Europe's top securities regulator is warning that artificial intelligence is giving attackers new tools to hit financial infrastructure faster than regulators can respond, even as a June deadline for crypto licensing compliance approaches with significant gaps in authorization across the bloc.
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Tron founder Justin Sun filed a federal lawsuit in California on April 21, 2026, against World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the DeFi project co-founded by Donald Trump and his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., alleging the company secretly modified its smart contract to freeze approximately 2.9 billion of his tokens without notice or a governance vote. Sun invested roughly $45 million in WLFI tokens between November 2024 and January 2025, making him the project's largest publicly known investor at the time.
The Financial Conduct Authority visited eight London premises on April 22, targeting peer-to-peer cryptocurrency traders operating without registration in the agency's first coordinated enforcement action of this kind.
Preliminary attribution points to Lazarus Group after attackers exploited a 1-of-1 DVN (Decentralized Verifier Network) configuration choice compounded by compromised LayerZero servers, draining 116,500 rsETH tokens from liquid restaking protocol KelpDAO on April 18.
Unknown actors are sending fake "clearance" messages to shipping companies trapped by the Hormuz crisis, demanding Bitcoin and Tether payments that will not deliver safe passage.
Bengaluru, April 20, 2026.