The Echo Protocol hack revealed DeFi’s growing operational security crisis after attackers minted $76.7M fake eBTC using a stolen admin key.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back called five transactions burning 107 BTC to Bitcoin's burn address an accidental quantum bounty.

Private key compromises led crypto hack losses over the past decade as recent DeFi exploits show attackers moving beyond smart contract bugs. Private key compromises are emerging as one of crypto’s ...

Google's Quantum AI team said earlier this week that a future quantum computer could derive a bitcoin private key from a public key in roughly nine minutes. The number ricocheted across social media ...