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According to Scam Sniffer (@realScamSniffer), Duelbits' hot wallets on Ethereum, BSC, and Tron are suspected of having leaked private keys, with approximately $4.2 million in assets flowing to newly created addresses. The transferred assets include 836 ETH, 1.62 million USDT, 97,000 USDC, 209 BNB, and 192,000 TRX, with most of them already converted to ETH. The hacker's EVM address is 0xa77e24fe29d16e051e487ef4ea7b056cb05aef76.
Nano Labs, a US-listed BNB treasury company, issued a risk warning stating that its founder Jack Kong’s personal X account has been compromised. Recent posts on the account regarding tokens and AI trading models were not authorized by him or the company. The company emphasized that it has not issued or endorsed any related token projects, and advised users not to click suspicious links, transfer assets to related contracts, or trust direct messages, urging them to remain vigilant against scams.
According to a Binance announcement, due to a security incident involving Zilliqa, the project team has announced the migration of ZIL from the Zilliqa mainnet to the ZILEVM network. Binance will discontinue support for the Zilliqa mainnet and will support ZIL deposits and withdrawals via the ZILEVM network. ZIL will be migrated from the Zilliqa mainnet to the ZILEVM network at a 1:1 ratio. Binance paused ZIL deposits and withdrawals on the Zilliqa mainnet at 9:00 on August 5, and will reopen deposits and withdrawals on the ZILEVM network upon completion of the migration without further notice. During the migration period, spot trading, leverage trading, contract trading, and Binance wealth management services remain unaffected.
Odaily reports: Owen Simonin, founder and CEO of French crypto platform Meria, stated that following several recent data breach incidents in France, there has been an increase in scam calls impersonating customer service representatives from legitimate platforms such as Binance and Meria.Scammers falsely claim that users' accounts or funds are at risk, inducing them to urgently transfer their crypto assets to designated addresses. Simonin emphasized that platforms will not ask users to initiate transactions or provide personal information when users have not proactively contacted them.In August, the French General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) disclosed that a data breach incident allowed hackers to obtain the data of 678,000 taxpayers. (Bitcoin.com News)
Binance Wallet announced that following a security incident involving the Nesa (NES) token contract, Binance Alpha 2.0 will support NES contract swaps on BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) and provide compensation arrangements for eligible users: first, balances held by users as of 14:51 UTC on August 24, 2026, and maintained through to 04:00 UTC on September 5, 2026, will be swapped to the new contract at a 1:1 ratio; subsequent purchases will not be eligible for the swap and will be refunded separately. Second, users with net purchases of NES between 14:51 UTC on August 24, 2026, and 04:00 UTC on September 5, 2026, will receive an email detailing the specific refund plan within seven working days. Trading of NES on Binance Alpha 2.0 is expected to resume on September 10, 2026, at 08:00 UTC.
According to Decrypt, the UK National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) stated in its annual report that criminals are "innovatively" leveraging crypto asset products to evade detection and transfer illicit funds at scale, while also highlighting AI alongside cryptocurrencies as an emerging threat method. Crypto assets have been ranked third among the nine priority economic crime areas jointly designated by NECC, the FCA, and the Treasury. NECC stated it will build more proactive, intelligence-driven crypto capabilities to actively identify targets for enforcement action. Previously, the NCA, in collaboration with the US Secret Service, Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, and Tether, conducted "Operation Atlantic," which identified 20,000 phishing attack victims and resulted in the freezing of $12 million in assets this March.
The Sandbox stated that it will provide full compensation to affected users for the SAND vulnerability incident on Base and BNB Smart Chain that occurred on August 22. Any wallet that legitimately held cross-chain SAND at the time of the snapshot prior to the incident will receive SAND compensation on the Ethereum network at a 1:1 ratio.
According to Odaily, as monitored by SlowMist, per the SlowMist TI security alert, a Router contract has been exploited due to security flaws in its Swap entry point and uniswapV3SwapCallback, resulting in losses of approximately 62.28 BNB. The Router fails to verify whether the caller is a legitimate V3 Pool, nor does it bind the payer in the callback to the original transaction context. The attacker forged a V3 Pool/adapter and injected a victim's address as the payer, exploiting users' existing ERC-20 approvals granted to the Router to execute transferFrom() and transfer assets. Users who have previously granted sufficient token approvals to this Router may see their approved assets transferred out, even without further interaction on their part.
: Harmony has released an update on the exchange reconciliation progress following the August 11 incident. It has verified on-chain deposits/withdrawals and cross-platform fund flows with Binance, Gate, KuCoin, MEXC, OKX, and Binance.US, prioritizing the coordination of restoring ONE deposits, withdrawals, and trading, with specific timelines to be announced separately by each exchange.Harmony stated that after matching 295 cross-exchange transfers totaling approximately 3.493 billion ONE and adjusting for circular transfers and returned funds, the preliminary shortage has been reduced from approximately 10.234 billion ONE to 6.581 billion ONE, a decrease of about 3.653 billion ONE. This change reflects an adjustment in reconciliation methodology and does not equate to newly recovered funds.Among these, Binance's data remains a preliminary upper-bound estimate, while some data from Gate and OKX are still pending final verification. Exchange teams have already frozen significant ONE balances and hacker proceeds. These efforts will be coordinated with the ONE migration and validator transition proposal, and validators may cease operations starting 22:00 Beijing time on September 10.
Odaily News: Binance stated that in the first half of 2026, the Binance Wallet Security Center helped users avoid approximately $540 million in potential losses, filtering about 206 million spam transfers, identifying 4.93 million high-risk transactions, and approximately 996,000 malicious authorizations during the period. Binance noted that AI is being used by attackers to mass-generate malicious code, phishing websites, and fake identities, shifting attacks from broad-based approaches to more targeted fraud.
According to CriptoNoticias, Argentina's Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) conducted a specialized training course titled "Virtual Assets: Financial Analysis, Tracking, Detection and Confiscation" via Zoom on August 19 and September 2, 2026, for internal staff, officials, and judges. Led by anti-money laundering specialist Carmen Chena, the curriculum covered digital wallet asset analysis, domestic and international legal frameworks, the cryptocurrency ecosystem, and practical case studies on preservation measures. Previously, Argentina's judiciary had already accumulated extensive experience in cryptocurrency-related cases, including the freezing of 3 million USDT in December 2024 and the 2022 ruling ordering Binance to return stolen BTC.
The UK National Crime Agency announced the freezing of assets belonging to NFT platform Sorare, seizing approximately £1 million in funds. The case involves cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering using proceeds from the Binance hack.
Binance announced that due to a hack on BounceBit and the project team's decision to permanently shut down the chain, Binance will stop supporting the BounceBit (BB) mainnet. Binance has suspended deposits and withdrawals of BB on the BounceBit mainnet as of 10:00 (UTC+8) on August 20, 2026, and will reopen deposits and withdrawals via the BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) network starting at 15:00 on September 1, 2026. BB will be migrated from the original mainnet to the BNB Smart Chain at a 1:1 ratio. During the migration, spot, margin, futures, and Earn services will remain unaffected.
Binance founder CZ stated on social media that while marketing can be more aggressive, it should not involve exploitation or escalate into personal attacks that could even undermine others' future career prospects. He noted that directly addressing the issue through legal channels would be more appropriate than disclosing unnecessary details, and urged all parties to resolve the matter amicably and with mutual respect. CZ later added that the industry should hold itself to higher standards. In response, Justin Sun replied expressing his gratitude and agreement, stating, “With mutual respect and a proper resolution, the rest will be left to the courts. I have nothing further to say.”
blockchain gaming platform The Sandbox has announced it will compensate users who held bridged SAND on Base or BNB Smart Chain prior to the August 21 bridge vulnerability exploit at a 1:1 ratio. The compensation will be paid using Ethereum-based SAND from the project treasury, with no new tokens being minted.The attack resulted in approximately 14.744 million SAND being stolen from the Ethereum treasury, valued at around $700,000. The claims process is expected to open within two weeks and will last for two weeks; two centralized exchanges holding over 72% of eligible balances will directly distribute compensation to affected customers.The Sandbox stated that the attacker exploited a configuration vulnerability in SAND contracts on Base and BNB Chain, becoming the sole validator of bridge messages and minting unbacked tokens. Additionally, over 339 trillion unbacked SAND tokens were minted across the two networks, but these have been quarantined and cannot be bridged or exchanged. SAND on Ethereum and Polygon was unaffected, and the compromised bridge contracts will be permanently decommissioned. (Cointelegraph)
GoPlus Security released a security alert stating that on August 25, realio[.]fund, a project under Realio Network, was attacked. The attacker took control of the platform's signing system and moved treasury and custody wallet assets across Ethereum, BNB Chain, Algorand, Stellar, and the Realio native chain. A total of approximately 127.9 million RIO tokens worth around $6.2 million were affected, with the attacker having cashed out approximately $317,000 so far.
Odaily News, The Sandbox has released a post-mortem report on the August 22 vulnerability incident. The report shows that attackers exploited vulnerabilities in contracts related to cross-chain configurations on Base and BNB Smart Chain (BSC), stealing 14,742,341.84 SAND from the Ethereum treasury, accounting for approximately 0.5% of the maximum supply, with an estimated economic impact of approximately $1.4968 million, of which about $987,000 was actually retained by the attackers. The Ethereum mainnet and Polygon network were not affected. Until further notice, please do not purchase or send SAND on Base or BNB Smart Chain. Contracts deployed on Base and BNB Smart Chain have been permanently deactivated and will not be reopened. The Sandbox stated that the team has reported the attacker's wallet address to blockchain analysis firms TRM Labs and Chainalysis, and has communicated directly with relevant exchanges. The Sandbox also announced a compensation plan, which will compensate wallets that legitimately held cross-chain SAND on Base or BSC prior to the incident at a 1:1 ratio in Ethereum SAND. Compensation funds will come from The Sandbox treasury, with no new tokens issued. The claim process will open within the next two weeks and remain open for two weeks.
Odaily News: Metaverse gaming platform The Sandbox has confirmed a vulnerability in its cross-chain bridge, allowing attackers to mint unbacked SAND on Base and BNB Smart Chain. Blockchain security firm PeckShield detected on August 21 that two addresses had collectively minted approximately 14.9 billion SAND. The Sandbox subsequently shut down bridging functionality on both networks.The Sandbox stated that the affected assets are bridged assets on Base and BNB Smart Chain, while SAND on Ethereum and Polygon, user wallet assets, and the Ethereum-locked assets backing the token remain unaffected. The proportion of genuinely collateralized assets involved in this incident is less than 0.01% of the total SAND supply.The Sandbox is developing a compensation plan for affected liquidity providers and advises users not to trade SAND on Base or BNB Smart Chain until bridging is restored. Coinbase plans to delist 10 perpetual futures contracts, including SAND, on August 26, with open positions to be automatically settled at that time. (Bitcoin.com News)
The Sandbox has officially confirmed and fully secured the recent SAND cross-chain bridge vulnerability affecting the Base and BNB Smart Chain (BSC) networks. Attackers exploited the flaw to mint uncollateralized SAND tokens across both networks, but the impact remains limited, accounting for less than 0.01% of the total SAND supply. SAND on Ethereum and Polygon, along with user wallets, remain unaffected. The Sandbox has since disabled cross-chain functionality on both networks. SAND on Base and BSC has been isolated and is temporarily non-transferable and non-redeemable. The official team advises users to avoid buying, selling, or trading SAND on the aforementioned networks.
BounceBit Chain 已于 8 月 20 日 02:36:37（UTC）在区块高度 20,702,857 停止出块。团队决定永久停止 BounceBit Chain，不再进行网络升级，并将在 BNB Chain 上以 BEP-20 代币形式重新发行 BB。新 BB 余额将依据 8 月 19 日 21:02:35（UTC）区块高度 20,697,260 的快照确定，攻击期间被转移的 286,543,148 枚 BB 不会计入重新发行代币。