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Microsoft USB Worm Hijacks Clipboards to Steal Cryptocurrency via Tor

A new USB worm, active since February 2026, steals cryptocurrency by monitoring Windows clipboard for wallet addresses and seed phrases,…

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Flagright secures $12.5M to fight financial crime with AI

Flagright, founded by Baran Ozkan after failing to find a unified compliance tool, raised $12.5 million in Series A funding…

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Pump.Fun Bounties Platform: A Black Hole of Grifting

Pump.Fun GO, a new feature on the crypto platform Pump.Fun, allows users to deposit crypto bounties into escrow for others…

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Flagright secures $12.5M to fight financial crime with AI

Flagright, founded by Baran Ozkan after failing to find a unified compliance tool, raised $12.5 million in Series A funding…

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Warren raises €10M to revamp Belgium’s workplace pensions

Warren has raised €10 million in seed funding to address Belgium's inadequate workplace pensions, where median reserves for workers aged…

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Microsoft uncovers stealthy backdoor targeting crypto wallets

Microsoft discovered "Crypto Clipper," a new self-propagating malware that spreads via USB drives and steals cryptocurrency credentials by monitoring clipboard…

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Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation with Ripple backing

Flutterwave raised a Series E funding round at a $3.2 billion valuation, including an investment from Ripple, bringing its total…

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Polymarket’s $345M Iran bet stuck over definition of ‘permanent’

A $345 million trading volume is frozen on Polymarket due to a dispute over whether the US-Iran peace deal is…

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26 Chinese Banks Join Digital Yuan Cross-Border Payment Trial

The People's Bank of China has expanded its digital yuan pilot program by adding 26 more banks, shifting the e-CNY's…

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Japan’s top taxi app raises $553M in year’s largest IPO

Go Inc., Japan's leading taxi-hailing app operator, debuted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange with the country's largest IPO this year,…

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India’s Razorpay files for confidential IPO

Razorpay has submitted confidential draft papers for an IPO, allowing it to keep financial details private until closer to the…

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De Beers bets on blockchain as lab-grown diamond sales surge

De Beers is investing in blockchain platform Tracr to provide verifiable provenance for natural diamonds, with the Gemological Institute of…

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Crypto exchanges promised SpaceX IPO access via tokenized stock, but never delivered

Crypto exchanges Binance Wallet, Bybit, and Bitget Wallet pulled their tokenized SpaceX stock offerings after intermediary xStocks failed to deliver…

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Stripe Enables AI Agents to Buy Cloud Services

On April 30, 2026, Stripe launched Projects, a commerce protocol enabling AI agents to purchase and manage infrastructure like accounts,…

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Visa processes AI-driven payments for OpenAI, but can you trust it?

Visa partnered with OpenAI to integrate its Trusted Agent Protocol, enabling AI agents to make payments within user-defined guardrails like…

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ECB curbs Revolut’s ‘self-guided missiles’

The European Central Bank secretly intervened last year to bar Revolut from launching new products in the European Economic Area…

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Authorities shut down €336M crypto laundering hub for cybercriminals

An international operation dismantled the cryptocurrency laundering service "AudiA6", which processed over "€336 million" in illegal funds for ransomware groups…

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Why $1 Trillion Is an Absurd Amount of Money

Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire, a sum so vast that counting a trillion seconds would require starting…

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Authorities Shut Down ‘AudiA6’ Ransomware Crypto-Laundering Ring

Law enforcement from 11 countries, coordinated by Europol, dismantled the "AudiA6" cryptocurrency laundering network, which processed over $380 million for…

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Neobank’s Series E valuation falls below 2021 peak

Current raised $80 million led by Springcoast Partners at a $1.5 billion valuation, a clear down round from its 2021…

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