Security

An attempted kidnapping targeting the wife of Sébastien Borget, co-founder and COO of The Sandbox, took place at the couple’s home in Villenoy, France.

MAPO, the native token of Map Protocol, crashed after an exploit involving the Butter Network cross-chain bridge allowed an attacker to mint approximately one quadrillion tokens through a Solidity contract vulnerability.

AI-powered crypto trading assistant Bankr froze transactions after attackers gained unauthorized access to at least 14 user wallets.

Echo Protocol suffered a major exploit after an attacker minted around 1,000 unauthorized eBTC tokens worth approximately $76.7 million on the Monad blockchain.

Crypto users are being warned about a phishing campaign that disguises malicious emails as legitimate Google security notifications.

DeFi protocol Verus is reportedly dealing with a major exploit involving its Ethereum bridge, with blockchain security firms estimating losses of approximately $11.58 million.

THORChain temporarily paused trading after blockchain researchers ZachXBT and PeckShield identified suspicious wallet activity linked to a suspected cross-chain exploit.

CoinMarketCap warned crypto users about scammers promoting fake “CMC Tokens” while falsely claiming they are connected to the platform.

TrustedVolumes confirmed that it suffered a crypto exploit that resulted in approximately $6.7 million in stolen assets being moved across three Ethereum wallets.