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Binance is dealing with the fallout from what may be the largest crypto theft in history. The world's biggest exchange has traced a six-point-three billion dollar breach to a compromised laptop belonging to a DevOps engineer. CEO Richard Teng confirmed the attack involved multiple points of breach and was far from a simple operation. About three billion dollars has so far been frozen.
Closer to the software supply chain, Polymarket traders lost more than two million dollars after malicious code was quietly embedded in a website monitoring tool. The attack was designed to hijack active user sessions and drain funds without any direct login by the attacker. It's a reminder that the tools watching your platform can themselves become the threat.
And on the vulnerability front, a maximum-severity flaw in GitLab, tracked as CVE two thousand twenty six dash ninety seven thousand two hundred twenty nine, is now being actively exploited against Alpine Linux systems. The bug requires no authentication, meaning attackers can execute arbitrary code on exposed servers with no credentials at all. Unpatched instances should be considered a live target right now.
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