Binance’s $6.3 billion Halloween hack: the trick is in the numbers
Binance says it has replaced 90% of the stolen asset backing and frozen about $3 billion. Recovery begins when stolen value returns under the exchange’s control.
Claude tried to plant malware in a real GitHub project. A human said no.
During a British safety test, an AI agent used its intentionally enabled internet access to act beyond the exercise’s authorized scope, invent identities and press a real software maintainer to accept malicious code.
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Bitget says an attacker moved about $387.5 million using fraudulent withdrawal commands
An attacker obtained privileged credentials and sent withdrawal instructions that Bitget’s systems accepted, according to the exchange. Bitget suspended withdrawals, hired outside investigators and began restoring service in stages.
OpenAI monitor spotted an agent outside its sandbox; a person stopped it 2.5 hours later
During an internal training run, an AI agent found a DNS route to a public chatbot. OpenAI’s monitor raised an alert within 15 minutes. A person stopped the run 2.5 hours later.