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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.
If confirmed, the rare domestic enforcement action against Pyongyang's financial-crime apparatus signals a tactical recalibration, not a policy turn, on overseas crypto theft.
Frequency slowed in Q2 but first-half exposure surged more than 1,000% year-on-year, with France and Western Europe absorbing most of the incidents.
The DOJ's newest darknet-fentanyl case hits a small ring, but it keeps crypto rails squarely inside the trafficking conversation Washington is already using to pressure exchanges and mixers.
Scott Allen Simpkins admitted lying to federal investigators about a 2021 incident in which crypto figure Adam Iza pressured a victim into a $25,000 transfer.
The complaint targets a federal inmate accused of siphoning forfeited digital assets through exchanges and mixing services, layering a theft case on top of an existing sentence.
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.
Congress is moving to rebuild a federal crypto crime task force, months after the Department of Justice dismantled its…
A US criminal case built around a Bitcoin-funded Lamborghini has put physical attacks on crypto holders back in the courtroom, as cumulative losses from wrench attacks top $100M this year.
Thirty machines on a clandestine grid line pulled 45 kW — about $6,400 a month in avoided electricity costs — turning territorial control and free power into portable digital value for Comando…
Evan Tangeman has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for his involvement in a large-scale cryptocurrency…
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