Senin, 13 Oktober 2025

CZ targeted by hackers


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CZ Targeted by Hackers, Lummis Says US BTC Reserve Funding Imminent, & More

Oct. 5 - 11

#1

CZ's Google account targeted by 'government-backed' hackers

Hackers attempted to infiltrate the account of Binance co-founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, signaling potential attacks from state-backed hacker groups, such as the North Korean Lazarus Group.

"Government-backed attackers" were attempting to steal Zhao's Google password, according to a Google warning shared by CZ, who suggested that it may be another attempt by North Korea's Lazarus Group.

"I get this warning from Google once in a while. Does anyone know what this is? North Korea Lazarus? Not that I have anything important on my account," said Zhao in a Friday X post.

The infamous North Korean Lazarus Group is the main suspect behind some of the most devastating cryptocurrency exploits, including the $1.4 billion Bybit hack, the industry's largest to date, which occurred on Feb. 21.

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#2

Polymarket founder Coplan joins billionaire club after NYSE parent investment: Report

Shayne Coplan, the founder of prediction market Polymarket, is once again in the limelight, as prediction markets shift from regulatory bans in the United States to legitimate financial markets with institutional backing.

Bloomberg named Coplan among the world's billionaires following a $2 billion investment in Polymarket by New York Stock Exchange parent Intercontinental Exchange.

Coplan launched the platform in 2020 when he was 21 after dropping out of New York University. He often worked on the platform from the bathroom in his New York apartment, he said.

#3

US Bitcoin reserve funding 'can start anytime' — Senator Lummis

Crypto-friendly US Senator Cynthia Lummis has confirmed that acquiring funds for the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) can "start anytime" now, though legislative red tape is holding it back.

In an X post on Monday, Lummis said that while it remains a "slog" on the legislative side of things, thanks to "President Trump, the acquisition of funds for an SBR can start anytime."

Lummis made the comments in response to a post from ProCap BTC chief investment officer Jeff Park, who shared a video of himself and Bitcoin bull Anthony Pompliano discussing the potential of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

Park was hypothesizing what would happen if the government were able to utilize its $1 trillion worth of paper gains from gold to reinvest into Bitcoin.

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Prediction of the Week

Bitcoin set for 'dramatic' surge if it doesn't top soon: Peter Brandt

Bitcoin is poised for unprecedented price discovery as long as it doesn't peak within the next few days, according to veteran trader Peter Brandt.

"It is reasonable to expect a bull market high any day now," Brandt told Cointelegraph on Wednesday, citing Bitcoin's historical cycle pattern, which has played out in the three previous cycles.

"These cycles from low-to-halving-to-high have not always been the same length, but the post-halving distance of each has always been equal to the pre-halving distance," Brandt said.

Brandt explained that Bitcoin hit its current cycle low on Nov. 9, 2022, which was 533 days before the Bitcoin halving on April 20, 2024.

FUD of the week

Major crypto betting platform Shuffle announces user data breach

Shuffle, a leading crypto betting platform, suffered a data breach after its third-party customer service provider was compromised, exposing the data of most of its users.

According to a Friday X post from Shuffle founder Noah Dummett, the company's customer relationship management service provider, Fast Track, suffered a data breach that exposed its users' data. Shuffle used the service in question for "programmatic email sending and various communications with users," suggesting that those messages and email addresses were likely among the exposed data.

"Unfortunately, it seems that their breach has impacted the majority of our users," Dummett wrote. He said that the company was investigating how the breach took place and "where this data ended up."

FUD of the week

South Korea ramps up crypto seizures, will target cold wallets

South Korea's National Tax Service (NTS) is expanding its crackdown on tax evasion, warning that even crypto assets stored in cold wallets will be subject to seizure.

According to a report from local news outlet Hankook Ilbo, an NTS official said the agency is prepared to conduct home searches and confiscate hard drives and cold wallet devices if it suspects that tax delinquents are hiding their crypto assets offline.

"We analyze tax delinquents' coin transaction history through crypto-tracking programs, and if there is suspicion of offline concealment, we will conduct home searches and seizures," the NTS spokesperson reportedly said.

Under the country's National Tax Collection Act, the NTS can request account information from local exchanges, freeze accounts from tax delinquents and liquidate their assets at market value to cover their unpaid taxes.