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🔐 Ringleader Pleads Guilty in $245M Crypto Theft Scheme

Malone Lam, a 22-year-old from Singapore, pleaded guilty to federal racketeering conspiracy charges for leading an international social engineering operation that stole approximately $245 million in cryptocurrency — one of the largest crypto thefts in US history.

Lam and his conspirators posed as tech support employees to trick victims into granting access to their crypto funds, including a Washington, DC resident who lost nearly a quarter-billion dollars in Bitcoin. The stolen funds were laundered and used to finance a lavish lifestyle. Lam, an eighth-grade dropout, faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison. The case is being heard by US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.

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🏦 Robinhood takes minority stakes in Crypto.com and OG.com

Robinhood is expanding its event-contract and prediction markets business through two new partnerships, taking minority stakes in both Crypto.com and OG.com.

OG.com, which is transitioning to a standalone entity at a reported $5 billion valuation, has been selected as Robinhood's infrastructure and clearing partner for prediction markets. Robinhood will also integrate OG.com prediction markets into its platform. The deals include minority equity positions in both companies.

Crypto.com's native token CRO surged following the announcement. The moves signal Robinhood's continued push into crypto-adjacent financial products after launching event contracts as a core part of its trading offering.

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⚖️ U.S. court orders forfeiture of $212K in DPRK worker wages

A U.S. federal court has ordered the forfeiture of approximately $212,700 in stablecoins linked to wages paid to North Korean IT workers, handing the Justice Department a partial win in a broader enforcement action.

The DOJ had sought to seize more than $7.74 million in digital assets tied to the scheme, in which North Korean nationals posed as remote IT workers to earn cryptocurrency wages later funneled back to the regime. The court approved forfeiture only on the $212,700 portion at this stage.

The case is part of a wider U.S. crackdown on North Korea's use of crypto to circumvent sanctions and fund state programs, with authorities increasingly targeting stablecoin flows as a key enforcement vector.

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🔷 Ethereum's 2027 Bogotá upgrade to include gasless transaction standard

Ethereum developers have moved EIP-8141, dubbed "Frame Transactions," from Considered for Inclusion to Scheduled status for the network's Bogotá upgrade, planned for 2027.

The proposal introduces native account abstraction directly into Ethereum's base layer, potentially removing the requirement for users to hold ETH to pay gas fees. By embedding this functionality at the protocol level, EIP-8141 aims to make sponsored and flexible transaction fee models a standard part of Ethereum's transaction system — without relying on separate smart contract workarounds like ERC-4337.

Bogotá is shaping up as a significant protocol milestone, with account abstraction now formally on the upgrade roadmap.

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🔐 Liquid Network Loses $320M in Bitcoin Security Breach

Blockstream's Liquid Network has been paused after roughly 4,000 BTC — worth approximately $320 million — was withdrawn from its Federation wallet on September 6, 2026, in what the network is investigating as a security incident.

The withdrawal was executed via the SideSwap PAK (Peg-out Authorisation Key), though Liquid confirmed the key itself was not compromised. The incident exposed a failure in the sidechain's peg-out process, leaving L-BTC backed by only 4.7% of the required Bitcoin. Blockstream has publicly told the party responsible that it is "safe to return the funds," while federation members investigate the underlying software flaw.

Exchanges moved to protect users as the sidechain was frozen. The breach has put Liquid's federated security model under scrutiny, though Bitcoin's base layer was unaffected.

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🔐 Sality Botnet Dismantled After Eight Years of Crypto Theft

The U.S. Department of Justice, working with CrowdStrike and the Shadowserver Foundation, has dismantled the Sality botnet — a Russia-based malware network that stole Bitcoin and Ethereum for eight years by silently replacing copied wallet addresses with the attacker's own.

The joint operation, executed on August 31, 2026, involved authorities from the U.S., Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. Investigators turned Sality's own peer-to-peer architecture against itself, manipulating peer lists and taking down payload URLs to cut more than 15,000 infected machines off from their operators. Dormant wallets linked to the operation held an estimated $1.5 million in stolen crypto.

Sality first emerged in 2003 as a file-infecting virus, though its crypto-theft campaign ran for approximately eight years before being disrupted.

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