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Arun | Senior Cybersecurity & Blockchain Strategist. Arun is a cybersecurity professional with over 20 years of experience leading security operations for global institutions. A frequent speaker at international Cybersecurity and Blockchain conferences, he has been a lead contributor at CryptoNewsBytes since 2017. ✍️ By combining two decades of security leadership with deep-dive reporting on AI, emerging threats, and crypto regulations (including the CLARITY and GENIUS Acts), Arun provides institutional-grade clarity for the evolving 2026 digital asset landscape. 🛡️🌐

CoinEx Is Shutting Down After Nine Years. Here Is What You Need to Do Before December 22

TL;DR ▶ CoinEx founder Haipo Yang announced on September 15, 2026 that CoinEx will cease operations in an orderly wind-down. Withdrawals open until December 22, 2026. ▶ Reason: prolonged crypto market downturn, collapsing trading volumes, and compliance costs that have…

Revolut Attackers Are Now Publishing Stolen Passports and Selfies Daily Until Revolut Pays

TL;DR ▶ The attackers who obtained Revolut customer data via a fake government request on September 12 have begun publicly posting stolen passports and selfies on X and Telegram, starting September 13. ▶ Their demand: “We are going to start…

Hoskinson: If You Share Ideas With AI, They Are Not Yours Anymore. Midnight Fixes This

TL;DR ▶ Hoskinson said in a September 2026 YouTube video: “If you share your ideas in AI with these frontier models in the cloud, they are not your ideas anymore.” ▶ The trigger: mathematician Jay Cummings alleged ChatGPT used his…

Revolut Handed Passports and Bitcoin Records to Fake Government Request. Here Is Everything We Know

TL;DR ▶ Revolut confirmed on September 12, 2026 that it disclosed passports, selfies, IBANs, and full Bitcoin transaction histories to an unauthorized third party who impersonated a government agency. ▶ The fake request used a legitimate government domain email that…

India Just Put $620 Billion of Corporate Bonds on a Blockchain and The RBI Is Settling Them

TL;DR ▶ India’s SEBI launched Demat 2.0 on September 10, 2026: a pilot that issues corporate bonds as native digital tokens on a permissioned distributed ledger and settles them against the RBI’s wholesale digital rupee. ▶ Three companies have already…

LAPTOP Memecoin: Hunter Biden Launched It. It Crashed 99%. Here Is the Full Story

TL;DR ▶ Hunter Biden launched $LAPTOP on Coinbase’s Base network on September 9, 2026. One billion tokens. Founders including Biden hold 30% locked for six months. ▶ The token hit $316 in the first two minutes of trading then crashed…

Fake IRS Letter Scam Is Targeting Crypto Holders. Here Is Exactly How It Works

WARNING If you received a physical letter claiming to be from the IRS about a “Digital Asset Compliance Portal” or “DACP”: do not scan the QR code, do not visit the website, do not call any number listed. The IRS…

Coldcard Hardware Wallet Hack: $116M in Bitcoin Stolen From 5,200 Addresses. Here Is Exactly What Happened.

URGENT: Are You Affected? If you generated a Coldcard wallet seed between March 2021 and July 2026, your seed may be compromised regardless of your current firmware version. Update firmware and migrate funds to a new seed immediately. A firmware…

Midnight Told the US Treasury Its Stablecoin Rule Would Accidentally Ban Privacy-Preserving Chains

TL;DR ▶ The Midnight Foundation filed a formal comment (FINCEN-2026-0100-0022) with FinCEN and OFAC on July 29, 2026 on the GENIUS Act stablecoin proposed rule. ▶ The problem: the rule never bans privacy chains but its compliance tests quietly assume…

BitConnect: The $2.4 Billion Crypto Fraud That Changed Everything

TL;DR ▶ BitConnect raised over $2.4 billion from investors worldwide between 2016 and 2018 promising up to 1% daily returns via a proprietary trading bot. ▶ The trading bot never existed. Returns were paid using new investor deposits. Classic Ponzi…