Chainalysis and South Korean police expand crypto crime training, certification and blockchain tracing as North Korean theft risks increase.
Humanity Protocol has revealed that a compromised employee laptop enabled attackers to obtain control of bridge administration systems across Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain, resulting in the theft and minting of more than $36 million worth of H tokens. According…
A Chinese court jailed a man for 10 years and nine months after he memorized a seed phrase, stole 107 Bitcoin and took 660,000 yuan in cash.
California man gets 78 months in prison for a $250M crypto theft ring that used social engineering, laundering and hardware wallet raids.
A crypto whale sued Coinbase, claiming it froze DAI tied to a 2024 phishing theft but refused to return traceable funds in U.S. court case.
The most urgent crypto scam news on Capitol Hill arrived Tuesday as the House Homeland Security Committee held a joint subcommittee hearing on how transnational criminal organizations use crypto fraud, online scams, and digital extortion to steal from Americans. Crypto…
North Korean-linked operators have spent years quietly integrating into crypto firms and DeFi teams, raising fresh concerns about insider risk after a string of high-value exploits tied to the country’s cyber apparatus. Security researcher and MetaMask developer Taylor Monahan said…
Elon Musk’s X is rolling out a security feature that will automatically lock any account that mentions cryptocurrency for the first time — requiring additional verification before posting resumes — a direct response to a wave of account hijacking campaigns…
U.S. prosecutors have moved forward with charges against a Maryland resident accused of carrying out two exploits that drained more than $54 million from the decentralized finance platform Uranium Finance. Court filings unsealed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the…
A UK resident has accused his estranged wife of stealing over 2,323 Bitcoin from a Trezor hardware wallet, allegedly using a security camera to capture his seed phrase and wallet access codes. A court judgment filed in the UK’s High…
French authorities have arrested multiple suspects in connection with the kidnapping of a magistrate and her mother in a case prosecutors say involved a cryptocurrency ransom plot. Crypto kidnapping sparks nationwide police operation in France The Lyon public prosecutor’s office…
Two routine copy-and-paste actions erased $62 million in crypto over December and January, exposing how basic wallet habits are becoming one of Ethereum’s biggest security risks. ScamSniffer said in a post on X on Feb. 8 that one victim lost…
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