# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-07T14:25:07.977Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-08-07/security-roundup-abandoned-strongblock-governance-drained-no
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [DeFiHackLabs](https://github.com/SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs/commit/9c1f8ec16e8e8e4216be8e4fad27f5d2ba733a1b), [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news)

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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