BTCPay to merchants: pull the plug
BTCPay Server, a free, open-source tool businesses use to accept bitcoin, told users on Sunday to shut down their servers after reports that attackers were draining "hot wallets,"…
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Today's brief · Monday, November 2, 2026
Shut it down, then update
- A bitcoin payment tool tells merchants to switch off their servers
- Trigger.dev says an attacker reached customer secrets
- The FBI names North Korea in the Binance heist
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Trigger.dev's secrets got out.
The developer automation platform said Sunday that an attacker gained unauthorized access to environment variables for a subset of organizations. It blocked the exploit and…
The FBI names the Binance thief.
The FBI said Saturday that North Korea's "TraderTraitor" hackers stole more than $6 billion from Binance on or about October 29. It asked crypto firms to block transactions tied…
A big week for the AI trade.
Midterms, earnings from Apple, AMD and Palantir, and the jobs report will test stocks after Alphabet and Amazon results sent the Nasdaq down 2.9% Friday, Reuters reported.
Paid GOAT for priority shipping that came late?
The FTC is sending more than $100,000 to 6,205 GOAT customers who hadn't already been refunded, The Verge reported. Real refunds never ask for a fee.
Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan and researcher Chris Ryan run a free live hacking demo, "Hacking The Tragic Quadra
Expect ClickFix, device code phishing and AI prompt injection.
Northflank says: assume it's all stolen
Northflank, a cloud platform developers use to run apps and AI tools, told customers on October 30 to assume every environment variable stored there had been decrypted. Those…
GitLab's worst-case bug is live.
CISA added CVE-2026-97229 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 29. CISA says the flaw can let an unauthenticated attacker run code on GitLab servers through a…
Chainalysis meets AI-driven intruders.
The blockchain analytics firm said attackers used "offensive agentic techniques" to get into its internal systems, exposing customer names, emails, user IDs and role labels. It…
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Trivia
On November 2, 1988, a worm launched from MIT became the first internet worm to grab mainstream headlines. What's it called?
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The Morris worm.
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On November 2, 2000, the Expedition 1 crew arrived at the International Space Station, starting a continuous human presence in space that hasn't broken since.
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