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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A hardware wallet’s strongest cryptography offers little protection when an attacker can interfere with the device before its owner even switches it on. That is the uncomfortable lesson from the CryptoBilis case now facing Ledger customers in Southeast Asia. TL;DR: Investigators have linked roughly $90 million or more in reported crypto losses to tampered wallet devices sold through a reseller channel. Ledger says its own systems were not compromised and has warned affected customers to move to newly generated recovery phrases. The incident involves physical modifications rather…

In brief Strive bought 4,045 BTC between October 12 and 16 at about $82,803 each, raising its holdings to 36,818 BTC. Warrant exercises on October 12 and 13 raised about $369.2 million and added 13,674,703 Class A shares, and no traditional warrants remain. Strive priced a $630 million offering of 15% SATS preferred stock on October 15, set to settle October 20. Strive, a Nasdaq-listed company that holds Bitcoin as a treasury asset, bought 4,045 BTC between October 12 and 16, according to a regulatory filing published Monday.The average price was about $82,803 per coin, meaning the stash was worth…

Kraken’s Unified Wallet rollout to eligible European Economic Area clients can expose crypto held for spot trading and qualifying Earn balances to futures losses after users switch it on. Its default cross-margin setting allows a losing position to draw on the account’s entire eligible balance.The exchange announced EEA availability on October 16, 2026. Unified Wallet combines eligible spot, margin, Earn and futures balances on Kraken Pro, removing the need to transfer collateral into a separate futures wallet.The announcement includes eligible Earn balances without identifying every qualifying product. Kraken’s wallet guide, which describes the default wallet setup, distinguishes active staking and…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Crypto’s third-quarter security bill came to $1.18 billion, but the headline total is only part of Hacken’s latest warning. The firm recorded 107 incidents between July and September, with smart-contract exploits taking a much larger share of losses than they did three months earlier. TL;DR: Hacken reported $1.18 billion stolen across 107 incidents in Q3 2026, up 55% from Q2. Smart-contract exploits accounted for 48% of losses, compared with 12% in the previous quarter. Access-control and operational failures made up 40%. According to Hacken’s Q3 2026 Security…

In brief Mastercard launched Stablecoin Security, a risk-intelligence tool that lets financial institutions screen stablecoin payments for fraud, scams and sanctions exposure across the transaction lifecycle, generating a risk score before a payment settles. Delivered via a platform-agnostic API with partners Borderless.xyz and Keyrails, it addresses a blind spot flagged by a BIS study finding nearly 60% of 2025 stablecoin transfers were complex, multi-step transactions. It extends Mastercard’s stablecoin push—from its BVNK-powered Global Money Platform to AI-agent payments—launching first in North America, with global availability in 2027. Mastercard is extending its fraud-fighting playbook to stablecoins, launching a tool that lets…

In brief Bitcoin trades at $82,164, just above the a key support line, after touching $83,040 today and giving back part of the gain. Oil near $108, 3.7% inflation, and a 10-year yield above 5% keep rate-hike fears alive, while spot Bitcoin ETFs lost about $910 million in two weeks. Technical indicators on the charts suggest caution for traders in the near term. Bitcoin continues to defy seasonal ‘Uptober” expectations, as macroeconomic factors weigh heavily on the digital asset.Bitcoin is hovering around $82,000 on Monday, up about 1% on the day, after tagging $83,000 early and handing some of it…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The arrest count is striking, but the scale of the online infrastructure removed may be the bigger story. An international effort against West African scam networks has resulted in 28 arrests, while technology companies say they removed more than 3.7 million accounts, pages and groups linked to fraudulent activity. TL;DR: The US Justice Department says its October crackdown led to 28 arrests in Ghana and Nigeria. Binance and Coinbase were among the industry participants, and partners identified more than $11 million in potentially freezable funds, not confirmed…