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South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service will launch financial education aimed at strengthening asset-management skills among job seekers and preventing losses from virtual-asset investment scams and fraudulent high-paying overseas job offers, The Herald Business reported. The agency plans to brief prospective…

A security incident worth about $6 million occurred at an anonymous vault contract on Ethereum layer-two network Base after an access control flaw was exploited. According to a GoPlus security alert, the attacker added a malicious contract to Safe multisig’s…

Kelman PLLC, a law firm focused on digital assets, said an investor’s failure to receive tokens after a project’s expected launch date has passed does not automatically constitute a breach of contract. Whether a breach has actually occurred depends on…

Italian private banking firm Fideuram wired around €95 million ($102.6 million) after falling victim to an international impersonation scam involving people posing as executives at parent company Intesa Sanpaolo, local outlet Corriere Milano reported. Of that amount, €36 million ($38.9…

About 114.09 ETH worth of assets was stolen after a vulnerability in the Loop Safe Module, which is linked to Aave v3, was exploited, blockchain security firm SlowMist said. SlowMist said the attacker abused a flaw that let fake Safe…

The International Monetary Fund has completed its second and third reviews of El Salvador’s loan program and approved about $138 million in funding, Reuters reported. Although El Salvador did not meet the IMF’s condition limiting Bitcoin accumulation, the IMF granted…

Near Intents, a cross-chain intent protocol based on NEAR, said a hack caused about $3.8 million in losses. The protocol said the incident stemmed from a bug in interactions between its omni deposit and withdrawal infrastructure and the Near Intents…

Crypto exchange BitMart has unveiled a preliminary restructuring plan tied to the roughly $319.5 million hack in December 2021, according to Crypto Briefing. The exchange plans to convert users’ holdings into U.S. dollar terms based on the weighted average price…

Starting this month, payment suspensions and refund procedures will be allowed for voice-phishing losses involving virtual assets, while food delivery app operators must also inform merchants on their platforms about country-of-origin labeling rules. South Korea’s Ministry of Government Legislation said…

EVM security researcher kaden.eth said on X that on-chain analysis suggests some block rewards from MetaMask validators were diverted to addresses linked to an attacker, and MetaMask appears to have proactively withdrawn about 17,000 validators, or roughly 523,000 ETH. Of…