The FBI has attributed a $6.3 billion cryptocurrency theft from Binance to the North Korean-linked group known as TraderTraitor, which it says was also behind last year’s Bybit hack. Binance says it has replenished about 90% of the stolen assets and will fully reimburse customers, while investigators seek to disrupt laundering.
Binance says it has frozen or secured about $3 billion of roughly $6.3 billion in digital assets affected by a major cyberattack, while blockchain intelligence firms have attributed the operation with high confidence to a North Korean-linked hacking unit. The exchange says customer losses will be covered, but the wider breach and the status of remaining funds remain under investigation.
Polymarket temporarily suspended trading on its international platform for about an hour after identifying a security incident involving a compromised third-party provider. The prediction-market company said it had fixed the issue, referred it to a UK law-enforcement agency and would fully reimburse affected traders. The extent of any impact remained unclear in reports published after trading resumed.
Alphabet lost roughly $500bn in market value after reporting a 25% fall in quarterly profit, slower advertising growth and a cash-flow deficit linked largely to its artificial-intelligence investment programme. Revenue and cloud sales grew strongly, but investors reacted poorly to mounting infrastructure costs and concerns that AI summaries are reducing traditional search advertising.
Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, has filed paperwork for an initial public offering that could become one of the largest in history. The company has not yet disclosed the number or price of shares, while reports suggest a possible offering of up to $100 billion and a valuation as high as $2 trillion.
A newly disclosed flaw in PHP, software used by about 70% of the world’s websites, has prompted millions of exploitation attempts and precautionary shutdowns. UK officials said 32 government services were taken offline while updates were applied, but the National Cyber Security Centre reported no confirmed successful attacks linked to the vulnerability.
Authorities in several countries temporarily shut government websites after two severe vulnerabilities were disclosed in PHP, a programming language used by almost 70% of websites. The US National Security Agency advised organisations to take systems offline if they could not patch them immediately. Researchers said the flaws could allow remote attackers to execute commands without a password.
A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found that Facebook misled users about data privacy and related content policies in a case linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Meta disputes the ruling and says it will appeal. The judgment follows separate multistate settlements and other penalties involving the company.
A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found that Facebook intentionally misled users about the handling of their personal data. The company disputes the ruling and plans to appeal, while state officials say the judgment holds a major technology company accountable for more than 40 million alleged violations.
Governments, agencies and companies around the world have taken websites offline after two critical vulnerabilities were discovered in PHP, the programming language used beneath a large portion of the web. Security authorities say the flaws could give attackers access to servers without passwords, while researchers say advanced AI helped identify them and accelerate the response.
Tesla and SpaceX have created special committees to explore a possible merger, according to Elon Musk, who said the companies had not agreed terms and that no deal was guaranteed. A combination would link electric vehicles, energy and robotics with rockets, satellite internet and computing, but would require shareholder approval and overcome Musk’s declared conflict of interest.