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North Korea’s fake job interviews infected 30,000 devices
North Korean cybercriminals posing as recruiters used fake coding tests and job interviews to infect more than 30,000 devices and steal over $10 million. The WaterPlum campaign targeted web designers, engineers and cryptocurrency specialists, potentially giving attackers access to victims’ future employers and enabling theft of intellectual property, credentials and digital assets. An international advisory…
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Revolut reportedly facing $3m ransom demand after hackers steal hundreds of customers’ data
Revolut, Europe’s largest financial technology company, has fallen victim to a sophisticated data breach orchestrated through a compromised Italian government email system. Hackers posing as government officials contacted Revolut staff to obtain personal details of cryptocurrency customers, with attackers subsequently demanding $3 million to prevent publication of the stolen data. The incident raises concerns about…
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DOJ says companies used Binance to funnel $1.5 billion in crypto to Iran
The US Department of Justice has accused several companies of using the cryptocurrency exchange Binance to funnel roughly $1.5 billion to Iran, allegedly to help fund the country’s military, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Prosecutors disclosed the scheme in a forfeiture complaint seeking to seize $61 million in cryptocurrency, and the allegations mark the…
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The sinister influence of crypto billionaires on our politics | Letters
Three Guardian readers respond to the disclosure that Christopher Harborne has donated £36m to Reform UK, matching an earlier gift from Ben Delo, both fortunes built on cryptocurrency. The letters argue that crypto wealth concentrates in the hands of early insiders rather than being genuinely decentralised, and warn that a party presenting itself as pro-ordinary-people…
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Middle East drone strikes send oil above $108 as Man Utd crash 5-0
At home, Harry Dunn’s mother slams a secret US diplomat flight amid a child-images inquiry, and an ex-HMP Bristol pharmacy technician is jailed for smuggling drugs; Revolut suffers a data breach and MPs push for an AI regulator.
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Crypto billionaires’ donations expose flaws in Britain’s political funding rules
The Guardian’s editorial argues that huge crypto-linked donations to Reform UK expose the danger of Britain’s weak political funding rules and calls for the House of Lords to tighten the representation of the people bill. It criticises the government’s failure to cap donations and warns that unchecked wealth is letting rich individuals buy outsized political…
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Teravolt looks to cannibalize older industries to meet AI power demand
Teravolt, a London-based AI infrastructure firm, argues that meeting soaring AI power demand means repurposing older industrial assets, such as Bitcoin mining farms, aluminium smelters and disused thermal power plants, into datacentres rather than waiting for new grid capacity to be built. This matters because forecasters expect a substantial shortfall between electricity supply and AI…
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Revolut falls for fake government requests, hands over customer data
Revolut, the British digital bank, exposed sensitive customer data after falling for a sophisticated impersonation scam in which fraudsters used a genuine government agency’s email domain to submit bogus requests for information. The incident matters because it compromised highly sensitive identity and financial records, and those claiming responsibility are now threatening to leak further data…
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More than 800,000 have applied for citizenship to new microstate aiming to become ‘utopia’ for crypto billionaires, founder claims
A Czech libertarian politician, Vit Jedlicka, says more than 800,000 people have applied for citizenship of “Liberland”, a self-declared crypto micronation on an uninhabited stretch of disputed floodplain along the Danube River, between Serbia and Croatia. Founded in 2015 on the principle that unclaimed land belongs to whoever occupies it first, the project aims to…
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Unions demand Burnham acts over £72m ‘super-donations’ to Reform – but insist their own funding of Labour is fine
Nigel Farage has hit back at Labour’s attempt to unwind two “super-donations” worth £72million to Reform UK, insisting the gifts from crypto billionaires Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo are “100 per cent compliant” with current law and expressing confidence they would survive even if the Government pushes through retrospective changes. The row escalated after TUC…