Category: Bitcoin News

North Korean state-backed hackers, the Lazarus Group, primarily employed spear phishing attacks to steal funds over the last year, with the group receiving the most mentions in post-hack analyses over the last 12 months, according to South Korean cybersecurity company AhnLab. Spear phishing is one of the most popular methods of attack by bad actors like Lazarus, using fake emails, “disguised as lecture invitations or interview requests,” AhnLab analysts said in the Nov. 26, 2025, Cyber ​​Threat Trends & 2026 Security Outlook report. Spear phishing attacks are a more sophisticated…

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino and market analysts pushed back against S&P Global’s downgraded rating of USDt’s (USDT) ability to maintain its US dollar peg, saying that the ratings agency did not account for all of Tether’s assets and revenues. The Tether Group’s total assets at the end of Q3 2025 totaled about $215 billion, while its total stablecoin liabilities were about $184.5 billion, according to Ardoino, who referenced Tether’s Q3 attestation report. He added: “Tether had, at the end of Q3 2025, about $7 billion in excess equity, on top…

Ether’s price may rise nearly 7% in the near term, as subdued stablecoin yields suggest the crypto market has yet to reach overheated conditions, according to crypto sentiment platform Santiment. “Currently, yields are low, around 4%. This indicates the market has not reached a major top and could still push higher,” Santiment said in a report on Saturday, forecasting that Ether (ETH) could revisit its $3,200 resistance level soon. This represents an approximate 6.7% increase from its price of $2,991 at the time of publication according to CoinMarketCap.  Ether is…

The team behind the Hyperliquid decentralized exchange (DEX) disclosed a 1.75 million HYPE token unlock for its developers and core contributors on Saturday, valued at over $60.4 million at the time of this writing. Saturday’s token unlock was previously announced and is part of HYPE’s vesting schedule, according to pseudonymous Hyperliquid developer iliensinc, who celebrated the first anniversary of Hyperliquid’s historic airdrop and token generation event. He said: “For perspective, about 270 million tokens were fully unlocked on Nov 29, 2024, in the largest airdrop in history, measured in today’s…

Crypto veteran Arthur Hayes has issued a warning over Monad, saying the recently launched layer-1 blockchain could plunge as much as 99% and end up as another failed experiment driven by venture capital hype rather than real adoption. Speaking on Altcoin Daily, the former BitMEX chief described the project as “another high FDV, low-float VC coin,” arguing that its token structure alone puts retail traders at risk. FDV stands for Fully Diluted Value, which is the market value of a crypto project if all its tokens were already in circulation.…

Ethereum educator Anthony Sassano said the goal to significantly increase Ethereum’s gas limit to 180 million next year is a baseline rather than a best-case scenario. “I think that’s the floor, that’s the minimum, I think we can go higher than that,” Sassano said during an interview on the Bankless podcast on Friday, just a day after Ethereum’s gas limit, which is the maximum amount of work the network allows in each block, was raised from 45 million to 60 million. “The general consensus that has been set by the…