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Top story Binance says fake job interview and internal AI tool led to $6.3 billion hack

Binance's incident report attributes the record theft to months-long social engineering of employees, with North Korea-linked attackers exploiting hot-wallet signing infrastructure via Ethereum's EIP-7702 mechanism.

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North Korea denies role in $6.3B Binance hack after FBI points to TraderTraitor

Pyongyang's state media rejected the FBI's attribution of the largest crypto exploit in history, which named North Korean wallet addresses tied to the theft.

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CFTC clears perpetual futures on individual stocks for first time in US

The approval brings a crypto-native trading model to Wall Street and prompted a lawsuit from a Citadel-backed group arguing stock perps belong under SEC jurisdiction.

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Bitcoin slips below $77,000 as ETF outflows and midterms weigh on crypto

Spot ETFs bled hundreds of millions for a second day as chip stocks slid into correction and Bitcoin faced its fifth straight weekly decline.

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Bitcoin ETFs post nearly $400 million in net outflows for second straight day

BlackRock's IBIT logged its biggest outflow since June at $405 million as the Binance hack and election uncertainty dampened sentiment.

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Brazil's Mercado Bitcoin pledges to refund users after $40 million hack

The exchange said partners including Tether, Circle and Chainalysis helped freeze roughly $11 million of the stolen assets.

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Liquid Network restores full bitcoin backing after $320 million exploit

A final 250 BTC transfer closed the hole left by September's bug, with Blockstream providing the funds, though the federation has not disclosed who paid.

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Tether holds 150,000 bitcoin worth $11.5 billion, CEO Ardoino says

The disclosure is about 50,000 BTC more than Tether's reserve report shows, with Ardoino not saying where the extra coins sit.

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CZ warns of AI-driven hacks, calls for industry security alliance after Binance breach

In his first interview since the heist, Changpeng Zhao said automated tools are lowering the barrier for complex breaches and urged an industry-wide response.

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South Korea's president seeks 'cybersecurity czar' after $6.3 billion Binance hack

President Lee Jae Myung wants a government-wide agency to tackle cyberattacks, while the central bank surveyed its largest lenders on crypto hack exposure.

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Amazon, Tesla and SpaceX join OKX-ICE tokenized stock objections as 56 firms push back

Nearly 80% of the venture's initial stock selection has opted out of the tokenized securities venue ahead of a looming deadline.

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Justin Sun seeks sanctions against Trump-linked World Liberty Financial over UAE ties

The Tron founder alleges World Liberty failed to disclose its UAE connections until months into his lawsuit over $45 million in WLFI tokens, and plans to refile in California state court.

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Arbitrum council moved $30 million of Binance hack funds without the hacker's key

A 12-person committee briefly rewrote one of Arbitrum's core contracts to spend from an address it held no key for, the second such intervention this year.

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SEC division views Canton Coin as digital commodity in no-action letter

The Division of Corporation Finance said it won't recommend enforcement over Canton Coin's programmatic issuance, another signal of the SEC's shifting crypto posture.

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