The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has launched an investigation into a large-scale cryptocurrency scam in which fraudsters impersonated Binance representatives to defraud Australians. In a joint statement, the AFP, the National Anti-Scam Centre (NASC), and Binance Australia revealed that...
Crypto derivatives trading platform Deribit has issued a warning about a growing wave of recruitment scams targeting crypto professionals. In a March 19 post on X, the platform’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Anthony Sweeney, revealed that scammers are...
Microsoft has identified a new remote access trojan (RAT) to steal cryptocurrency from users by targeting 20 different wallet extensions on Google Chrome. In a blog post published on March 17, Microsoft’s Incident Response Team revealed that it had...
Argentine prosecutors have requested an Interpol Red Notice for Hayden Davis, the creator of the controversial LIBRA memecoin, amid allegations of fraud and market manipulation. According to multiple local news sources, Gregorio Dalbón, a prosecuting attorney in the case...
Fresh evidence has surfaced, exposing the elaborate scheme of a South Korean civil servant who embezzled 497.16 million Korean won (equivalent to $342,000) in public funds. The extent of the embezzlement was revealed in a Board of Audit and...
A Russian-linked hacking group, Dark Storm, has claimed responsibility for a massive cyberattack that disrupted X (formerly Twitter) on March 10, rendering the platform inaccessible to thousands of users before services were quickly restored. Cybersecurity firm SpyoSecure first reported...
Blockchain security firm CertiK has identified a security breach on the Arbitrum network, where an attacker exploited a vulnerability in signature verification to drain approximately $140,000. The incident reported by CertiK Alert on X at 04:06 UTC on March...
The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) has issued a stark warning about the growing threat of cryptocurrency and social media scams, emphasizing the increasingly deceptive tactics used by fraudsters to exploit investors. In a March 6 statement, NASAA...
Authorities in Hong Kong are warning traders about a fraudulent cryptocurrency being promoted by an X account impersonating Chief Executive John Lee. The scam involves a Solana-based token falsely marketed as the region’s "National Hong Kong Coin." On March...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has imposed sanctions on an Iranian national, Behrouz Parsarad, for his role in operating Nemesis, a darknet marketplace linked to the trafficking of fentanyl and other illicit drugs. The Department’s Office of Foreign...
