China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center just accused the United States of carrying out the 2020 LuBian Bitcoin exploit. However, Western research ties the event to a wallet random-number flaw and does not name a state actor. Open-source forensics on the LuBian drain The core facts of the episode are now well documented across […]
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Álvaro Romillo, also known as CryptoSpain, has also reportedly admitted to funding the campaign of a far-right MEP with a €100,000 euro cash donation.
The alleged Ponzi scheme attracted over 3,000 victims by offering guaranteed returns on contracts tied to various assets.
Russian entrepreneur Roman Novak, a convicted crypto fraudster, and his wife Anna were abducted and found murdered in the United Arab Emirates, after a plot linked to ransom demands and digital assets went awry. Roman Novak was well known across St. Petersburg for defrauding investors out of millions from his various crypto ventures. After being […]
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Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a quarter-million dollar fine on Thursday.
Imagine the world’s internet backbone collapsing in a day. Whether it’s due to human error, a catastrophic software bug, a rogue computer virus, or outright kinetic warfare, what happens to Bitcoin if the physical internet exchange hubs that connect the world suddenly go dark? If Frankfurt, London, Virginia, Singapore, and Marseille were to go offline […]
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The case is the largest financial fraud in Hong Kong's history, with Interpol issuing red notices for three fugitives.
Arguments made by former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyer in a bid to get a new trial may not have been convincing, Sam Enzer says.
Jailed former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is back in court as he looks to get a redo after being found guilty on multiple fraud charges.
Prosecutors alleged that Rodriguez and Lonergan operated a service that helped launder at least $237 million in criminal proceeds.
On Oct. 31, 2025, the Radiant exploiter transferred approximately 5,411.8 ETH to Tornado Cash, a move worth roughly $20.7 million. Nine days earlier, the same cluster had moved approximately 2,834.6 ETH, equivalent to $10.8 million, after staging funds across chains and through swaps before the mixer. Neither burst looked hurried. Both looked like a careful […]
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North Korea-linked hackers stole more than $2 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, surpassing every prior year on record, while global law enforcement recovered $439 million and arrested hundreds of money launderers across 40 countries in a single four-month operation. The collision of record state-sponsored heists and coordinated multilateral enforcement raises a sharper question than whether […]
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The collapse of Thodex left 400,000 users with losses of up to $2.5 billion, according to estimates from the time, one of crypto's largest rug pulls.
Sam Bankman-Fried is again challenging the core narrative of his downfall: that FTX was insolvent when it collapsed in November 2022. In a 15-page report written from prison and dated Sept. 30, the convicted founder claimed the exchange “was never insolvent” but merely trapped in a “liquidity crisis” after customers pulled $5 billion in two […]
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Bithumb led with 12.4 billion won, followed by Upbit with 366 million won. Smaller amounts moved through Coinone and Korbit, while Gopax reported no activity.
Crypto is nothing if not cyclical. Every cycle births icons, wrecks them, and sometimes resurrects them. What was once written off as dead can roar back to life with a vengeance, reshaped by regulation, technology, or sheer market gravity. From courtrooms to codebases, from bankrupt exchanges to blockchains that refused to quit, the industry’s best […]
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Canada's FINTRAC said the exchange failed to report thousands of high-risk crypto transactions tied to darknet markets and Iranian transfers.
The accused is said to have forced people to work in Cambodian compounds part of large-scale crypto scam network.
The Ethereum Foundation and Keyring are raising a legal defense fund for Tornado Cash developers Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev.
Early bitcoin investor Roger Ver reached a "tentative agreement" with the U.S. Justice Department, according to reporting from NYT.
Will the UK sell 61,000 BTC, or pay victims the gains? The United Kingdom is holding 61,000 Bitcoin worth roughly $7.2 billion after pleading guilty to fraud, and a January High Court test will determine who will capture the upside from assets seized in 2018. Zhimin Qian, also known as Yadi Zhang, pleaded guilty on […]
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Qian defrauded more than 128,000 victims in China between 2014 and 2017, subsequently storing her spoils in BTC and fleeing to the U.K
NYDFS lead Adrienne Harris, who has been pivotal in cryptocurrency regulation in the state, is stepping down.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The 2025 Typologies Report outlines laundering tactics, mule account patterns and cross-chain transfers.
Korean actor Hwang Jung-eum was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for four years, for embezzling $3 million to invest in crypto.
Two brothers who held a family for nine hours at gunpoint and stole $8 million in cryptocurrency were charged with kidnapping on Thursday.
X discovered a "bribery network" of users who have allegedly been "involved in crypto scams" and paid middlemen to attempt to bribe employees.
Palafox falsely claimed that PGI was engaged in high-volume bitcoin trading, defrauding over 90,000 investors worldwide.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.