December 2025

Silvergate Bank lawsuit calls for FTX, Alameda clients to weigh in on $10M settlement 2025-12-17 at 20:02 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright More than 46,000 claimants could potentially receive a payout from a court-approved settlement involving the FTX-tied Silvergate Bank, which shuttered in 2023. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

GitHub is going to start charging you for using your own hardware 2025-12-17 at 19:37 By Brandon Vigliarolo Engineers cry foul over plan to charge $0.002/min for self-hosted Actions runners GitHub customers, take notice: Come March, the Microsoft-owned repository host will begin charging for some uses of self-hosted Actions runners.… This article is an excerpt

Key Signs of Mental Health Struggles in Security 2025-12-17 at 19:13 By John Rodriguez, Founder of Empathic Security Cultures LLC, shares why mental health is so crucial in security. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

NASA tries savin’ MAVEN as Mars probe loses contact with Earth 2025-12-17 at 18:47 By Richard Speed Spacecraft was ‘rotating in an unexpected manner’ and might have shifted orbit NASA is still trying to recontact the MAVEN Mars orbiter after it stopped responding earlier this month, with fragmentary tracking data hinting the craft may be

Blockchain company Nomad to repay users under FTC deal after $186M cyberattack 2025-12-17 at 18:25 By Connor Jones Regulator makes various additional demands over alleged cybersecurity failings In proposing a settlement agreement, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that Illusory Systems must repay users funds lost in a 2022 cyberattack.… This article is an excerpt

Bitcoin tags $90K as crypto market spike liquidates $120M shorts 2025-12-17 at 18:04 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin took out liquidity at the Wall Street open as a move above $90,000 was followed by a snap retracement, liquidating late long and short entries. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Kyrgyzstan’s USDKG shows how real-asset stablecoins are evolving in emerging markets 2025-12-17 at 18:04 By Cointelegraph by Bradley Peak Kyrgyzstan’s USDKG blends a USD peg with a gold reserve claim. Here’s what it signals for emerging markets and what to verify next. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 2025-12-17 at 18:04 By Thomas Claburn CodeRabbit review of pull requests shows meatbags beat clankers Generating code using AI increases the number of issues that need to be reviewed and the severity of those issues.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

APT28 Targets Ukrainian UKR-net Users in Long-Running Credential Phishing Campaign 2025-12-17 at 17:47 By The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT28 has been attributed to what has been described as a “sustained” credential-harvesting campaign targeting users of UKR[.]net, a webmail and news service popular in Ukraine. The activity, observed by Recorded Future’s Insikt Group

New ForumTroll Phishing Attacks Target Russian Scholars Using Fake eLibrary Emails 2025-12-17 at 17:47 By The threat actor linked to Operation ForumTroll has been attributed to a fresh set of phishing attacks targeting individuals within Russia, according to Kaspersky. The Russian cybersecurity vendor said it detected the new activity in October 2025. The origins of

Have We Reached a Public Cloud Tipping Point? ​ 2025-12-17 at 17:31 By Sunjeet Randhawa Part 1 of 2: Escalating outages in 2025, combined with evolving security risks, are causing more organizations to rethink their cloud strategy This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

How YouTube’s stablecoin payouts could change creator monetization 2025-12-17 at 17:31 By Cointelegraph by Onkar Singh YouTube has added an opt-in option allowing eligible US creators to receive payouts in PayPal’s dollar-backed stablecoin, PYUSD. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Did Bitcoin’s 4-year cycle break, and is the bull market really over? 2025-12-17 at 17:31 By Cointelegraph by Yashu Gola Bitcoin ETFs, corporate treasuries, and macro tailwinds are challenging BTC’s traditional four-year cycle, which could result in new all-time highs in 2026. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Securitize announces ‘real’ tokenized stocks, touts DeFi integration 2025-12-17 at 17:31 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Securitize plans to launch compliant, natively tokenized stocks in early 2026, enabling real equity ownership to trade 24/7 fully onchain. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

NATO’s battle for cloud sovereignty: speed is existential 2025-12-17 at 17:31 By Joe Fay Build a digital backbone faster than adversaries can evovle or lose the information war NATO is in an existential race to develop sovereign cloud based technologies to underpin its mission, the alliance’s Assistant Secretary General for Cyber and Digital Transformation told

California DMV tells Tesla to ease off on those Autopilot claims 2025-12-17 at 16:32 By Joe Fay Full Self-Driving Capability marketing deemed a ‘violation of state law’ The California DMV says Tesla’s use of the term Autopilot is misleading and violated state law, but has hit the brakes on a proposed 30-day suspension of the

New protocol targets redemption delays in $20B tokenized market 2025-12-17 at 16:03 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Uniform Labs’ Multiliquid aims to bridge the gap between tokenized funds and stablecoins, targeting liquidity constraints that have slowed institutional adoption. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source