Independent weekly threat intelligence on crypto security. Exploits, vulnerabilities, tools, and the shifting attack surface. By @iphelix

Joined December 2020
BlockThreat Enterprise Tier gives security teams organization-specific threat intelligence reports, monthly briefings, priority access, and optional tailored feeds based on the exploits, threat actors, techniques, and trends I track every day across Web3.
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BlockThreat - September, 2026 $780M stolen across 76 incidents. Worst month of 2026. DPRK crossed $1B for the year with another exchange super hack. Two hacks did 91% of the damage. They are not what concerns me most. 🧵
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The long tail is where it gets interesting: - Wallets failing at the one job that matters - Obscure chains picked apart at the consensus layer - A $320M lesson in why a fix sitting in main isn’t a fix
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So who’s next for a $100M+ hack? The way in won’t surprise you. What happens after it will, and it changes how fast you need to respond. Full breakdown, Top 10 attack vectors, and what to fix now 👇 blockthreat.com/blockthreat-…
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BlockThreat - Week 40, 2026 This week in blockchain security: 8 exploits, a $3.8M hack that came back in full within a day, a Wasm sandbox escape, and a new open-weights model built for security research.
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AI research: 🤖 Anthropic on the spread of advanced cyber capabilities 🛠 @trailofbits on finding bugs with /goal 🧠 @cantinasecurity Apex Flash, an open-weights security model 📚 A dataset of 23,625 audit findings 🎓 @asen_sec course on building your first bug-hunting agent
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Plus: an ex-NCA officer ordered to repay $2.4M for bitcoin he stole when it was worth $77K, 5 new whitepapers, and Chase for Sui Move. Full edition 👇 blockthreat.com/blockthreat-…
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BlockThreat - Week 38, 2026 This week in blockchain security a hacker lost $7.8M to a faster bot, one stolen keyring hit five projects, and AI bug hunters found chains nobody was watching.
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Also inside this week's edition is Vitalik on why AI hacking doesn't doom security, Trail of Bits on auditing with "good enough" models, a hands-on course for building your own bug-hunting harness, and Coinspect's new tool for hunting weak wallet key generation.
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80 hand-picked reads, 15 whitepapers, 6 tools, 13 incidents. Attackers are reading the same papers every week. For ~$3/edition, you'll know everything they know. blockthreat.com/blockthreat-…
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BlockThreat - August, 2026 Attackers spent August moving up the difficulty curve. 62 incidents. $210M gone. Four trends from the August edition of BlockThreat 🧵
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"Highly profitable trading strategy" is back. Four years after Mango Markets, three protocols got hit with the same playbook in a single month: Tectonic - $75M Steakhouse- $36M Moonwell - $8.7M Thin liquidity makes old attacks new again.
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BlockThreat - Week 36, 2026 💸 @Liquid_BTC lost $320M 🪪 153M+ US drivers licenses leaked 🪲 More critical bugs patched in Cosmos ⚒️ Latest bug hunting tools and research
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