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Savannah Guthrie’s Mother Kidnapped, $6M BTC Ransom Demanded

The 84-year-old mother of TV host Savannah Guthrie was abducted from her Arizona home on February 1, with kidnappers demanding a $6 million ransom.Authorities...

Signature Phishing Spikes 207%, $6.27M Stolen in January

Signature phishing thefts surged 207% in January to $6.27 million from 4,700 victims, Scam Sniffer warned.Despite the January spike, total phishing losses in 2025...

China Urges Banks To Cut US Treasury Holdings, Shuns Trade

Chinese regulators have urged state-run banks to limit US Treasury holdings, citing concentration risk and market volatility.This move occurs as India pivots toward a...

Buterin: Real DeFi Transforms Risk, Not USDC Yield

Vitalik Buterin criticizes yield products for centralized stablecoins like USDC as insufficiently transformative for risk.He argues true DeFi must reallocate risk, proposing two alternative...

Massive Cloud-Native Malware Campaign Found Abusing Docker, Kubernetes

The TeamPCP threat cluster is running a "massive campaign" targeting misconfigured cloud-native infrastructure like Docker and Kubernetes.The attacks, observed since December 2025, deploy malware...

Dow Hits 50,000 as Tech Stocks Slide $1 Trillion in Week

The Dow Jones Industrial Average surpassed the 50,000-point milestone for the first time on Friday, driven by gains in energy and materials stocks.Technology stocks,...

Bitcoin Options Hedging Amplifies Plunge to $60K

Bitcoin's recent decline from $77,000 to near $60,000 in early February was accelerated by complex hedging activities by market makers, known as options dealers.Dealers...

Critical BeyondTrust Flaw Allows RCE

BeyondTrust has patched a critical remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-1731) in its Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access software.The vulnerability, with a CVSS score...

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UK FCA may lift ban on prediction markets for retail

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority is reportedly weighing whether to lift its 2019 ban on prediction markets for retail...

PEEP malware: Chrome extension hijacks browsers, steals data

Researchers at SOCRadar uncovered a Chrome/Edge post-exploitation toolkit called PEEP that masquerades as a "Smart Bookmarks" extension.The malware bypasses...

Starcloud mining Bitcoin in space is a really crazy $2B idea

Starcloud, a data centers-in-space startup, raised nearly $500 million at a $2 billion valuation for a concept critics call...

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