About $31.69M in combined bridge losses and B²'s July 22 staking suspension reveal three distinct control failures.
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A 15-page federal criminal complaint details how investigators combined a Bitcoin trail with Google cookies, phone records, and more than 500 Uber Eats deliveries to identify Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins as the alleged financier and marketer of a Steam malware campaign. A later search uncovered a Monero seed phrase tied to roughly $382,000 in cumulative […]
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Zilliqa has suspended native transactions after discovering that roughly five affected signatures from the same private key may provide enough information to reconstruct that key, creating a recovery problem that an ordinary transfer cannot safely solve. The vulnerability is confined to Schnorr signatures generated for native, non-EVM transactions through the Zilliqa Ledger app, according to […]
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CertiK recorded roughly $124.1 million in losses and ransom demands in H1 2026, a measure of exposure rather than criminal profit.
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The filings show an asset-first strategy, but restraint, forfeiture and victim repayment remain separate stages.
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CertiK recommends limiting public information that connects a person’s identity, location or routine to their crypto holdings.
The cases add to more than $800 million that authorities say a dedicated federal scam task force has recovered.
More than 380 investors supplied the funds, while court approval, penalties and any recovery remain unresolved.
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Prosecutors say eight entities were used as investor funds moved through financial institutions and crypto exchanges, with new money repaying earlier investors.
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The offence took effect July 17 without naming crypto, forcing UK-linked firms to reconstruct what they knew and when.
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Future-dated reports allegedly cleared an authorized signer check, while Ostium has yet to publish final loss accounting or a postmortem.
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DOJ indicted Sioux Falls crypto investor Benjamin Paul Wiener on 29 counts over an alleged $20 million fraud, with a trial set for Sept. 15.
The pair allegedly shipped over 500 drug parcels over a seven-month period and laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars through crypto.
A former LASD deputy was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for lying about an Adam Iza extortion incident.
The $722 million alleged scheme total is separate from recovery, while final terms and a court filing remain unresolved.
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The Thailand case shows how cross-chain token swaps can complicate tracing across services, assets and borders.
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DOJ’s account separates a forfeiture order from the unresolved question of who could authorize a transfer.
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FBI and IC3 data show how online coercion can end at a kiosk before anyone can stop the transfer.
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The operation uncovered a crypto laundering network using cross-chain swaps to obscure funds, with one wallet processing $122.5M in 10 months.
The CFTC charged a NC man and his company after the agency said he swindled about 60 people out of $14 million in a commodity pool.
Blockaid estimated about $6 million drained as Summer.fi paused Lazy Summer vaults and investigated the cause.
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France’s response shows why visible crypto wealth now demands offline threat planning, data controls, and faster law-enforcement coordination.
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The 131-wallet freeze exposes how public-chain intelligence and issuer controls are becoming real-time enforcement infrastructure.
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A man pleaded guilty to fraud charges after prosecutors said he tricked people into the promise of making returns in crypto liquidity pools.
The businessman known as Miles Guo, who pushed the fraudulent H-Coin project and had close ties to Steve Bannon, was finally sentenced after his 2024 conviction.
"47 Ronin" director Carl Rinsch got 30 months in prison for stealing $11M meant for a Netflix show, spent on crypto and Rolls-Royces.
Guo was arrested in 2023 for orchestrating a more than $1 billion fraud conspiracy involving cryptocurrency.
The SEC resolved its case against NanoBit after alleging the crypto platform lied to investors and stole their money.
Officials from the White House are said to be sitting down with law enforcement representatives who have objected to illicit-finance portions of the bill.
Chinese businessman Wang Yicheng was accused of involvement in illegal crypto mining operations that used $28 million worth of electricity.