Former CFO Pleads Guilty: Funds Used To Trade Crypto & Meme Stocks
With the prolonged bear market in crypto ongoing, one will think most people should be losing money. While that is ...
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How Blockchain Businesses And Crypto Companies Can Reduce Cyberthreats
Bitcoin and Ethereum are booming, altcoins are surging, and other crypto categories like DeFi and NFTs have taken off like ...
How Bitcoin And Crypto Exchange KYC Could Be The Next Ledger Leak
A leak of crypto cold storage wallet manufacturer Ledger's customer database has put over a quarter of a million Bitcoin ...
Justice Department AG Claims US Gov, IRS Has Tools To Track Bitcoin Users
The United States has just revealed a seizure of over $2 million in Bitcoin said to be meant for financing ...
Not Just For Selfies: Twitter Crypto Scam And How Social Media Transfers Value
This week, the popular social platform Twitter was hacked to promote a scam where $120,000 in Bitcoin was stolen. Similar ...
Meet The Malware That Uses Bitcoin’s Blockchain To Update Its Army of Bots
An advanced malware is utilizing messages hidden within Bitcoin's blockchain transactions. These messages send signals to a botnet army ready ...
Australian Woman Accused of Laundering $5M in Bitcoin Through Unregistered Exchange
In a first for the country, an Australian woman has been charged with illegally operating an unregistered Bitcoin exchange. She ...
Michael Jordan of Crypto Trading Scams MLB Players Out of Millions
A new court filing reveals that the self-proclaimed Michael Jordan of crypto trading has been charged with scamming over 100 ...
Hawaiian Woman Invests 401K Into Crypto Mining Ponzi Scheme, Hit With Restraining Order
A woman based in the United States island-state of Hawaii has lost nearly half of her entire life savings, in ...
Crypto-Demanding Cybercriminals Ramp Up Ransomware Threat With Data Exposure
Cybercrime is growing at an exponential rate, and showing zero signs of slowing down or stopping in the near future. ...
Never Disclose Crypto Holdings: Bitcoin Millionaire Has Run in With Shotgun
Once an individual gets started in investing or trading crypto assets like Bitcoin, they should very early on in their ...
North Korea’s Crypto Cyber Attacks May Further Fuel US Fear of Bitcoin
The biggest topic of discussion around the crypto space in recent weeks has been the United States and the sudden ...
United States Regulators Begin Crack Down on Crypto and Bitcoin Crime
Following the announcement of Facebook Libra - a crypto project aimed to replace the US dollar and other fiat currencies, ...
Yes, Criminals Use Bitcoin: They Also Use Cars, Cash, Mobile Phones, and the Web…
In the ten years of Bitcoin's existence much has been made about its supposed utility for criminals by the mainstream ...
Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacking Jumped 250% YTD, Says Report
A report on cryptocurrency theft published by cyber security firm CipherTrace found that hacking of exchanges and trading platforms has ...
International AML Task Force to Close “Gaps” Created by Virtual Currencies
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental organization founded in 1989 on the initiative of the G7 to combat ...
Phone Numbers Becoming Backdoor to Crypto Accounts
Hackers have discovered that the easiest and most direct way to steal cryptocurrency is to first steal phone numbers. Hijacked ...
Australian Man Charged With Stealing $110,000 Worth of Bitcoin
Since bitcoin has gained enormous value, it's become a target for criminals, no doubt. Which is why it probably comes ...
Europol Calls For Increased Powers For Police to Identify Bitcoin-Related Money Laundering
Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency that deals with criminal intelligence is calling for police to be given additional ...
