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highascanbe retweeted
not only did he fail to be the president of peace as he promised, but his first act as president until now were self-serving: from making billions with a presidential memecoin, to accepting large gifts from the UAE trillionaires, to making a farce out of presidential pardons, etc
highascanbe retweeted
The Binance hacker might have just pulled off one of the smartest moves I’ve seen in crypto.
First, Tether froze $1.5 billion in USDT.
Then Circle froze another $800 million in USDC.
At that point, it looked like the hacker’s money was trapped.
But apparently, he had already planned for that.
Instead of holding the stolen USDT in a wallet, he allegedly deposited it into Aave and used it as collateral to borrow ETH.
Then he walked away.
That’s where the story gets crazy.
Tether can freeze the USDT sitting in the wallet.
But it can’t freeze the ETH he already borrowed.
So now Aave is left holding frozen collateral, while the hacker is sitting on liquid ETH.
And unless the protocol can recover it somehow, he may not even need to pay the loan back.
Two companies froze billions of dollars in seconds.
But someone who understood how to use DeFi may have found a way around both of them.
Pretty insane when you think about it.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The described Aave deposit used only ~60M USDT as collateral to borrow 19,762 WETH before freezes hit the main wallet, not the bulk of funds; Aave states the overcollateralized position is subject to normal liquidation with no material protocol risk.
governance.aave.com/t/binance-hot-…
x.com/binance/status…
drk.vc/news/binance-1…
highascanbe retweeted
In the last 24 hours alone, I've seen.
1. iPhone 11 through 16 are apparently vulnerable to remote attacks.
2. SSL certificates are broken until browsers remove eMudhra CA.
3. PHP RCE (php2shell)
One is a leaked remote unlock capability for the most common phones on the planet.
One is a broken link in the certificate authority system that underpins the entire encrypted web and another is a core language vulnerability that affects a huge fraction of the internet’s servers.
This is the pace now.
AI does not have to "take over" for the environment to become unmanageable by traditional human processes. It only has to make discovery, weaponisation, and automation faster than the average organisation’s inventory, patching, and monitoring cycle.
If your plan was still "wait and see how AI plays out in security," I hope you have loyal religiously loyal customers and a hell of an insurance policy.
Inventory what you run (especially PHP and anything that trusts public CAs), prepare to patch at the speed these things now appear, and start treating AI-assisted detection and response as table stakes rather than a future project.
The window for comfortable observation is closed.
highascanbe retweeted
Is it me or does robinhood:0x39dbed3a2bd333467115de45665cc57f813c4571 look like one of the most obvious continuation patterns in a bull market that you could ask for?
highascanbe retweeted
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