Electrum 4.8.3 Fixes Exploited Bitcoin Fee-Bumping Bug
Electrum 4.8.3 has shipped a fix for an exploited bug tied to Bitcoin fee bumping, a transaction workflow that lets users raise a pending transaction's fee to improve its confirmation prospec
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Keystone Wallet Data Breach: What Customers Need to Check
Keystone confirmed exposure of customer contact and order information. The company says private keys and recovery phrases were unaffected. Order-specific phishing messages are the main immedi
Initia Halts L1 and Rollups After a Day-0 Mint Exploit Drains $2.7 Million
Initia stopped producing blocks at 15:41:30 UTC on October 23, roughly forty-two minutes after an attacker minted 2,000,000 AUSD out of nothing and fourteen minutes after pseudonymous researc
Electrum Wallet Patches Flaw That Let Hackers Disguise Bitcoin Theft as a Fee Bump
Attackers reportedly exploited a fee-increase feature to drain funds from Electrum users before a fix was issued. Electrum Wallet developers have shipped a patch addressing a security flaw th
Account Buys $360K in Polymarket Contracts on Fed Hold
An account on Polymarket has taken a $360,000 position on the Federal Reserve holding interest rates unchanged in October, a trade size large enough to register as a notable signal in the pre
Electrum servers trick wallet users into signing fake zero-fee payments
Malicious Electrum servers replaced users’ just-broadcast bitcoin payments with fake zero-fee transactions paying lookalike addresses. Servers apparently bet victims would raise the fee and s
Electrum wallet fixes security flaw after hackers steal Bitcoin
Electrum has released version 4.8.3 to fix a high-severity Bitcoin wallet vulnerability that malicious servers have exploited to redirect user payments, with developers confirming at least on
Electrum 4.8.3 Fixes Exploited Fee-Bumping Bug
Electrum has shipped version 4.8.3 to patch an exploited security bug tied directly to fee bumping, a routine Bitcoin transaction feature that millions of wallet users rely on. If you use Ele
Customer Shipping Data Exposed After Website Breach at Keystone Hardware Wallet
The crypto device maker says attackers accessed home addresses tied to past orders, raising fears of physical targeting. Keystone has confirmed that its website suffered a security breach exp
Bitcoin Blockchain Puzzled by Repeated Poetic Messages Over Two Weeks
You can also read this news on BH NEWS: Bitcoin Blockchain Puzzled by Repeated Poetic Messages Over Two Weeks In a curious development on the Bitcoin blockchain, Galaxy Research has uncovered
Keystone wallet hack exposes buyers’ home addresses, sparking security fears
Hardware wallet maker Keystone has confirmed a security breach that exposed customers’ names, home addresses and purchase details, raising concerns about phishing scams and physical threats a
Electrum 4.8.3: cómo un servidor malicioso robó bitcoins imitando los últimos cuatro caracteres de una dirección
Cuatro caracteres bastaron para que una víctima firmara un pago hacia una dirección que no era la suya. Electrum, el monedero de Bitcoin creado en 2011, publicó el 24 de octubre de 2026 la ve