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Mustang Panda Deploys Updated COOLCLIENT Backdoor in Government Cyber Attacks 2026-01-28 at 15:16 By Threat actors with ties to China have been observed using an updated version of a backdoor called COOLCLIENT in cyber espionage attacks in 2025 to facilitate comprehensive data theft from infected endpoints. The activity has been attributed to Mustang Panda (aka […]

For Wall Street’s most sophisticated trading firms, the next alpha is onchain 2026-01-28 at 15:03 By Cointelegraph by Annabelle Huang Physical co-location and nanosecond advantages end as alpha shifts onchain. High-frequency trading firms own blockchain infrastructure. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

WisdomTree brings its full tokenized fund lineup to Solana 2026-01-28 at 15:03 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young WisdomTree adds Solana to its tokenized fund lineup, citing transaction speed as it expands a regulated multi-chain strategy. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Gold hits $5,300 as Tether stacks bullion and Coinbase pushes futures 2026-01-28 at 14:26 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Tether increases physical gold holdings to 130 metric tons while Coinbase promotes futures trading as Bitcoin lags and gold tops $5,300 per ounce. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

ECB’s Cipollone says digital euro key to payments sovereignty in ‘weaponised’ world 2026-01-28 at 14:26 By Cointelegraph by Christina Comben European Central Bank executive Piero Cipollone has argued that rising geopolitical tensions make a European-controlled payments system a strategic necessity. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

South Korea regulator backs ownership caps for crypto exchanges 2026-01-28 at 14:26 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra The Financial Services Commission chief says ownership limits are still under negotiation as lawmakers debate the Digital Asset Basic Act ahead of a mid-February deadline. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

How agentic AI can strain modern memory hierarchies 2026-01-28 at 14:25 By Abhishek Jadhav You can’t cheaply recompute without re-running the whole model – so KV cache starts piling up Feature  Large language model inference is often stateless, with each query handled independently and no carryover from previous interactions. A request arrives, the model generates […]

Oracle silent over user complaints about OCI London ‘wobble’ last week 2026-01-28 at 13:49 By Richard Speed But did it falter? Oracle debuts Schrödinger’s cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) users reported an outage late last week in its London region, yet despite complaints from Register readers, Big Red is staying quiet.… This article is an […]

Bitcoin eyes $90K ahead of FOMC: Watch these BTC price levels next 2026-01-28 at 13:03 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale Bitcoin price traded below $90,000 as investors braced for Jerome Powell’s post-FOMC speech that could trigger volatile swings toward key BTC price levels. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Password Reuse in Disguise: An Often-Missed Risky Workaround 2026-01-28 at 12:49 By When security teams discuss credential-related risk, the focus typically falls on threats such as phishing, malware, or ransomware. These attack methods continue to evolve and rightly command attention. However, one of the most persistent and underestimated risks to organizational security remains far more […]

Fake Python Spellchecker Packages on PyPI Delivered Hidden Remote Access Trojan 2026-01-28 at 12:49 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masquerade as spellcheckers but contain functionality to deliver a remote access trojan (RAT). The packages, named spellcheckerpy and spellcheckpy, are no longer available for download, […]

Google Warns of Active Exploitation of WinRAR Vulnerability CVE-2025-8088 2026-01-28 at 12:49 By Google on Tuesday revealed that multiple threat actors, including nation-state adversaries and financially motivated groups, are exploiting a now-patched critical security flaw in RARLAB WinRAR to establish initial access and deploy a diverse array of payloads. “Discovered and patched in July 2025, […]

Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service takes an unscheduled day off in Sweden 2026-01-28 at 12:33 By Richard Speed Cascading backend failures kept users locked out until home time Microsoft Azure, or at least the part of it that handles the OpenAI service in the Sweden Central region, was down and out for the count yesterday, leaving […]

UK tax collector plans £2B tech binge as legacy systems refuse to die 2026-01-28 at 12:28 By Lindsay Clark AWS and Capgemini loom large in HMRC’s procurement pipeline The UK’s tax collector is budgeting to spend more than £2 billion on new tech deals in the next couple of years, including a contract set for […]

OKX launches EU stablecoin payment card via regulated issuer Monavate 2026-01-28 at 12:06 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz OKX says the card supports USDC and USDG spending, is issued via Monavate on Mastercard’s network and is available to verified EU users. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source