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Polygon is an Ethereum-compatible proof-of-stake blockchain supporting smart contracts, dapps, and token transfers with low fees.
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One attacker pushed more than twenty malicious GitHub repos from a hijacked account in February, several posing as Polymarket copy-trading bots. Garnet's maintainer published a fifteen-minute checklist for tracing what a bot does with the one signing key it needs.
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Approvals Magic Eden users granted in 2024 let an attacker take 305 NFTs through Limit Break's Payment Processor V2 this September. Closing the marketplace left those permissions working, so NFT holders should revoke on a schedule.
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HIFI raised a $37 million Series A led by Left Lane Capital for rails that settle the dollar side of tokenized trades around the clock. The settlement work is already running on those rails, but HIFI's own volume figures look more like payouts than settlement.
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CTM360 tracked more than 17,000 compromised URLs serving a fake Cloudflare check whose next hostname arrives from an on-chain lookup. Microsoft put 47 percent of its 2025 initial-access cases down to the technique.
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Blackpoint says a fake Spotify MSI, launched through msiexec.exe, ends with a Node.js agent that reads its live C2 address off a Polygon contract. The same implant has also shipped as Zoom and Teams.
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Sekoia's comparison found the two ClickFix services' injected scripts near identical, while the Exvicy subscription climbed from $1,200 to $2,000 a month and its panel count reached about 80 hosts by late August.
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Cloudflare is now charging for web resources in stablecoins. The product director running that effort says machine payments will eventually need throughput beyond what any existing blockchain can supply.
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TRM Labs put 198.9 million x402 settlements through a filter for self-payments and thin sellers. $25.62 million survived. Agents got 0.6% to 7.5% of that, on a model TRM says may understate them.
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Elastic documented four programs that stay in the user profile after the stealer wipes itself. The credential rotation that closes the ticket does not restore the update services or clear the Defender exclusions.
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Warren Jenson, who has been finance chief at Amazon, Delta Air Lines and Electronic Arts, takes over capital strategy at a company that has published no audited numbers and paid $112m for its way back into the United States.
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Zscaler's ThreatLabz found SloppyRAT in June 2026 at the end of a ClickFix chain whose live hosts are all ordinary domains, with a Polygon JSON-RPC lookup held in reserve for when those domains stop answering.
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A cross-chain firm that never earned enough to fund itself is closing on September 30, and the 303m tokens it will destroy return no cash to holders or to the $4.1mn of 2021 venture money behind it.
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The Threat Hunter Team says the technique has hit government departments, technology firms and hotels since February 2026. In one case, the operators moved to node.exe only after their Cobalt Strike beacons kept getting blocked.
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Malwarebytes has now documented three different GTA 6 scam payloads since June, so awareness copy written around one lure is describing a page the operators have already rebuilt. The drainer arrives before any click.
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Morphisec says a repo posing as a free Anthropic model delivers a Windows infostealer that keeps a spare command server address in a Polygon smart contract, so taking the primary host down does not end operator control.
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Field Effect logged three ClickFix chains between mid-June and July 2026, two of them landing on the same hidden file pair in ProgramData, and in one case the operator phoned the victim to open the lure.
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EURR is about 1,570 times smaller than Circle's EURC and locked inside one app, which is what a distribution test looks like when the goal is replacing USDT for 16 million crypto-active customers rather than earning reserve income.
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SlowMist's August 28 report describes a GitHub page promising offline Qwen 3.8 27B weights and handing over a 487KB stealer instead. The byte count on a download is the cheapest integrity control a team still owns.
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An autonomous agent that sells over x402 passed all 14 conformance checks and still earned nothing, so it summed the directory's public settlement data for every listing. One seller holds 79% of the total.
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MetaMask and Trust Wallet both ship poisoning detection, and both keep it on EVM chains, which leaves Tron users doing the character-by-character checking themselves. The two largest victims paid $2.5M each.
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