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Core Lightning has told operators to update to version 26.06.8 immediately after confirming active attacks against nodes running 26.06.7 or earlier, warning that funds held in routing channels could be at risk.
Guardia Civil investigated four members of a family in Cáceres for allegedly running a fake crypto investment scheme that used forged bank statements, staged events and more than 90 bank cards to move victims' money.
THORChain says its architecture cannot selectively freeze transactions, rejecting Bitget's request to stop attackers from moving stolen assets through the network.
Bitget has revised its estimate of funds stolen in a wallet breach to $387.5 million after adding zcash and tron to the list of compromised assets, and has launched a bounty programme offering 5% of recovered or frozen funds.
On-chain analysts have traced a portion of the funds stolen from Bitget to wallets linked to North Korea's Lazarus-affiliated TraderTraitor group, yet no government or agency has issued formal attribution, a striking contrast to the swift response after last year's Bybit hack.
Gracy Chen said attackers compromised a critical wallet server and manipulated transaction records to push through unauthorised transfers, as Bitget brings in Mandiant and SlowMist to investigate.
The FBI's Operation Blackout shut more than 500 fraud sites and warned over 10,000 potential US victims, but the headline $15 billion figure is largely the paper value of one bitcoin lot already in government custody, tied to Cambodia's Prince Holding Group.
The FINMA-supervised bitcoin payments platform took its infrastructure offline on September 14 after detecting likely unauthorized access, with emails, IBANs, BTC addresses and transaction histories reportedly exposed.