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Morning Edition · Friday, October 23, 2026Published at 1:49 AM EDT · New York
Bitget Traces $387.5 Million Theft to Zero-Day Flaws in Two Security Appliances as Off-Chain Breaches Drive Recent Losses
Duelbits, NEAR Intents and SingularityNET lost funds through hot-wallet keys, a deposit-system bug and cloud access, and Balancer holders voted to wind the protocol down 11 months after a $128 million exploit.
Bitget has traced the $387.5 million stolen from its hot and warm wallets on September 24 to zero-day flaws in two third-party security appliances. The attackers used the flaws to obtain high-level internal credentials. They then issued fra…
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A growing share of DeFi losses will come not from buggy contract code but from components behaving exactly as specified — oracle forwarders, validator signature sets, governance votes and other trusted off-contract inputs — so audits and bug bounties scoped to on-chain code keep missing the failure surface, and protocols will be repeatedly forced to extend review, scope and monitoring to their privileged operational infrastructure.
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