AI-powered banking malware attacks have increased by 400% year over year, according to Zimperium's "Mobile Banking Heist" report. The report identified 34 active malware families in 2025, targeting 1,243 financial brands across 90 countries. According to NS3.AI, this significant rise in attacks highlights the growing threat posed by AI-driven cybercrime in the financial sector.

Market reports indicate that an initial investigation into the Drift hack has uncovered a connection involving a North Korean intermediary. According to BlockBeats, it was revealed that a team member was approached in person by this intermediary during a meeting.

The U.S. Senate Banking Committee is set to conduct a hearing on April 16 to review the nomination of Kevin Warsh for the position of Federal Reserve Chair. According to Odaily, a criminal investigation concerning the Federal Reserve is ongoing, examining whether current Chair Jerome Powell provided false statements to Congress regarding costly renovations at the Fed's headquarters. Despite the investigation, the nomination process for Warsh is advancing, potentially leading to a conflict with the Trump administration's parallel initiatives. Committee member Thom Tillis has stated he will not vote to confirm Warsh until the investigation concludes, indicating that U.S. President Donald Trump may face challenges in advancing both processes simultaneously. However, by proceeding with the hearing, Trump appears determined to pursue this goal. The Senate Banking Committee has not yet included the hearing in its public schedule.

Market sources indicate that preliminary investigations into the Drift hack suggest that team members were contacted by a North Korean intermediary during a meeting.

On Apr 05, 2026, 02:11 AM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, Bitcoin has dropped below 67,000 USDT and is now trading at 66,995.1875 USDT, with a narrowed narrowed 0.20% increase in 24 hours.

Western Union has completed the acquisition of Dash, a digital wallet company based in Singapore. According to BlockBeats, the financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed. Dash was previously owned by Singtel. This acquisition marks Western Union's first digital wallet presence in the Asia-Pacific region and signifies the company's expansion beyond its traditional remittance services into digital financial services.

Western Union announced the completion of its acquisition of Dash, the digital wallet owned by Singtel. This transaction gives Western Union its first digital wallet in the Asia-Pacific region and is an important part of its Beyond strategy. Founded in 2014, Dash has over 1.4 million users in Singapore, offering services such as bill payment, overseas remittances, savings, investment, and insurance. Western Union stated that integrating Dash will allow its Singaporean customers to connect more directly to its global network covering more than 200 countries and regions. Vince Tallent, Head of Western Union Asia Pacific, said that combining Dash's local customer base with Western Union's global network will help provide a more seamless service. The specific amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

Polymarket has issued an apology for allowing users to speculate on the fate of a U.S. fighter jet pilot after the aircraft was shot down over Iran. According to Foresight News, NBC reported that a U.S. official confirmed a two-seater F-15E Strike Eagle was downed on Friday, with one crew member rescued and the other still missing. The now-deleted market allowed users to predict when the pilot would be rescued, with most speculating a Saturday rescue. The market was titled, "U.S. Confirms Pilot Will Be Rescued By...?" U.S. Representative Seth Moulton, a former Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq, criticized the market on social media platform X, highlighting the inappropriateness of such speculation during a dangerous search and rescue operation in Iran. In response to Moulton's post on X, Polymarket apologized and stated that the market had been removed. The company explained, "We have immediately taken down the market as it does not meet our integrity standards. This content should not have been published, and we are investigating how it bypassed our internal review mechanisms."

Decentralized lending protocol Project 0 has announced the resumption of its operations. According to Foresight News, the platform had previously halted activities and initiated a deleveraging process following a hack on the Drift protocol. Project 0 reported that the remaining socialized loss amounts to approximately $1.9147 million, which will be distributed across the credit pool, resulting in an average asset write-down of 2.61% for lenders. The write-down percentages vary by asset risk level, with USDC, SOL, and USDT experiencing a 1% reduction, mainstream assets like BTC and ETH seeing a 2.61% decrease, and WIF, BONK, and governance tokens facing a 6.62% reduction. Project 0 noted that as Drift assets are gradually unlocked and returned to affected users, the actual loss will be less than the stated baseline figures. Previously, Project 0 co-founder MacBrennan explained that the protocol employs a unified credit pool to enable cross-protocol margin functionality, which is a core mechanism of P0. However, some community members expressed dissatisfaction, stating that they were impacted despite not directly participating in Drift lending.

The Bitcoin network is urged to adopt a conservative approach to its client node software implementation to maintain its monetary properties and bolster network decentralization. According to Cointelegraph, Jimmy Song, co-founder of ProductionReady, a non-profit organization dedicated to funding open-source Bitcoin node software development and education, emphasizes the importance of cautious code changes. Song notes that the organization is biased against significant code modifications unless there is overwhelming community support. Song articulates a guiding principle: if a change does not clearly improve the monetary aspect of Bitcoin, it should not be implemented. ProductionReady aims to restore the 83-byte OP_Return data limit for non-monetary information in Bitcoin transactions, highlighting the necessity of keeping node storage costs low to ensure decentralization. Song explains that the more self-sovereign Bitcoin users become, the more decentralized and resilient the network is. This requires maintaining low costs for running a node, allowing ordinary individuals to participate. The Bitcoin network's decentralization is strengthened by maximizing nodes and making them accessible to average users, thereby reducing the risk of false transactions or network centralization through collusion. Bitcoin Core remains the preferred software for node operators, with 77.8% of the network running some version of the Core software, while 21.8% run Bitcoin Knots. In 2025, node storage and on-chain spam became contentious issues after Bitcoin Core developers altered the 83-byte data limit in Bitcoin Core version 30, the latest major upgrade to the reference implementation for Bitcoin node software. Despite significant community opposition, the limit was increased to 100,000 bytes. The proposal to change the limit received four times as many downvotes as upvotes on its GitHub pull request page. The release of Bitcoin Core 30 in October 2025 led to a historic surge in the number of Bitcoin nodes running Bitcoin Knots, an alternative node client software. The number of Bitcoin Knots nodes reached record highs, representing over 21.7% of nodes on the network, according to Coin Dance. Prior to the decision to remove the OP_Return function, only about 1% of the network was running the Knots software in 2024.

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