Crypto scams and fraud — rug pulls, phishing, fake airdrops, and address-poisoning attacks.
The Alliance to End Human Trafficking argues a specific section would make it harder to oversee illicit activity, framing the bill as a moral as well as a regulatory question.
Noman Saleem gets over a year in prison and three years of supervised release for running bogus Telegram handles impersonating popular crypto influencers.
The action takes a server offline, not a company, but it pulls a known node from a FinCEN-flagged laundering network that processed scam and hack proceeds on chain.
The deal closes a class action over disclosure gaps in the 2023 all-stock merger, specifically energy and internet-related risks at the King Mountain Texas mining joint venture USBTC held pre-deal.
The settlement is small relative to Hut 8's 640% twelve-month share gain, but the litigation underscores how short-seller reports can drive lasting securities exposure for miners that have since…
Three wallets with a perfect-or-near-perfect hit rate on the same event funneled every dollar to the same Binance deposit address before going dark.
Binance's founder credits Hyperliquid for carving out a no-KYC derivatives niche he says Binance can't enter, but the platform's small-team concentration is a structural risk worth flagging.
The arrest is small in headline terms, but Hu Xiaowei was a senior figure in a network the US Treasury says ran pig-butchering scams at industrial scale across Asia, with links to crypto laundering.
A WSJ investigation says the prediction market paid influencers through a firm called Virality to stage fake payout videos, and used mirror sites to simulate wins that never happened on the real…
Microsoft's threat team linked the campaign to a hacking group it tracks as CryptoBandits, which uses poisoned USB sticks to seed malware that rewrites browser extensions for wallet theft.
The promotion was off-platform by design — staged on near-identical lookalike pages — so the trades were never real bets and never touched Polymarket's settlement engine, leaving the question of…
The fraud piggy-backed on the ZKsync brand to deceive global crypto users, and on-chain tracing tied 120+ transactions to U.S.-sanctioned entities.
The attack exploited automated approval logic rather than a smart-contract bug — a reminder that the infrastructure built to extract MEV is itself becoming a high-value target.
Kaspersky traces thousands of malicious Steam Workshop downloads posing as animated wallpapers — the payload is Lumma and Vidar infostealers that drain browser data, logins and wallet seed phrases.
The statement is enforcement signalling rather than a new case, but it lands as the FBI publicly re-elevates crypto fraud as a priority under a new director.
The drawdown is the easy headline; the more interesting signal is the conviction — a KOL whose on-chain net worth has fallen from $67M to $11M hasn't trimmed a single position.
The Garcia brothers held a Minnesota family at gunpoint for over eight hours to steal more than $8M in crypto — now they face up to 20 years each and full restitution.
The peg slippage is the macro signal: even a microcap preferred-like instrument from a balance-sheet BTC proxy is repricing risk-off, while the clipper campaign is the on-device reminder that…
CryptoBandits shows a quiet escalation: clipboard hijacking plus live address-swapping during a copy-paste transfer turns a single USB plug-in into a full wallet drain, with Tor-based exfiltration to…
The threat spreads offline via USB and .lnk shortcuts, then runs bundled Tor to reach a hidden-service C2 — clipboard swap plus seed-phrase theft is the actual loss vector, not just an address swap.
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