Social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, is launching a new feature-rich messaging tool called XChat, aimed at rivaling established encrypted communication apps like Signal and Telegram. According to a June 1 X post by Musk, XChat includes audio and video calls, file sharing, disappearing messages, and “Bitcoin-style encryption.” ...
Watcher Guru, a leading crypto news platform, has confirmed that its X account was hacked early on March 21, 2025. The breach resulted in unauthorized posts spreading across its X, Telegram, Facebook, and Discord accounts. Watcher Guru has since regained control of its account and removed all unauthorized posts. The ...
A Russian-linked hacking group, Dark Storm, has claimed responsibility for a massive cyberattack that disrupted X (formerly Twitter) on March 10, rendering the platform inaccessible to thousands of users before services were quickly restored. Cybersecurity firm SpyoSecure first reported the incident, citing a now-deleted Telegram post by Dark Storm’s leader. ...
Over the weekend, several influential figures and celebrities in the crypto industry had their X accounts hacked, leading to the promotion of various cryptocurrencies, such as Luna2, ORDI, and celebrity-themed memecoins. One of the notable victims was Gigantic-Cassocked-Rebirth, or GCR, a well-known pseudonymous cryptocurrency investor. On May 26, GCR’s X ...
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, has endorsed a recent move to make the "Likes" feature private X (formerly Twitter). Buterin described the move as a "good decision" in a post about the move on the decentralized social media platform Farcaster while referencing X engineer Wang Haofei's recent confirmation of ...
In another significant step marking its expansion into the financial services sector, X (formerly Twitter) has obtained a financial services license in another state in the U.S. According to public records, X, via its subsidiary Twitter Payments, secured a currency transmitter license from the government of Rhode Island on August ...
