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⚠️ Two French Crypto Millionaires Kidnapped While Trying to Buy Cannabis
Two French crypto millionaires in their 20s were reportedly kidnapped in London after meeting with a group they believed would sell them cannabis. Instead, they were kidnapped and tortured for two days while their captors demanded $150,000 in cryptocurrency.
The victims were allegedly beaten, forced to strip naked, burned with cigarettes, and scalded with boiling water. One victim was released after transferring $30,000 in cryptocurrency, while the second was reportedly “sold” to another gang. The incident ended after a high-speed police chase that crashed into a lamppost, leading to the arrest of three suspects, aged 18, 20, and 22.
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🚨 Estimated Losses From the Coldcard Hardware Wallet Exploit Have Risen to $71 Million
The estimated losses from yesterday’s Coldcard hardware wallet exploit have now risen from an initial ~$38 million to approximately $71 million, with more than 1,200 wallets drained.
The exploit allowed attackers to brute-force predictable seed phrases generated on vulnerable Coldcard Mk3 wallets. Although the victims’ devices remained offline, their seed phrases were compromised at the time of generation due to a flawed random number generator.
This has become the biggest single exploit of July 2026, surpassing June’s Humanity Protocol exploit, which led to $30 million in losses.
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🚨 Russia Declares Pavel Durov Wanted Internationally
Pavel Durov has reportedly been placed on Russia’s international wanted list after the country’s Federal Security Service (FSB) charged him under Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Russian Criminal Code, which covers facilitating terrorist activities.
According to the FSB, Ukrainian intelligence services allegedly used the Telegram dating bot “Leo” to recruit Russian citizens aged 12-22 for acts of sabotage, attacks on police and arson. The agency claims that 46 people have been detained in connection with these cases since July 2025.
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🔒 North Korean Hackers Hacked Their Own Central Bank
A criminal ring made up of former North Korean military hackers and elite IT graduates reportedly hacked the internal networks of North Korea’s Central Bank and Foreign Trade Bank to steal state funds for personal profit.
The group allegedly stole small amounts of money over time to avoid detection, then converted the funds into cryptocurrency before laundering them through overseas wallets.
According to Daily NK, North Korea’s National Intelligence Agency arrested the group on July 12. What will happen to the hackers is currently unknown.
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🚨 New Telegram Stars Exploit
A new exploit has been discovered in Telegram that allows Japanese accounts to purchase 10,000 Stars for just $1.50, even though the normal price is $150.
Shortly after the exploit was discovered, many Chinese users began mass-buying expensive gifts with Stars obtained through the bug.
However, most of the gifts and Stars are expected to be refunded once Telegram fixes the exploit. Many accounts that abused the exploit have already been deactivated, and using it could result in your account being frozen or permanently banned.
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😮 FBI Seizes a Telegram Channel for the First Time Ever
FBI Director Kash Patel announced today that as part of the Shunda Compound takedown, authorities disrupted a major scam network responsible for stealing over $700 million from U.S. victims.
The operation dismantled networks linked to hundreds of millions in losses and included the first-ever federal seizure of a Telegram recruitment channel operated by the scammers.
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🤯 Anonymous Number +888 8 666 Sold for $950,000
The anonymous Telegram number +888 8 666 was reportedly sold today for $950,000. According to the Chinese news channel @hkhk, the deal was completed privately.
The same number was previously purchased for $608,400 in March by another Chinese collector, @jing.
ℹ️ Fun Fact: If this sale had taken place through Fragment, it would have become the most expensive anonymous number ever sold on the platform.
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⚠️ UPDATE: UK National Crime Agency Releases Arrest Footage of Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair
The UK’s National Crime Agency has shared videos of the arrests of Thalha Jubair (aka Operator) and Owen Flowers (aka Holy), who stole tens of millions of dollars through ransomware attacks.
They both pleaded guilty to the attacks last month and were today sentenced to 5 years and 6 months in prison each.
Authorities say Jubair was also convicted of refusing to provide the PINs and passwords for devices seized from him.
🧐 Do you think they should’ve received a longer sentence?
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🚨 Doxbin Admin “KT” Has Been Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison
Callum Dare, a Doxbin administrator known as “KT” and @/doxer on Telegram, has been sentenced to two years and three months in prison in Wales.
According to court documents, he encouraged and assisted others in carrying out swatting attacks. Authorities say he was caught after linking information to his personal PayPal account, which revealed his email and home address.
According to his defense lawyer, he has autism, ADHD, and a borderline low IQ. He pleaded guilty to encouraging and assisting swatting attacks and was sentenced today, July 15.
UPDATE: It appears that “KT,” who was sentenced, was not a Doxbin administrator, but an impersonator.
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🚫 Fragment Has Banned a Username That Is Still on Auction
The username @weaklings was put up for auction yesterday with a 7-day bidding period but was banned on Fragment just a few hours later. Interestingly, users can still place bids on a banned username while the auction remains active.
At the moment, the reason for the ban remains unclear. It is also unclear whether the highest bidder will get their funds refunded after the auction ends.
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✉️ New BotFather "Bot Cloud" Feature Is Now Available to a Limited Number of Users
On Telegram’s test server, Telegram introduced a new setting called “Bot Cloud.” With Bot Cloud, developers will be able to run bots, JavaScript code, and databases directly on Telegram’s infrastructure without the need for a dedicated server, VPS, webhooks, or long polling.
Telegram has begun inviting previous contest winners to test Bot Cloud and the new Bot API. Access is currently invitation-only. However, the documentation is now available to everyone:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/serverless
💸 17-Year-Old Robbed While Trying to Exchange Cash for Cryptocurrency
A 17-year-old teenager was robbed in Moscow after attempting to exchange 1,500,000 rubles (~$19,000) for cryptocurrency.
The teen was reportedly attacked shortly after leaving a building in Moscow City with his friends. Three suspects followed them to their taxi, pulled him out of the car, and stole the bag containing the cash.
Police later detained the three suspects and recovered most of the stolen cash. All three are now facing grand larceny charges that carry a maximum sentence of up to 12 years in prison.
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⚠️ UPDATE: New Court Files Reveal How Microsoft Helped the FBI Identify Peter Stokes
The court files reveal that Microsoft helped the FBI track Peter Stokes down using GDID — a Global Device Identifier, which is assigned to every Windows installation and cannot be changed unless the OS is wiped. The GDID helped them track:
• IP history
• Full web activity
• Video game activity and games played
• Logged-in social accounts, including Snapchat, Facebook, and Apple
According to the court documents, the critical mistake was using a VPN to create the ngrok account used in the May 2025 Tiffany & Co. hack from the same Windows device associated with his GDID.
Although the account was created from a VPN IP address ending in .168, Microsoft records show that the same GDID (6755467234350028) accessed the ngrok signup page at the exact time the account was created, linking the hack to his personal social accounts.
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🤨 ESA Says Minecraft Private Servers Are Illegal
Jennifer Gibbons, Vice President of State Government Affairs at the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), testified before the California Senate and argued that private servers for games like Minecraft and Call of Duty are unauthorized and considered piracy by the video game industry.
During the hearing, a lawmaker compared community-run servers to “the black market of video games,” and Gibbons agreed with the comparison. She made the comments while opposing the Protect Our Games Act, arguing that the bill could weaken publishers’ intellectual property rights by protecting unauthorized private servers.
However, the bill ultimately failed to advance in the California Senate after not receiving enough votes.
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🫡 Google Has Officially Shut Down the Tenor API
Google has officially disabled the Tenor API for developers on June 30, 2026. This change means built-in GIF search will no longer work in many popular apps, including Telegram, Discord, and X.
Telegram used Tenor for over 7 years. When Telegram launched in 2013, it originally used GIPHY before switching to Tenor in 2018. Telegram has now switched to Klipy as its GIF provider.
Most apps had several months to prepare and have already switched to alternative GIF providers. The GIF feature on most platforms should work without any problems.
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👀 Telegram Begins Integrating the Native GRAM Wallet in the Beta Version
According to beta testers, Telegram Beta for iOS v12.9.3 has begun integrating the built-in GRAM Wallet and a new MTProto layer for TON (GRAM) that Pavel Durov introduced earlier directly into the app.
Telegram has also made a new bot called @tgmfabot, which reportedly will allow users to add an extra layer of protection to their wallet by enabling 2FA verification with their passcode. This is intended to help protect users’ funds even if their seed phrase is compromised.
The wallet is expected to fully roll out across all platforms in the next update.
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🤣 UPDATE: Pavel Durov Changed His Profile Picture Following Russia’s Terrorism Allegations Against Him
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👀 Binance Tests Employees with Fake Phishing Attacks
Binance’s Chief Security Officer Jimmy Su has revealed that the company has been running simulated phishing attacks against its own employees for the past four years to test their resistance to social engineering.
The simulated phishing attacks are run by Binance’s red team, an internal ethical hacking unit whose job is to break into the company’s systems to identify vulnerabilities. Binance’s Chief Security Officer also said that employees who repeatedly fail the tests are fired.
🧐 Do you think this would’ve helped prevent the $1B Bybit hack?
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⚠️ UPDATE: Telegram Has Started Refunding Stars from the Exploit
Following yesterday’s exploit involving Japanese accounts and Telegram Stars, Telegram has now fixed the issue and has begun actively refunding both the Stars and the gifts that were purchased using the exploit.
Telegram has also increased the cooldown for users who sold their gifts for exploited Stars. Those gifts are being refunded, but the affected users must now wait 27 days before they can transfer them.
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🚨 Lapsus$ Extortion Group Announces Its Retirement
The notorious hacking group Lapsus$ has announced its retirement on its clearnet website lapsus.bz.
The group claimed it achieved all of its goals, bypassed the security of multiple organizations, made millions, and is voluntarily ending its operations. It also mocked investigators and the FBI, and said there would be no further leaks or communications from its side.
UPDATE: The previously reported retirement announcement appears to have been posted by individuals impersonating Lapsus$ who are associated with another cybercriminal group TeamPCP. One of Lapsus$’s actual members has since confirmed that the group is not retiring.
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🚨 Pavel Durov Announces Telegram’s New Built-In Non-Custodial Crypto Wallet
Pavel Durov has announced that Telegram will launch a built-in non-custodial crypto wallet this summer.
Native Gram wallets will be integrated into Telegram for every user, enabling instant, zero-fee crypto transactions for more than 1 billion users. As a non-custodial wallet, users will have full control of their own funds.
This is believed to be step 5 of 7 in the MTONGA roadmap.
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🚨 Anthropic Adds Fable 5 to Premium Plans with 50% Usage Limit
Anthropic team announced today that starting July 20, its Claude Fable 5 model will be included as a standard feature in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of usage limits. Pro and Team Standard users will keep access through usage credits and receive a one-time $100 credit to ease the transition.
Anthropic said demand for Fable 5 was difficult to predict, so it rolled out access to subscribers in stages while adding more server capacity. Demand was higher than expected, so it couldn’t offer unlimited access right away.
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📱 X Will Become Open Source!
Elon Musk has officially confirmed that X will make its entire platform codebase open source after the team completes reviewing it for security vulnerabilities.
With a fully open-source codebase, users and developers will be able to study X’s inner workings and algorithms, develop third-party tools, extensions, build custom clients and alternative front-ends, create more powerful bots, report bugs, and even use the code for their own projects.
Elon Musk had previously hinted that X would become open source, but officially confirmed it today in a post on X.
💬 Do you think making X open source will make the platform better or worse?
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⚠️ UPDATE: The t.me Domain Has Been Restored
The suspended t.me domain has now been restored by the .ME registry. User links and t.me links in browsers should now work normally for everyone.
It may take up to 24 hours for the t.me domain to be fully restored on all users’ devices. Telegram is also expected to switch links back from telegram.me to t.me during this time.
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🚫 t.me Domain Has Been Suspended
Earlier today, domain registrar GoDaddy and .ME registry operator Identity Digital suspended Telegram’s t.me domain and placed it on serverHold status. However, t.me links within Telegram itself still work on some devices.
Telegram has now temporarily switched to telegram.me domains until the t.me domain is reinstated. Links in Telegram channels now display telegram.me/ instead of t.me/.
According to Identity Digital, the registry operator for .ME domains, the t.me domain was suspended due to OFAC-related sanctions and compliance requirements.
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⚠️ TON Network Is Experiencing a Slowdown
The TON Network is currently experiencing a slowdown in block production and message processing across workchain shards.
As a result, users may encounter delays when sending transactions or using TON-based services. Some operations, including transferring Gifts or purchasing Telegram Stars and Telegram Premium through Fragment, may be delayed or temporarily unavailable.
The cause of the slowdown has not been disclosed. The TON Core team said it is aware of the issue and is actively working to resolve it.
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⚠️ MRKT Marketplace Has Been Exploited
One of the most popular gift marketplaces on Telegram, @MRKT, has been exploited. According to reports, a bug allowed users to place offers on NFTs and after canceling an offer receive the full amount back to their balance.
That balance could then be used to purchase gifts, allowing users to buy all of the Plush Pepe gifts listed on the marketplace and even withdraw a large amount of funds from the platform.
The current losses are estimated to exceed $210,000 from the sale of Plush Pepe gifts alone.
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👀 New Telegram 12.9 Upcoming Features
The next Telegram update is expected to introduce several new features. Here are three of the most interesting additions:
• Built-in Sticker to Emoji Conversion
Telegram will allow users to convert existing stickers into custom Premium emoji. To do this, users can open an emoji pack, tap the “+” button, and select “Adapt from a Sticker.”
Bots will be able to send Ephemeral messages directly to specific users, along with support for Ephemeral commands. These messages are only visible to the recipient, are stored locally, and cannot be forwarded or reacted to. However, users will still be able to report, copy, and translate them.
Telegram will introduce Communities, a new way to organize related groups and channels in one place. Communities will let users collect multiple related groups and channels into a single list, making them easier to manage and navigate. The feature is similar to folders, but is designed specifically for organizing related communities together.
🔥 FBI Seizes Wrong NetNut Domain During Takedown
Earlier today, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, working alongside the FBI, DOJ, and other partners, disrupted the NetNut (also known as Popa) residential proxy botnet.
However, it appears the FBI and the DOJ seized the wrong domain during the operation. The FBI seized netnut[.]com, but the Internet Archive does not show that it ever hosted the NetNut proxy service, while netnut[.]io, the service’s primary domain, remains online.
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📱 WhatsApp Rolls Out Username Reservations
WhatsApp has officially started rolling out its usernames and username reservation feature. Users can now reserve unique handles, allowing them to use the app without sharing their phone numbers.
How to Reserve: Update WhatsApp → Go to Settings → Tap your profile → Look for Username or Reserve Username.
The rollout is phased worldwide, so the feature is already working for some users while others may not see the option yet.
⚠️ NOTE: If a username (e.g., @King) is already taken on Instagram or Facebook by someone else, you generally cannot claim the exact same one on WhatsApp — unless you prove ownership through Meta’s Accounts Center and link the accounts.
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