Over $10 Billion Has Been Lost To DeFi Exploits In 2021
Decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms have been the target of criminal attacks this year. Investors in the blockchain-based form of finance have ...
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Bitcoin Ponzi Busted: Nevada Firm Charged With $11 Million Crypto Fraud
Circle Society, Corp., and its owner, David Gilbert Saffron, have been charged with fraud relating to an Bitcoin and crypto ...
Malta Financial Watchdog Issues Warning Against Crypto Trading Platform
The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has issued a warning regarding an online crypto trading platform that has untruthfully claimed ...
Australian Woman Arrested Over Theft of AU$450,000 Worth of XRP
A 23-year-old Australian woman has been arrested over the alleged theft of AU$450,000 worth of XRP tokens following a 10-month ...
Crypto Community Riled at Russian Exchange’s Coin Pump Scheme
The crypto market has just entered into another tough period when a lot of coins started losing its value. In ...
US Congress Holding Roundtable With Industry Insiders to Draft Growth Promoting Regulations
Facing a murky regulatory landscape in the U.S., representative Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, is hosting a roundtable Tuesday that includes representatives ...
Hackers Find Goldmine by Cryptojacking Indian Government Websites
As the Indian government further complicates their stance on whether or not citizens should be allowed to trade and own ...
Cryptocurrency-Targeting Malware Spreads via Facebook Messenger
A malicious Chrome extension discovered by Kaspersky Labs in August 2017 which targets cryptocurrency trading platforms has resurfaced with a ...
Telegram Copycat Company Exposed as Fraud
Someone has registered a company in the UK that has plagiarised the global instant messaging app Telegram's ICO project name. ...
JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon Slams Bitcoin As “Fraud”
Speaking at an investor conference in New York on Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon blasted ...
UK Businessman behind Bitcoin Store Charged with Securities Fraud
An English businessman, Renwick Haddow has been charged by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission for securities fraud. According ...
Amateur Bitcoin Investors Defrauded by Criminals in India
India is an emerging Bitcoin market. As more people get to know about the cryptocurrency, the target audience for scammers ...
Do Binary Options Scams still Exist?
Just like in life, scammers and fraudsters in binary options industry are naturally attracted to anywhere money is. Binary options, ...
Explosive Attacks Against European Bank ATMs Rises By 80%
Bank ATMs have always been a valuable target for criminals. In most cases, they would use malware to steal card ...
Craig Wright Incident Proves Blockchain Can Detect Frauds
Most of us know about the recent incidents revolving around Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist, who claimed that he ...
Lawsuit Against Xapo’s Founder Could Prove to be Fatal For the BTC Co
According to Fortune, identity theft protection company LifeLock has filed a lawsuit against the Zurich-based Bitcoin cold storage vault provider ...
Crypto Exchange HKCex Investigated After Customer He’s Lost HK$67,000
Police in Hong Kong are reportedly investigating the disappearance of many thousands of (Hong Kong) dollars at the HKCex exchange, ...
Was Bitcoin's All-Time High a Mt. Gox Fabrication?
In the months following the collapse of Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, the bitcoin community is still struggling to understand what brought ...
