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A Reddit user acquired two old cryptocurrency mining rigs left in a basement, containing a total of 12 Zotac RTX 3070 graphics cards along with an MSI motherboard, a 1000W power supply, RAM and SSDs. Despite years of storage, the hardware showed only minor wear, including some silicone bleeding from aging thermal pads, but appeared largely salvageable.
Trezor disclosed that hackers who compromised 138 accounts at email marketing provider Brevo used the access to send roughly 347,000 phishing emails to its customers. The messages, disguised as security alerts, directed recipients to a fake app designed to steal their wallet backup passwords. Trezor says its own products and account systems were not breached, but the stolen credentials could let attackers drain victims' crypto holdings.
A Morning Risk Report roundup describes efforts by Chinese AI firms to reproduce American AI models, alongside items on crypto scam victims battling the U.S. government to recover lost funds and ABC host Jimmy Kimmel criticizing the FCC. The compilation touches on cloning practices in AI, consumer financial recovery disputes, and regulatory friction in broadcasting.
Hunter Biden launched a memecoin called $LAPTOP on Wednesday, which briefly spiked to $190.81 per token before collapsing to $3.70 within an hour, wiping out its fully diluted valuation from $144 billion to $4.8 billion. Roughly 80 percent of buyers reportedly lost money, following the classic pattern of early holders cashing out on hype before the coin's value cratered.
Trezor disclosed that a breach at its third-party email provider Brevo let attackers send fake security alerts to its opt-in newsletter subscribers, reaching roughly 347,000 email addresses. The fraudulent messages warned of a fake microcontroller vulnerability and pushed recipients to a malicious app requesting wallet backup phrases; Trezor says 2,500 people clicked the link before it disabled the domain within 20 minutes.
Eli Regalado, a Denver-based marketer with a checkered business history including a felony record and a marketing agency accused of overpromising clients, is described as central to a crypto investment scheme in which he claimed divine instructions guided his decisions. Investors who trusted the religious framing reportedly lost their money, according to accounts from former colleagues and clients who described a pattern of charisma masking unreliable follow-through.
Hunter Biden is preparing to launch a cryptocurrency token called LAPTOP, following an extended run of podcast and media appearances that raised his public profile. The move mirrors the memecoin ventures previously pursued by Donald Trump and his family.
Liquid Network, a Bitcoin-based payments and settlement platform, disclosed on Sunday that roughly 4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its Federation wallet were withdrawn without authorization, totaling about $320 million. The network described the perpetrators as "purported white-hat hackers" and warned that user wallets on the platform would be affected by the breach.
The House of Representatives has trimmed its September calendar down to only four voting days, sharply reducing the window for lawmakers to act on pending legislation. Among the bills losing time is the CLARITY Act, considered the crypto industry's top remaining legislative priority in Congress.
The AMD BC-250 is a leftover PlayStation 5 APU that failed console binning standards and was instead sold on mining server boards built by ASRock. With mainstream GPU mining now unprofitable, these boards have flooded the secondhand market for roughly $70-$100, giving hobbyists a full single-board PC with 6 Zen 2 cores, 24 RDNA 2 compute units, and 16GB of shared GDDR6 memory.
Security firm Socket Inc. identified 19 malicious browser extensions for Chrome and Edge that operated for years before being caught. The most popular, a right-click/OCR utility, was installed by 80,000 combined users and secretly harvested cryptocurrency wallet data after receiving malicious updates roughly six months ago.
Security researcher Bruce Schneier reported receiving a flood of AI-generated, one-line 'thank you' replies to the confirmation emails his Crypto-Gram newsletter sends to verify subscriptions. The messages came from dozens of throwaway Gmail addresses that never actually completed the subscription process, and none of the senders responded when he replied back.