Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-08-01 13:00 PDT
- Coldcard Hardware Wallet Flaw Linked to $70 Million Bitcoin Theft in 41 Minutes
The Hacker News • 2026-08-01 10:17 • thehackernews.com
An attacker drained 1,196 Bitcoin addresses in 41 minutes on July 30, taking 1,082.65 BTC worth about $70.2 million at the time. Galaxy Research mapped the sweep and tied it to a firmware flaw in Coldcard, the Bitcoin-only hardware wallet made by Canadian firm Coinkite.A March 2021 firmware integration error routed seed generation to a deterministic software pseudorandom number generator (PRNG
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/coldcard-hardware-wallet-flaw-linked-to.html - Rails patches critical Active Storage flaw with RCE potential
BleepingComputer • 2026-08-01 07:20 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
A critical vulnerability in the Active Storage framework can allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from a Rails application, and potentially escalate to remote code execution (RCE). […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rails-patches-critical-active-storage-flaw-with-rce-potential/
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
