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BitcoinWorld Joseph Lubin to Speak at KBW2026 with Upbit, Joining S&P Global and White House Digital Asset Officials FactBlock, the organizer of Korea Blockchain Week (KBW), announced on Aug. 24 that Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and CEO of Consensys, will join the speaker lineup for the main conference of KBW2026 with Upbit. The event is scheduled to take place in Seoul, South Korea, and will gather global leaders in blockchain, finance, and […] This post Joseph Lubin to Speak at...

In Brief A researcher spent 22 months inside North Korean hacker servers. His logs name 1,640 breached organizations across 57 countries. Some contractors held live credentials for as many as 30 firms. A Greek security researcher reportedly spent 22 months inside North Korean hacking servers. He came out with a victim list of 1,640 organizations in 57 countries. Vangelis Stykas is chief technology officer at security firm Kumio. He presented the findings this week at Black Hat in Las Vegas....

Crypto hacks stole $763,971,791 across 67 incidents in Q2 2026, with accessibility weaknesses the single biggest point of failure.  The state of crypto hacks in Q2 2026 According to a recent report by blockchain security and compliance firm Hacken, Q2 saw crypto hacks rise by 58.3% from Q1’s $482.7 million and netted the highest losses …

Consensys found no compromised assets or data, no malicious code deployment and no user impact, but contractor access controls face scrutiny. The post MetaMask code was open to a North Korea-linked contractor for a month before Consensys halted releases appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Consensys, the blockchain firm behind the MetaMask crypto wallet, accidentally hired a software developer linked to North Korea who spent roughly a month contributing to core platform code before being identified and removed, according to internal company communications obtained by Drop Site News. How It Happened The developer operated under the alias Tyler Knapp and […] Read The Full Article How North Korea Got Inside One of Crypto’s Biggest Wallets On Coin Edition.

Consensys, the company behind the MetaMask crypto wallet, unknowingly hired a North Korea linked developer who used the alias "Tyler Knapp."

In Brief A North Korean developer worked inside MetaMask for about a month. He helped build the wallet before Consensys caught the risk. Consensys says no funds, data, or code were harmed. A North Korean developer spent about a month inside MetaMask, a leading crypto wallet used by more than 30 million people each month. Its maker, Consensys, did not know who he really was. He used a fake name, Tyler Knapp. He helped write core wallet code. Some of it moved money between crypto and cash....

Ethereum advocates are confident that the fundamentals are bullish, but investors in the asset remain extremely bearish.

Ethereum has one less regulatory cloud hanging over it after Consensys said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has closed its investigation into Ethereum 2.0 without recommending an enforcement action. TL;DR This article was writte

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