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At its HOOD Summit in Houston, Robinhood announced plans to let customers trade certain U.S. equities around the clock, including weekends, starting next year, expanding its existing 24/5 trading feature. The company also introduced customizable AI-powered trading agents and crypto perpetual contracts, aiming to give retail traders tools it says were once reserved for hedge funds and banks.
Bitget disclosed that attackers who stole $387.5 million from its hot and warm wallets last week gained access by exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in two third-party security appliances. Investigations by SlowMist and Mandiant found the attackers planted a web shell and malware, moved laterally to Bitget's production wallet job server, and used a custom withdrawal tool to execute transfers over roughly three hours starting September 24-25. Bitget had suspended withdrawals after detecting the unauthorized transfers.
Trung Nguyen Van, 37, was arrested at LAX on September 24 while attempting to board a flight to Taiwan, days after entering the US through the San Ysidro border crossing. Prosecutors say a victim wired about $16 million in cryptocurrency to Van's wallet between June and August 2024, believing they were investing in a platform called 'Triangle', and that Van moved the funds to an unhosted wallet off the centralized blockchain.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation prohibiting California's elected officials from issuing memecoins, a cryptocurrency category built around jokes, trends or celebrity personas. The law also bars any company from creating a memecoin using an official's likeness or image, regardless of the official's involvement. Newsom's office cited reports that roughly one million investors lost about $3.8 billion buying the memecoin President Trump launched in 2025 as reasoning for the measure.
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said a September 24 breach that drained $387.5 million from the exchange showed signs of North Korean state-sponsored hackers, pointing to VPN infrastructure previously linked to such groups. Attackers exploited a backend wallet system, forging transfer approvals to authorize fraudulent withdrawals, while cold wallets and private keys stayed secure. Bitget froze withdrawals temporarily and said its $464 million User Protection Fund would cover the entire loss.
Bitget has reopened Bitcoin withdrawals after suspending them following a breach it says North Korean hackers carried out last week, stealing $387.5 million across multiple chains and tokens. The exchange plans to phase back withdrawals for ETH, USDT and other assets by early October, saying it has fixed the exploited vulnerability and that user balances remain unaffected thanks to its Protection Fund.
The Clarity Act, a bill offering light-touch federal regulation for cryptocurrency assets, failed to advance after scrutiny of profits President Trump and his family made from crypto ventures. Lawmakers cited concerns over these financial ties as a factor undermining support for the legislation.
Crypto Cellar Research reports that GPT-Astra cracked the previously unbroken 82-letter German Army Enigma transmission known as MVUEH, sent to the SS-Totenkopf Division on July 10, 1941. The message, publicly available since 2005 but never decoded, was solved autonomously by Astra, which wrote its own Python and C++ Enigma simulation and Bombe tools and correctly guessed a probable plaintext clue referencing the town Rosenow.
Crypto exchange Bitget disclosed a $388 million security breach and said it is 'very likely' the work of North Korean hackers. The company stated that user private keys were not compromised and that a bitcoin-backed protection fund will cover the losses, while withdrawals remain frozen pending an investigation.
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget said hackers stole more than $351 million from its hot wallets in a Thursday cyberattack, making it the largest crypto theft of the year. The exchange has suspended withdrawals and said its $464 million user protection fund should cover losses, though CEO Gracy Chen did not give a timeline for restoring withdrawals.
Bitcoin rose 37% over 39 days to reach an eight-month high near $86,000 on Monday, according to Yahoo Finance. The rally followed Congress's failure to pass a crypto 'Clarity Act' and the SEC's announcement of a five-year 'innovation exemption' allowing tokenized U.S. stocks to trade via automated market makers on public blockchains, per CoinDesk.
Nature's Futures section has published a short story titled 'The Courier,' depicting a near-future lawyer navigating AI-driven policing, cryptocurrency payments, and legal privilege while extracting a client from custody. The narrative follows the protagonist and a driver called Big Citrus as they leave an LAPD precinct in an old, spyware-free car, discussing legal boundaries during the ride.