Circle Freezes $12.6M USDC, Binance Eyes 3 Billion Users, AI Prompt Injection Tops Risks
A new class of attack against artificial intelligence assistants has moved to the top of every cybersecurity risk register. Prompt injection, in which hidden instructions buried inside emails, web pages, or documents hijack tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, sits at number one on the Open Worldwide Application Security Project‘s list of threats facing large language model applications. OpenAI conceded in December 2025 that the flaw is “unlikely to ever be fully solved,” while the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre warned that LLMs are “inherently confusable deputies” capable of unleashing breaches on a scale that could exceed the SQL injection era of the 2010s. The worlds largest digital asset exchange laid out an ambitious 2030 roadmap that aims to grow its verified user base more than tenfold, from roughly 310 million today to three billion. Head of VIP and Institutional Catherine Chen framed the target during an interview in which she acknowledged the market is “going through a hard time” but argued that downturn cycles are precisely when long-term infrastructure is built. With total crypto market capitalisation languishing near $2.7 trillion, down nearly 40% from the October all-time high of $4.38 trillion, several rivals have pivoted away from core trading