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Morning Edition · Friday, August 7, 2026Published at 10:25 AM EDT · New York
Security Roundup: Abandoned StrongBlock Governance Drained, North Korean Hackers Hijack Telegram Accounts to Scan Crypto Wallets
StrongBlock lost roughly $72,000 in tokens after an attacker exploited a deprecated governance contract, while the North Korea-linked group BlueNoroff has compromised more than 100 crypto professionals across 20-plus countries through fake Zoom and Teams meetings.
Security researchers at DeFiHackLabs published a proof-of-concept reproducing a governance takeover of StrongBlock, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol whose on-chain governance system had been effectively abandoned by its team and comm…
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