Crypto scams and fraud — rug pulls, phishing, fake airdrops, and address-poisoning attacks.
Olena Oblamska landed in a Portland federal court after a Thailand extradition; three Russian co-defendants, including the alleged ringleader, remain at large.
The $2M figure is small; the playbook — dormant darknet wallets rotated into physical gold shipped across borders — is what compliance and law-enforcement trackers will read.
The first joint operation of its kind signals how seriously three governments now treat pig-butchering fraud — a category that has funneled billions into illicit crypto rails over the past three…
A7, a ruble-pegged token pitched at sanctioned Russian trade, is now positioning for life after the sanctions regime itself — a hedge that says as much about the project's durability as about the…
Myanmar's government has proposed introducing the death penalty for perpetrators of major cyber scam offences, marking…
If enacted, the legislation would put Myanmar among the harshest jurisdictions worldwide for fraud tied to forced-labour compounds — the compounds themselves largely feed off cross-border crypto…
The threat isn't a new wallet-drainer contract — it's impersonators using AI-generated video and audio of real Ripple executives to convince users to hand over seeds.
The chart of a meme-coin loss compressed into one hour — half a million dollars of FOMO flow in, one-fifth of it back out, and the catalyst tweet gone.
The dev had already cashed out roughly $611K in $SOL before the post was scrubbed; 39.52% of supply was concentrated in ten wallets funded by 20 $SOL of seed capital.
The bounty escalates a widening campaign by the onchain sleuth against small-cap projects he says used centralised venues to extract retail — and it puts pressure on Bitget, Bybit, Binance and OKX to…
The on-chain investigator's move turns a DM dispute into a public evidence-gathering campaign against a mid-cap token whose founder has stayed silent.
The 6.5-year sentence lands against a backdrop of record crypto-fraud losses — $11.3B last year per the FBI — and a wave of federal task-force arrests of the operators behind the schemes.
More than half of this year's IDO tokens are down 99% or worse, and the lone survivor is barely positive — a survival rate that turns initial DEX offerings into a near-pure-lottery allocation.
DSJ Exchange / BG Wealth Sharing drew over $150M before going offline; $41.5M has already been frozen after cooperation between Tether, Binance, OKX and U.S. law enforcement.
The accusation from one of crypto's most-watched on-chain investigators puts a top DEX by volume in the crosshairs — and signals a wider enforcement net may be forming.
A social post turned into a payment instruction: obfuscated text passed through Grok into Bankrbot, which executed a token transfer from an X-issued agent wallet — exposing how model output can…
The HKMA's April 28 alert exposes a structural gap between bank-name legitimacy and on-chain verification — and one that grows wider as more licensed issuers enter the market.
The partnership let USD1 operate on a network whose key figures were sanctioned over Prince Group scam compounds — and federal investigators are now circling WLF's own operators.
Pavel Durov's count — 41 attacks in 3.5 months — is the first public estimate tying the wave of France's physical crypto attacks to leaked government tax data.
Evan Tangeman has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for his involvement in a large-scale cryptocurrency…
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