Deepfake Crypto Scam Losses Jump 263% in 2026: TRM
The dollar figure is the surface read. The structural shift is that the breach now happens before any signature, on the human moment of approval, not inside the smart contract.
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The dollar figure is the surface read. The structural shift is that the breach now happens before any signature, on the human moment of approval, not inside the smart contract.
The mistake is absurd, but the pattern isn't: a 2024 French tax-office breach turned crypto holders into fixed targets. Chainalysis counts at least 30 wrench attacks in France in H1 2026 alone.
Starknet's strkBTC launch puts the tradeoff in focus: shielding BTC can mean accepting new trust assumptions in wrappers, sidechains or e-cash systems.
Pyongyang's own intelligence agency detained former military hackers accused of raiding state banks and cashing out through cross-border OTC desks, an unusual insider crackdown inside a regime that…
The flow is small relative to on-chain volumes but it shows how crypto rails absorb payment gaps when card networks and banks step back from a category.
Chainalysis puts AI-assisted scam revenue at 4.5x non-AI operations; the FBI logged $20.9B in 2025 cybercrime losses with crypto the top payment rail.
The action follows OFAC's designation of 134 crypto addresses tied to ISIS-Khorasan, including 131 TRON addresses that Chainalysis says moved more than $2.28M since 2023.
The proposed ontology tries to put formal definitions around what an investigator means by a 'cluster' of addresses, drawing on the Sterlingov trial as proof the methodology can hold up in court.
Chainalysis puts the off-label peptide trade past a $100M annual run rate — and the professionalized vendor tier is settling on stablecoin rails to hedge crypto-price risk.
Chainalysis projects stablecoin settlement volumes could hit $719 trillion by 2035 under a base-case scenario, with an…
Polymarket has tapped Chainalysis to layer Wall Street-calibre compliance and monitoring infrastructure onto its…