Qubic’s community has voted to make Dogecoin its next target, just days after the group claimed majority control over the Monero blockchain. Founder Sergey Ivancheglo announced the decision on August 17, following Qubic’s controversial demonstration of a 51% attack...
North Korea’s Lazarus cybercrime group has been accused of carrying out a £17 million cryptocurrency theft from British-registered exchange Lykke, an attack described as one of the largest to hit a UK-based digital asset company. The claim was detailed...
Global authorities, in partnership with blockchain intelligence firms, have seized more than $300 million in cryptocurrency linked to cybercrime and fraud through two major coordinated operations. The first initiative, the T3+ Global Collaborator Program, was launched in September 2024...
The Czech Republic’s National Centre Against Organized Crime (NCOZ) has intensified its investigation into a billion-crown bitcoin donation to the Ministry of Justice, detaining convicted drug dealer Tomáš Jiřikovský — the man behind the high-value crypto transfer. The Chief...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has sounded the alarm over a fast-spreading fraud tactic in which con artists pose as attorneys to prey on people who have already lost money in cryptocurrency scams. According to the agency, these impostors...
Tron, Tether, and blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs say their joint financial crime unit has blocked over $250 million in illicit crypto assets since its launch less than a year ago — and is now expanding its network with...
The two Estonian men behind one of the largest crypto-related fraud cases in U.S. history have avoided additional prison sentences after admitting their roles in a $577 million Ponzi scheme. Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, co-founders of the now-defunct...
Federico Carrone, a prominent Ethereum core developer widely known as “Fede’s Intern” on social media, has been released after being detained for 24 hours in Turkey over alleged ties to an Ethereum privacy protocol. Carrone revealed his release in...
An Argentine Ethereum developer known online as “Fede’s Intern” has been detained in Izmir, Turkey, after authorities accused him of helping individuals “misuse” the Ethereum network. Fede disclosed the incident on August 11 via X, stating that Turkish officials...
Former Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has filed a motion in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware seeking dismissal from a $1.76 billion clawback lawsuit initiated by the FTX bankruptcy trust, according to Bloomberg Law. The...
