has restricted accounts linked to a suspected cryptocurrency theft exceeding $133 million from an unidentified European Union entity, as exchanges and law enforcement attempt to contain the movement of stolen funds.
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Under the dual constraints of escalating political maneuvering and pressure on long-term debt supply, there is a lack of logical support for a significant decline in long-term US Treasury yields or for them to enter a downward trend.
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