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- The $6.3 Billion Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutesby Matt Burgess on October 30, 2026 at 11:36 am
Multiple crypto-tracing firms say notorious North Korean hackers TraderTraitor may be behind the largest digital heist in history—with billions of crypto likely gone for good.
- A Hacker Targeted High-Stakes Poker Players With Malware That Exposed Their Cardsby Ben Dowsett on October 29, 2026 at 10:30 am
Illicit software on the computers of some of the world’s best online poker players allowed the accused cheater to see what cards were in the victims’ hands—and trounce them at the tables.
- Bluesky Is Blocking Links to a Major Leak of DHS Employee Recordsby Dhruv Mehrotra, Maddy Varner, Dell Cameron on October 29, 2026 at 3:34 am
Bluesky tells WIRED it blocked links to a leaked archive of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers because it contains people’s contact information, shared without their authorization.
- Most Servers on the Planet Are Vulnerable to This Firmware Code-Execution Flawby Dan Goodin, Ars Technica on October 28, 2026 at 8:30 pm
The critical flaw in UEFI firmware—used by most server vendors and data centers—allows attackers to execute code early in the boot process.
- Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agentsby Dhruv Mehrotra, Maddy Varner, Dell Cameron on October 28, 2026 at 8:00 pm
The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers’ cell phone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI’s Grok chatbot.
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- Trezor Warns of Suspected Hardware Implant in One of Its Wallets Sold by CryptoBilisby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on October 30, 2026 at 12:21 pm
A Trezor Safe 5 hardware wallet bought from the reseller CryptoBilis has an extra circuit board that sends out the recovery phrase over a mobile network, a customer has reported. Trezor has not yet examined the device. It is telling everyone who bought a Trezor from CryptoBilis since March 2026 to move their funds to a new wallet with a new recovery phrase. Trezor said in a blog post 
- Why Urgent Security Fixes Aren’t Fixed. Observe, Prove, Act, Confirm Gets Them Movingby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on October 30, 2026 at 11:58 am
The alert is critical. The fix is known. And the ticket sits in a queue for days. Security teams understand the risk, but the people who keep applications available need proof that the change won’t break anything. Their concerns are practical. An IPS protection could block legitimate traffic. A configuration change could interrupt a service. An endpoint policy could affect an application
- Syrian Hacker Behind Fake Tweet That Triggered $136 Billion Market Drop Gets 42 Months in Prisonby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on October 30, 2026 at 10:40 am
Ahmad Umar Agha, a Syrian Electronic Army hacker known online as “Th3Pr0,” has been sentenced by a U.S. federal court to 42 months in prison for his role in a hacking conspiracy that targeted Western news outlets. The conspiracy was organized and led by members of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle, including the commander of Syria’s General Intelligence
- Official Claude Code Extension on Cursor Marketplace Trojanized with Persistent SSH Backdoorby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on October 30, 2026 at 8:55 am
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that a trojanized version of Anthropic’s official Claude Code extension was distributed through the Cursor Marketplace as a legitimate update, attempting to install a persistent SSH backdoor on affected systems. The malicious update, version 2.1.313, was distributed under the extension’s legitimate publisher identity, prompting Cursor to temporarily shut
- Hackers Actively Exploit Highly Critical Drupal Commerce Core Authorization Bypass Flawby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on October 30, 2026 at 7:45 am
Drupal has warned that threat actors are exploiting a “highly critical” security flaw in its Commerce Core component. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-118539 (CVSS score: N/A), is a case of missing authorization affecting Commerce Core versions from 0.0.0 to 2.41 and from 3.0.0 to 3.3.13. “This module enables you to sell goods and services to customers through an included shopping cart









