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Crypto Theft Fell to $972M in H1 2026, but North Korea's Share Climbed to Two-Thirds
In the first half of 2026, attackers stole about $972 million from the cryptocurrency industry across 207 incidents, according to a mid-year report from analytics firm TRM Labs. The figure is down by more than half from the same period in 2025, when losses were put at $2.3 billion. Despite the overall decline, the share tied to North Korea has actually grown. Analysts attribute roughly $643 million, about 66% of the half-year total, to the Lazarus Group and its TraderTraitor subunit. Almost all
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Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Flaws, Two Zero-Days Already Under Attack
On Tuesday, July 14, Microsoft shipped the largest set of fixes in Patch Tuesday history, closing 570 vulnerabilities at once. Attackers are already exploiting two of them in the wild, and a third was publicly disclosed before the patch landed. The most serious of the exploited bugs is CVE-2026-56164 in Microsoft SharePoint Server. A missing authentication check in a critical function lets an unauthenticated attacker escalate privileges across the network, with no password at all. Researchers a
Crypto Theft Fell to $972M in H1 2026, but North Korea's Share Climbed to Two-Thirds
In the first half of 2026, attackers stole about $972 million from the cryptocurrency industry across 207 incidents, according to a mid-year report from analytics firm TRM Labs. The figure is down by more than half from the same period in 2025, when losses were put at $2.3 billion. Despite the overall decline, the share tied to North Korea has actually grown. Analysts attribute roughly $643 million, about 66% of the half-year total, to the Lazarus Group and its TraderTraitor subunit. Almost all
The EU and UK Hit Russia With Their First Joint Cyber Sanctions
The sanctions target FSB Centre 16, the arm of Russian intelligence behind one of the world's most durable hacking operations, over a decade of attacks on Europe including an attempt to black out Poland in winter.
Fake FSB Officer Tried to Shake Down the Conti Ransomware Gang
A Moscow man allegedly posed as an FSB officer and demanded money from one of the most dangerous ransomware crews in history. He is now in jail.