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Zero Trust Lessons from the Coinbase May 2025 Breach: Why Data Security Can’t Wait

Zero Trust Lessons from the Coinbase May 2025 Breach: Why Data Security Can’t Wait

Source: The Shift to Zero Trust - Certora On May 15, 2025, Coinbase revealed a security incident where attackers exploited weak points in their customer support network. Malicious actors persuaded overseas contractors to sell sensitive customer data, impacting less than 1% of users but exposing a broad range of personal

Securing Mobile Crypto Wallets: How to Safely Use WebViews Without Losing User Trust

Securing Mobile Crypto Wallets: How to Safely Use WebViews Without Losing User Trust

Source: Zellic - Securing Wallet WebViews Mobile crypto wallets often embed dApp browsing via WebViews-mini browsers within the app itself-to integrate decentralized apps. While desktop wallets can use browser extensions like MetaMask, mobile platforms lack widespread extension support. Instead, wallets rely on WebViews, typically via React Native’s popular react-native-webview

TRON Smart Contract Security: Protecting Your Protocol Through Every Lifecycle Stage

TRON Smart Contract Security: Protecting Your Protocol Through Every Lifecycle Stage

Source: TRON Smart Contract Security Lifecycle | cantina.xyz TRON stands out as a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain powering digital assets, stablecoins, and various content-focused protocols. It offers high throughput, fast finality, and minimal transaction fees, but these strengths bring unique security challenges that differ from Ethereum-based assumptions. Understanding TRON’s

Uniswap V4 Hooks: Unlock Power, Avoid Dangerous Security Risks

Uniswap V4 Hooks: Unlock Power, Avoid Dangerous Security Risks

Source: Uniswap V4 Security Considerations | QuillAudits Uniswap V4 launched recently on Ethereum Mainnet, introducing a groundbreaking feature: customizable hooks. These act like plugins for liquidity pools, enabling developers to add custom logic around critical pool events-such as swaps, liquidity updates, or donations. While this flexibility fuels new DeFi innovations, it

Qubic’s $300M AI Project Sparks Fake 51% Attack Drama on Monero—Hype Over Heist?

Qubic’s $300M AI Project Sparks Fake 51% Attack Drama on Monero—Hype Over Heist?

Source: Hashrate Heist or Hype? A $300 million AI startup, Qubic, recently stirred the Web3 community by claiming it pulled off a landmark 51% attack on Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency valued around $6 billion. Their story: lure miners with massively increased rewards, quietly seize the network’s computational power, then

Effective Crisis Management for CEXs: How to Prepare and Respond to Crypto Cyberattacks

Effective Crisis Management for CEXs: How to Prepare and Respond to Crypto Cyberattacks

Source: Crisis Management for CEX During a Cybersecurity Threat - CoinTelegraph While cybersecurity defenses in crypto are advancing, centralized cryptocurrency exchanges (CEXs) still face persistent risks from cyberattacks. Even with stronger security measures, a single breach can cause massive financial losses, drive users away, and severely damage an exchange’s

Cyclic Groups & Discrete Log Problem Explained: The Math Behind Cryptography Security

Cyclic Groups & Discrete Log Problem Explained: The Math Behind Cryptography Security

Source: ZK Math 101: Cyclic Groups, the Generator Point, and the Discrete Logarithm Problem | Cyfrin This article breaks down the role of cyclic groups in cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), highlighting why the difficulty of the discrete logarithm problem (DLP) makes these groups a cornerstone in secure protocols. What Are