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What changes in 2026 security, AI driven social engineering

Financial Security in 2026: AI, DORA, Web2, Web3

How AI enabled fraud, DORA obligations, and Web2 Web3 convergence reshape bank security in 2026, plus what to monitor and rehearse.

Paul

February 27, 2026

Best Practices

AI coding risks, prompt injection, and AppSec controls.

The End of the AppSec Black Box

AI coding assistants add new risk: prompt injection, NHIs, and subtle auth bugs. Controls and why Cantina AI Code Analyzer matters.

Paul

February 25, 2026

Best Practices

Account abstraction shifts security to infrastructure. Hardening ERC 4337 bundlers and paymasters, plus signature validation and replay defenses.

Top 5 Cyber Threats for Banks in 2026

Account abstraction expands risk beyond smart accounts. Secure ERC 4337 bundlers, paymasters, and signatures against replay and policy drift.

Paul

February 24, 2026

Best Practices

Zero Trust plus cloud governance for banks, with practical controls for credentials, insider risk, segmentation, monitoring, and incident response.

Zero Trust & Cloud Security for Financial Institutions

How institutions can apply Zero Trust and cloud security controls, including IAM, segmentation, monitoring, and governance, to reduce risk.

Paul

February 23, 2026

Best Practices

Lazarus Group uses Zoom deepfakes and audio fix files to steal keys. Verification steps for teams before installs or approvals.

Deepfakes & Billion-Dollar Heists: The Lazarus Group Act

Deepfake Zoom calls and fake plugins are Lazarus’s 2025 to 2026 playbook. Controls to prevent key theft, wallet drains, and downtime.

Paul

February 20, 2026

Ecosystem

Solana upgrades can change overnight. 2026 security checklist for upgrade keys, state migrations, and monitoring program diffs.

Solana Upgrade Patterns: Security Guide for 2026

Solana programs upgrade by default. Learn 2026 risks, ghost state, uninitialized accounts, key compromise, and safer authority controls.

Paul

February 19, 2026

Security Guides

Delta neutral stablecoins stay stable only if hedges execute. Key checks for funding rate stress, keeper ops, liquidation risk, and NAV accuracy.

Auditing Delta Neutral Stablecoins for Peg Safety

Audit delta neutral stablecoins with funding rate stress tests, hedge execution checks, keeper security, and NAV accounting for fair redemptions.

Paul

February 17, 2026

Spearbit

Lookalike Domains: Stop Brand Impersonation

Lookalike domains power phishing and invoice fraud. Learn how to detect typosquats with DNS monitoring, CT alerts, and fast takedowns.

Paul

February 17, 2026

Best Practices

The vibe died, AI shipped the feature, and security broke. ClawdStrike adds checks for secrets, auth, and runtime behavior.

Why Your "Vibe Coded" App is a Ticking Time Bomb

Vibe coding ships fast, but AI can break auth, leak secrets, and ship unsafe defaults. Learn the risks and how ClawdStrike.ai helps.

Cantina

February 16, 2026

Best Practices

Provenance EndBlocker panic bug found by Cantina AI Code Analyzer.

Cantina AI Code Analyzer Found a Provenance Bug

Cantina AI Code Analyzer found a consensus liveness bug in Provenance v1.27.0. Fix shipped in v1.27.1.

Paul

February 16, 2026

Case Studies

How DNS hijacks happen, and what to monitor first.

DNS Hijacks Hit Big Brands: What Your Team Misses

Recent DNS hijacks show how dangling records enable phishing. Build a DNS baseline, monitor changes, and respond before users are hit.

Paul

February 13, 2026

Best Practices

FTC reasonable security, why Web3SOC and MDR matter for DeFi.

Meeting the FTC’s "Reasonable Security" Bar

FTC guidance on reasonable security for DeFi, plus how Web3SOC and MDR create evidence, monitoring, and incident response readiness.

Paul

February 12, 2026

Best Practices

Pendle x Cantina security: audits and bounties for yield trading and Boros funding rates.

Scaling Security for Billions: The Pendle and Cantina Collaboration

Pendle and Cantina pair audits and $2.5M bounties to secure Pendle V2 and Boros, supporting onchain yield and funding rate markets.

Paul

February 12, 2026

Partners Spotlights

What to lock before mainnet: scope, audits, privilege paths, timelocks, caps, alerts, and drills to contain issues fast.

Before You Launch, DeFi Mainnet Security Checklist

A pre launch checklist for DeFi mainnet: audit deploy parity, privilege graphs, timelocks, caps, monitoring, incident response, and bounties.

Paul

February 11, 2026

Best Practices

Stablecoin peg mechanics, key risks, and what audits must test.

Auditing New Stablecoin Peg Designs, Risks and Tests

A security guide to modern stablecoin peg designs, LSD, RWA, algorithmic, and delta neutral models, plus oracle, governance, and cross chain risks.

Paul

February 10, 2026

Spearbit

ZK proof soundness risks and audit checks, Cantina x ZKsync.

Cantina x ZKsync: The 2026 Guide to Securing ZKPs

Cantina x ZKsync guide to ZKP soundness in 2026, covering transcript omissions, missing constraints, and range check failures.

Paul

February 10, 2026

Partners Spotlights

Why Concrete paired institutional yield vaults with continuous security: a $250K Cantina bounty and structured triage.

Cantina x Concrete: Securing Institutional Yield Infrastructure

Concrete’s ERC 4626 vaults near $1B TVL and a $250K Cantina bug bounty secure strategy modules, NAV updates, and withdrawals.

Paul

February 5, 2026

Partners Spotlights

Euler SEAL Safe Harbor, Cantina verified whitehat rescues.

Euler Adopts SEAL Safe Harbor, Verified by Cantina

Euler adopts SEAL Safe Harbor for live exploits. Cantina verifies eligible whitehats via KYC, and the program sets return and payout rules.

Paul

February 4, 2026

News

Cantina x Guardrail, runtime detection integrated into MDR.

Cantina x Guardrail: Runtime Detection Meets Managed Detection & Response

Cantina and Guardrail connect protocol aware runtime detection to MDR, pairing sub second monitoring with 24 7 triage, playbooks, and containment.

Paul

February 4, 2026

News

LSD security guide: peg, minting, oracles, slashing, governance, integrations.

Liquid Staking Derivative Security, Risks and Safeguards

Key LSD security risks, peg breaks, mint and redeem bugs, oracle manipulation, slashing, governance, and integration cascades, plus defenses teams should ship.

Paul

February 3, 2026

Spearbit

Kinetiq x Cantina on securing kHYPE liquid staking, StakeHub validator routing, and a $5M bug bounty on Hyperliquid.

Kinetiq x Cantina: Securing the Future of Liquid Staking on Hyperliquid

Kinetiq scaled kHYPE liquid staking on Hyperliquid, then opened a $5M Cantina bug bounty to harden validator routing, oracles, and accounting.

Paul

February 3, 2026

Partners Spotlights

Why DeFi gets hacked through Web2: SSRF, IDOR, XSS, RCE, and misconfigurations, and what to harden first.

Top 5 Web2 Vulnerabilities Threatening Your DeFi Organization

DeFi exploits often start off chain. Learn five Web2 weaknesses, SSRF, IDOR, RCE, XSS, and misconfigurations, and how to fix them.

Paul

February 2, 2026

Best Practices

Symbiotic bug bounty launch on Cantina, $500K top tier.

Symbiotic Arrives on Cantina: A $500k Bounty for Shared Security

Cantina and Symbiotic launch a bug bounty with a $500K top reward to stress test shared security and protect networks that rely on Symbiotic.

Paul

February 2, 2026

Partners Spotlights

A $1M OKX DEX onchain bug bounty on Cantina, securing production routing contracts with clear scope, severity tiers, and high signal review.

OKX Labs, OKX Wallet and Cantina Launch the OKX DEX Onchain Bug Bounty Program

OKX Labs and OKX Wallet launch a $1M onchain bug bounty on Cantina, focused on production mainnet smart contracts in the DEX routing stack.

Paul

January 30, 2026

Partners Spotlights

PancakeSwap Infinity security on BNB Chain, plus the $1M Cantina bug bounty.

PancakeSwap: Redefining Dominance and Security on BNB Chain

PancakeSwap reached about $2.3B TVL on BNB Chain in 2025, shipped Infinity, and launched a $1M Cantina bug bounty to secure it.

Paul

January 29, 2026

Partners Spotlights

How to secure provenance based systems on Cosmos: prevent nondeterminism, validate oracle and IBC inputs, harden validators, and keep records auditable.

Provenance Security Best Practices for Cosmos Ecosystems

Best practices for provenance based blockchains: deterministic execution, oracle and IBC validation, metadata integrity, validator hardening, and auditability.

Paul

January 29, 2026

Spearbit

Neobank security guide, cloud to custody to smart contracts.

Neobank Security Best Practices: Safeguarding Digital Banks in Fintech and DeFi

A practical neobank security guide: cloud, APIs, mobile apps, custody, smart contracts, insider risk, monitoring, and incident response.

Paul

January 28, 2026

Spearbit

How Web3SOC helps institutions evaluate DeFi and tokenization partners faster with consistent scoring across security operations financial and regulatory readiness

Web3SOC for TradFi: De-Risking Digital Asset Adoption

Web3SOC helps banks asset managers and fintechs compare digital asset partners with evidence across security, operations, financial, and regulatory aspects.

Paul

January 28, 2026

Ecosystem

Web3SOC is the institutional due diligence standard for DeFi.

Web3SOC: The Institutional Due Diligence Standard for DeFi

Web3SOC is a maturity framework for DeFi due diligence, scoring operational, financial, security, and regulatory readiness for institutions and teams.

Paul

January 27, 2026

News

Full stack security beyond contracts for high TVL protocols.

Security Beyond Contracts: Closing Web3 Blind Spots

High TVL protocols get hacked through scope gaps: upgrades, oracles, frontends, and ops. Learn Cantina’s full lifecycle security model.

Paul

January 26, 2026

Best Practices

Cantina x Rocket Pool Saturn audit, securing staking upgrades at $1.85B TVL.

Rocket Pool at 1.852B TVL: Auditing Saturn with Cantina

How Rocket Pool prepared Saturn with Cantina audits, hardening rETH accounting, minipools, and validator flows at $1.85B TVL.

Paul

January 23, 2026

Partners Spotlights

Why 2026 security is an arms race. AI scales scams and exploit attempts, and teams need faster, evidence based analysis to reduce time to fix.

AI vs Attackers, The Security Arms Race in 2026

AI accelerates phishing and exploit discovery. See why Web3 security is now an arms race, and how Cantina’s AI Code Analyzer helps teams keep up.

January 22, 2026

Cantina Blog

Web3SOC: The Institutional Due Diligence Standard for DeFi

Cantina Launches Free DNS Monitoring for Early Threat Signal

Cantina Achieves SOC 2 Type II Certification

Managed Detection and Response for Digital Asset Economy

Financial Security in 2026: AI, DORA, Web2, Web3

The End of the AppSec Black Box

Top 5 Cyber Threats for Banks in 2026

Zero Trust & Cloud Security for Financial Institutions

Deepfakes & Billion-Dollar Heists: The Lazarus Group Act

Solana Upgrade Patterns: Security Guide for 2026

Auditing Delta Neutral Stablecoins for Peg Safety

Lookalike Domains: Stop Brand Impersonation

Why Your "Vibe Coded" App is a Ticking Time Bomb

Cantina AI Code Analyzer Found a Provenance Bug

DNS Hijacks Hit Big Brands: What Your Team Misses

Meeting the FTC’s "Reasonable Security" Bar

Scaling Security for Billions: The Pendle and Cantina Collaboration

Before You Launch, DeFi Mainnet Security Checklist

Auditing New Stablecoin Peg Designs, Risks and Tests

Cantina x ZKsync: The 2026 Guide to Securing ZKPs

Cantina x Concrete: Securing Institutional Yield Infrastructure

Euler Adopts SEAL Safe Harbor, Verified by Cantina

Cantina x Guardrail: Runtime Detection Meets Managed Detection & Response

Liquid Staking Derivative Security, Risks and Safeguards

Kinetiq x Cantina: Securing the Future of Liquid Staking on Hyperliquid

Top 5 Web2 Vulnerabilities Threatening Your DeFi Organization

Symbiotic Arrives on Cantina: A $500k Bounty for Shared Security

OKX Labs, OKX Wallet and Cantina Launch the OKX DEX Onchain Bug Bounty Program

PancakeSwap: Redefining Dominance and Security on BNB Chain

Provenance Security Best Practices for Cosmos Ecosystems

Neobank Security Best Practices: Safeguarding Digital Banks in Fintech and DeFi

Web3SOC for TradFi: De-Risking Digital Asset Adoption

Web3SOC: The Institutional Due Diligence Standard for DeFi

Security Beyond Contracts: Closing Web3 Blind Spots

Rocket Pool at 1.852B TVL: Auditing Saturn with Cantina

AI vs Attackers, The Security Arms Race in 2026