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Ark buys $3.4M of Coinbase shares on the day Morgan Stanley turns bearish
Ark Invest bought $3.4 million of Coinbase shares on November 2 as Morgan Stanley cut the stock to underweight with a $120 target.
Tue, Nov 3
CrowdStrike turns “AI safety” into a product as rogue-agent incidents pile up
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) unveiled an AI Kill Switch to security teams at the company’s Fal.Con Europe event in Barcelona on Tuesday. The cybersecurity firm is marketing the product inside its Falcon Guardian product as a solution to AI agent misbehavior incidents that have made headlines recently. How does CrowdStrike’s AI kill switch work? CrowdStrike is...
Tue, Nov 3
Russian programmer targeted in 10.4 BTC crypto kidnapping after luxury-car photos
Russian prosecutors from the Ivanovo area arraigned five men on charges related to a kidnapping to extract 10.4 BTC from a programmer. The defendants, mostly ex-convicts, face up to 15 years on these new charges. Per the Kommersant local media outlet, the victim, who is in his early 20s, landed on the suspects’ radar after...
Tue, Nov 3
South Korea's Lee pushes cybersecurity 'czar' body after Binance hack
South Korea’s president wants one strong agency to lead the country’s fight against hackers. Following a huge crypto theft at Binance and several attacks on Korean financial firms, President Lee Jae Myung has asked officials to study the idea of building an agency. What did South Korea’s president ask for? At a cabinet meeting at...
Tue, Nov 3
ZachXBT accuses Western European institution of hiding $133M crypto theft
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT noted Tuesday that the still undisclosed crypto loss at an unnamed Western European institution has climbed past $133 million, up from the $106 million figure he cited one day earlier. ZachXBT, who has previously forced disclosures after going public with crypto breaches, is now alleging that the affected EU entity is concealing...
Tue, Nov 3
Binance spends half its SAFU bitcoin to cover the $6.3B hack
Binance's SAFU wallet holds 7,500 BTC after a 7,499 BTC transfer on October 31 tied to its $6.3 billion hack, with no timeline to refill it.
Tue, Nov 3
Altcoins and tokens stall in October, underperforming 'Uptober' narrative
Crypto altcoins and tokens contracted in October, cutting short the trend of increasing crypto market breadth.
Tue, Nov 3
NEAR governance votes to cut issuance, trimming staker yield to 3.37%
NEAR's House of Stake approved HSP-029, cutting max issuance from 2.5% to 1.6%. The proposal models staking yield falling from about 5.27% to 3.37%.
Tue, Nov 3
Binance hacker spreads 233.46 million stolen XRP over six wallets Ripple has no power to freeze
The Binance attacker moved all 233.46 million stolen XRP into six fresh wallets on Monday. Native XRP has no issuer that can freeze it.
Tue, Nov 3
North Korea's Kim Yo Jong rejects FBI blame for $6 billion Binance hack
North Korea's Kim Yo Jong called the FBI's Binance hack attribution "absurd rhetoric" and a "grave political provocation" in a November 2 statement.
Tue, Nov 3
NCSC warns AI-powered ransomware likely to hit UK infrastructure by 2028
Britain’s cyber agency has warned that AI may soon help criminals disrupt essential services. On November 3, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said AI-based malware could be used in ransomware attacks against UK critical infrastructure by 2028. The warning has not been confirmed yet. The warning covers how quickly criminals could take advantage of vulnerabilities that...
Tue, Nov 3
Solana Stablecoin Card Spending Hits Record $141M in October, Up 7x in a Year
Stablecoin card spending on the Solana network reached a record $141.1 million in October, according to data from Paymentscan. This makes it the fourth consecutive monthly high for stablecoin card spending on the network. October’s total makes it roughly seven times the around $20 million recorded in the same month last year and about 24%...
Tue, Nov 3
Anthropic warns AI-built AI could outrun safety and tilt markets
Artificial intelligence is taking up more of the tasks necessary for creating stronger models. Anthropic claims that Claude is already ensuring that the process happens faster, although it is still unable to create a successor by itself. The company, in a June 4 evaluation, said that the advancement of AI creates a risk of the...
Tue, Nov 3
1.3M Android TV boxes exposed as Google disrupts XCPE botnet
Google and its partners disrupted XCPE, a botnet involving more than 1.3 million Android TV set-top boxes, the company announced on November 2. The action removed the criminals’ remote access to the boxes. However, the malicious software remains hidden in their firmware. For those who bought the boxes, the concern is what will happen now....
Tue, Nov 3
THORChain faces FBI pressure as Binance hack funds move across DeFi
Following Binance’s roughly $6.3 billion hack, the FBI asked THORChain node operators and other decentralized finance (DeFi) services to block transactions linked to the stolen funds. The request came on October 31. THORChain’s nodes operate independently, and no single authority can make them block the transactions. What the FBI asked for, and what Barraford said...
Tue, Nov 3
OpenAI to test merged ChatGPT Chat and Work as agent costs draw scrutiny
OpenAI doesn’t want ChatGPT merely to respond to inquiries. The company intends to conduct tests aimed at combining the ChatGPT bot and Work business agent features into one interface. Users will switch from asking a question to finishing a project without having to switch interfaces. OpenAI will first test the merged interface with a small...
Tue, Nov 3
FinoLama Strengthens Decision-Making Through Market Analytics
Reliable information plays an increasingly important role in modern investing and trading. Market conditions can shift quickly in response to economic developments, corporate activity, sector trends and wider financial events, making timely analysis a valuable part of the decision-making process. FinoLama supports its clients with analytical resources designed to bring greater structure and clarity to...
Tue, Nov 3
Animoca Brands wins Abu Dhabi fund management license as crypto VC cools
Animoca Brands has successfully crossed a major hurdle in Abu Dhabi. On November 2, it announced that its subsidiary had received permission from the authorities to operate collective investment funds. This now gives the cryptocurrency investor a regulated way to raise funds as venture capital investment in the industry shrinks. No funds or investment commitments...
Mon, Nov 2
Brazil's Mercado Bitcoin to absorb $40M hack loss, says customer funds are safe
Mercado Bitcoin froze deposits and withdrawals on Monday, November 2, following a breach of one of its systems. The exchange, which is the largest in Brazil, says no customer lost money and that it will cover the losses itself. Outside analysts say that the total loss is north of $40 million. When did Mercado Bitcoin...
Mon, Nov 2
Binance completes proof of reserves after $6.3B hack as withdrawals resume
Binance has provided new statistics that back its commitment to protecting customers after a hack that cost $6.3 billion. The company conducted a cryptographic verification of its reserves snapshot as of October 31 on Monday. It verified that at least ten major tokens are backed one-to-one. Its 335 million users can verify it for themselves,...
Mon, Nov 2
