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The crypto industry is on track to witness record-breaking thefts in 2025, with over $2.17 billion already stolen from crypto services as of mid-July, according to a new report from Chainalysis. This figure surpasses the total amount stolen in all of 2024 and suggests a troubling upward trend in digital asset crime. A significant portion […]
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Valued at just £60,000 ($77,400) at the time of the theft in 2017, the bitcoin is now worth around £4.4 million ($5.9 million).

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Prosecutors claim the woman was suffering from financial difficulties and had transferred more than $90,000 to crypto platforms in 12 months.

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Truglia was sentenced to 18 months in prison in December 2022 for a $20 million crypto scam involving an illicit SIM card swap.

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Greek authorities carried out the country’s first-ever crypto seizure after tracing funds linked to the record-breaking $1.4 billion hack of crypto exchange Bybit earlier this year. The Hellenic Anti-Money Laundering Authority issued a freezing order on a suspect wallet following a months-long investigation aided by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. The operation targeted funds allegedly stolen […]
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While a post-mortem of the attack has yet to occur, the hacker appears to have drained funds out of GMX's GLP liquidity pool.

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New Zealand’s Ministry of Justice is set to ban crypto ATMs as part of a sweeping overhaul of the country’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CFT) framework. The move forms part of a broader strategy to tighten regulations around financial crime while reducing compliance burdens for legitimate businesses. In a statement released on July 9, […]
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Prosecutors charged two men for their roles in operating a scheme that led to $650 million being stolen and "vanishing" funds into crypto.

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Authorities in the Chinese city of Shenzhen have warned residents about fraudulent investment schemes tied to digital assets and stablecoins. In a statement published on July 7, the city’s Office of the Municipal Task Force for Preventing and Combating Illegal Financial Activities cautioned against deceptive platforms posing as legitimate crypto investment opportunities. According to the […]
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Industry partners like Coinbase and Tether have assisted in large-scale recoveries, including $225 million in USDT tied to romance-investment scams

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Much of the $400 million in recovered funds sit on a single cold-storage wallet, according to the Bloomberg report.

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Hackers siphoned about R$800 million ($140 million) from six reserve accounts connected to Brazil’s central bank after breaching São Paulo-based software vendor C&M Software on June 30, according to blockchain investigator ZachXBT and reports from local news outlets. Police said C&M employee João Nazareno Roque sold his corporate login for R$15,000 ($2,770) and later developed […]
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The DOJ alleges that scammers posed as the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee to defraud a donor of a total $250,300 in cryptocurrency.

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An on-chain investigation has revealed that North Korea IT workers posing as foreign developers have earned nearly $17 million from crypto startups and blockchain companies this year. The findings, revealed by prominent blockchain investigator ZachXBT, show that these individuals have successfully integrated into dozens of crypto projects by concealing their identities and locations. According to […]
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In one case, four North Korean nationals allegedly stole over $900,000 in crypto from two firms and laundered it through Tornado Cash.

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The investigation was supported by Europol, as well as police forces from Estonia, France and the U.S.

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Projects tied to Pepe meme creator Matt Furie and the NFT studio ChainSaw lost roughly $1 million to contract takeover exploits last week, according to on-chain investigator ZachXBT. On June 27, ZachXBT reported transaction records showing that the attacker seized control of the “Replicandy” contract at 4:25 a.m. UTC on June 18 by transferring ownership […]
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Golden was first charged with financial crimes related to running EmpowerCoin, ECoinPlus, and Jet-Coin in March 2022.

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The first half of 2025 exposed deep vulnerabilities in the crypto industry, with hackers stealing over $2.1 billion across 75 separate incidents. This marks a 10% increase from the previous H1 record of $2 billion in 2022 and nearly matches the full-year figure for 2024, which closed at $2.2 billion, according to a report from […]
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"The arrest of IntelBroker shows just how far law enforcement has come in the crypto space," TRM Lab's Ari Redbord told The Block. 

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Mass adoption of stablecoins will amplify illicit finance risks, particularly when it is handled unevenly across difference jurisdictions, the FATF said

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Exchange says its blockchain sleuthing mapped 130 victim wallets and guided agents to a historic “pig-butchering” bust from 18 June forfeiture. Coinbase has gone public with its behind-the-scenes work on the U.S. Secret Service’s $225.3 million USDT seizure, providing a fresh layer of detail that was absent when the forfeiture was first announced a week […]
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Federal authorities called the seizure "the largest cryptocurrency seizure in U.S. Secret Service history."

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Telegram-based dark markets rapidly filled the gap left by Huione Guarantee after the $27 billion marketplace disappeared on May 13, according to a June 23 Elliptic report. Elliptic noted that Telegram banned thousands of Huione Guarantee channels and usernames once researchers traced billions of USDT-denominated sales to pig-butchering scams. However, data shows that merchants immediately […]
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.

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The teen reportedly received $200,000 from a social engineering theft while out on bond, then gambled it all away nine minutes later.

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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.

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A new wave of cyberattacks shows the DPRK is exploiting the crypto industry’s recruitment funnel, using fake LinkedIn job offers, deep‑fake Zoom calls, and backdoored interview files to access Web3 developers’ wallets and repositories. With seasoned developer talent already thinning and open‑source protocols increasingly reliant on individual contributors, the stakes have never been higher. North […]
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North Korea’s hackers has reportedly stolen nearly $2 billion from centralized crypto exchanges over the past year. Blockchain security researcher Tay Monahan attributes a significant portion of those funds, around $1.8 billion, to a series of major hacks targeting centralized crypto trading platforms like Bybit, DMM Bitcoin, WazirX, Phemex, and BingX. Despite setbacks such as […]
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More than 300 victims identified in a scheme that resulted in more than $1 million in losses, the New York officials said.