South Korean prosecutors seek 20 years for Delio CEO over $168.8 million embezzlement from 2,800 crypto deposit users.
Dubai police arrested 275 individuals, while Thai authorities arrested one suspect allegedly involved in crypto scams.
A US court sentenced Maximilien de Hoop Cartier to 8 years for operating an unlicensed crypto exchange that laundered more than $470 million.
The criminal built trust with her targets and solicited bitcoin investments under false pretenses, according to the DOJ.
Acting AG Blanche offered some reassurance to software developers as the Justice Department continues its case against Roman Storm.
The European Union’s latest Russia sanctions package, its twentieth so far, brings crypto settlement squarely into an already fractured geopolitical spotlight. Adopted on April 23, the package adds 120 new listings and rolls out financial measures that touch just about every corner of Russia’s crypto scene. That includes service providers, decentralized trading platforms, ruble-backed tokens, […]
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French authorities urged crypto holders to remain vigilant and avoid extensive exposure on social media that could make them targets.
UK authorities have carried out their first coordinated operation against suspected illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading, sending a clear and simple message to the market: once a person turns crypto dealing into a business, the state expects names, checks, records, and accountability. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it worked with police and tax officials to […]
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Federal prosecutors have charged Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an active-duty U.S. Army soldier who the indictment says has served as a U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant, with allegedly using classified information about a military operation to make more than $400,000 in prediction-market profits. After months of online discourse around suspected insider trading on Polymarket and Kalshi, […]
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The DOJ arrested a U.S. Army soldier accused of using confidential information to place bets on the prediction market Polymarket.
The DOJ arrested a U.S. Army soldier accused of using confidential information to place bets on the prediction market Polymarket.
Pasternak is also facing a civil class-action lawsuit where investors of Believe's native token are accusing him of orchestrating a rug pull.
SBF withdrew his motion for a new trial for now in a letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan, adding that he didn't think he would get a "fair hearing."
Two armed men forced a French family to transfer $820,000 in crypto during a home invasion, local media reported.
Apple is heading into its biggest leadership transition in years, just as scrutiny is mounting over the security of its App Store and the rise of crypto theft on iPhones. On April 20, the company revealed that John Ternus, its senior vice president of hardware engineering, will succeed Tim Cook as chief executive officer by […]
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North Korea's Lazarus Group has a new attack vector that allows it to exploit an apparently routine business call as a gateway into a target's systems.
NIST finalized its first three post-quantum cryptography standards in August 2024 and told organizations to begin migrating immediately, with a 2035 deadline to deprecate quantum-vulnerable public-key algorithms from its guidelines. Coinbase's advisory board reached the same conclusion in a recent report, arguing that blockchains, wallet providers, exchanges, and custodians should prepare before urgency arrives, and […]
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Sanmar Herald’s plea over the radio captured the new reality in Hormuz, fake crypto clearance, real gunfire The latest geopolitical risk to crypto from the Strait of Hormuz has come via radio from a tanker under fire. “Sepah Navy, Sepah Navy, this is Motor Vessel, Sanmar Herald. You gave me clearance to go. My name, […]
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Marisks, a maritime risk company, alerted ships stranded by the Hormuz blockade to scammers posing as Iranian authorities asking for bitcoin or USDT.
The aftershocks of the Saturday's KelpDAO hack are spreading through stablecoin markets in ways that were not immediately obvious.
Bitfinex plans to use the returned coins to redeem all Recovery Right Tokens and devote at least 80 percent of remaining net proceeds to repurchasing and burning its UNUS SED LEO token.
A Texas man was sentenced to over two decades in prison after prosecutors said he scammed investors of more than $20 million.
Kraken says it is being extorted by a criminal group threatening to release internal material after two support staff members improperly accessed limited customer data. In a security update published by chief security officer Nick Percoco on X, the crypto exchange said it identified two cases of inappropriate access to client support data, revoked access, […]
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DOJ opened a compensation process for OneCoin victims, offering more than $40 million from the $4 billion fraud.
The firm said a criminal group is attempting to extort it over limited insider-related data access incidents affecting about 2,000 accounts. Kraken says it will not pay and is working with law enforcement.
Garrett Dutton, also known as G. Love, lost 5.9 BTC after entering his seed phrase in an imposter Ledger app.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell convened an urgent meeting with Wall Street leaders this week, bypassing the routine briefing cadence and pulling bank CEOs into a direct conversation about AI-driven cyber risk. Reports noted that the meeting aimed to ensure banks understood the risks posed by Mythos and similar models and […]
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The U.S. government currently holds roughly 328,000 bitcoins, worth more than $22 billion at current prices, among other crypto assets.
Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm and the Department of Justice faced off in court on Thursday in Manhattan.
The U.S. Treasury's sanctions agency and its financial crimes bureau released a joint rule proposal for stablecoin issuers.