CLARITY Act: Two Weeks Left, Odds Fall to 30%
Galaxy Research cut its probability of the CLARITY Act becoming law in 2026 to 30%, down from 50% in late June, as the Senate faces a two-week window before its August recess. Seven Democratic...
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Kelp DAO Ditches LayerZero for Chainlink CCIP After $292M Exploit
Kelp DAO has announced it will migrate its restaking token rsETH to Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol following the April 18 exploit that drained 116,500 rsETH tokens worth approximately $292 million from its LayerZero-powered bridge....
April 2026 Sets All-Time Crypto Hack Record: $630M Lost in 30 Incidents
April 2026 is now the most damaging month in crypto history, with CertiK reporting $630 million stolen across roughly 30 separate exploits confirmed by DeFiLlama. Two state-sponsored attacks accounted for the overwhelming majority of...
Lazarus Group’s Mach-O Man Malware Targets Crypto Executives on macOS
North Korea’s Lazarus Group has deployed a new macOS malware campaign called “Mach-O Man,” using fake Zoom and Google Meet invitations to trick crypto and fintech executives into executing malicious commands on their own...
North Korea’s DeFi Infiltration Predates Drift by Years, Researchers Warn
North Korean IT workers have been embedding themselves inside decentralized finance protocols for at least seven years, according to cybersecurity researcher Taylor Monahan, a developer at MetaMask. The disclosure lands days after Drift Protocol...
Drift Protocol’s $280M Hack Traced to North Korean Intelligence Operation
Drift Protocol has linked its $280 million exploit, executed on April 1, to a six-month social engineering campaign attributed with “medium-high confidence” to North Korean state-linked threat actors. The Solana-based perpetuals exchange published preliminary...
Bitrefill Hack Exposes 18,500 Records, Lazarus Group Identified as Likely Attacker
Bitrefill, the crypto-to-gift-card platform, disclosed on March 17 that a cyberattack on March 1 drained funds from its hot wallets and exposed approximately 18,500 purchase records, with investigators pointing to North Korea’s Lazarus Group...