cryptocurrency

Employees of the UBK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region during a business trip to the Stavropol Territory detained a local resident. He is suspected of fraud committed on a particularly large scale. It was previously established...

The US authorities appealed to the court to confiscate Tether (USDT) in the amount of almost 200 thousand dollars, which are stored on the Binance crypto exchange. This lawsuit is related to a fraud case, as a result of which the man lost more than a million dollars. This is stated in the...

A user of the OKX cryptocurrency exchange lost more than $2 million worth of crypto assets due to a personal data leak. Hackers changed the security settings in his account, posing as a victim using a deepfake. The victim, named Lai Fang Chang, shared details of the incident with crypto...

The US Treasury Department has accused Bill Guan, CFO of the international media company Epoch Times, of organizing a scheme to launder at least $67 million of illegally obtained funds through cryptocurrencies. According to the case file, from 2020 to May 2024, Guan created the Make Money...

85-year-old David Kagel, a former lawyer from California, admitted his role in creating a $9.5 million cryptocurrency fraud scheme. A year ago, David Kagel was expelled from the California Bar Association. Therefore, he decided to make money in another way ― using his "reputation as an...

Dangerous malware called Erbium has appeared on the Internet. This is an identity theft tool that targets your passwords, bank card details, cookies, cryptocurrency wallets, and possibly more. Due to its rapid spread and widespread availability in the future, it could be adapted to infect...

Everyone who has access to the Internet has heard more than once about the “magical” world of cryptocurrencies. There, ordinary people become real investors and increase their initial capital many times over. But there are also those who went there indiscriminately: they didn’t know what to...

Many of us have experienced bank card fraud or problems conducting transactions from abroad. How many other vulnerabilities does this flawed card payment system conceal? Is there an alternative, but reliable and convenient replacement for it? What about a blockchain based system? To answer these...

Even EDR solutions are powerless against such a well-thought-out campaign. Elastic Security Labs and Antiy specialists have identified a new cryptocurrency mining campaign codenamed REF4578, in which GhostEngine malware uses vulnerable drivers to disable antivirus programs and launch the XMRig...

The infrastructure used for attacks will be destroyed, the group promised. The hacker group Pink Drainer announced the end of its activities, claiming to have achieved the goal of stealing $85 million in cryptocurrency . The group promised to destroy the infrastructure used for the attacks...

Experts warn about a malicious extension for Google Chrome called "VenomSoftX". By installing this addon, users run the risk that the contents of their clipboard in Windows will fall into the hands of intruders. In fact, VenomSoftX is one of the components of a malicious program for...

The national authorities of Austria, Cyprus and the Czech Republic conducted measures to combat online fraud with the "sale of new cryptocurrency tokens". In a coordinated operation supported by Eurojust and Europol, six key suspects were arrested and six locations were searched. In total...

The Prosecutor's Office for the Southern District of New York has filed charges against a member of the Cartier family and five Colombian citizens for laundering funds received from drug trafficking through the USDT stablecoin. According to the authorities, the defendants were members of a...

The Main Department of Digital Development of the Preliminary Investigation has completed the investigation of a criminal case against one of the leaders of an organization specializing in conducting tests in the gambling sector. Investigators found that from May 2019 to May 2023, a 42-year-old...

ZachXBT warns that the methods of criminals are becoming more sophisticated, despite the sanctions. The infamous North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group continues to carry out large-scale cyber attacks on cryptocurrency projects and networks. According to experts, the total amount of digital...

An instagrammer known as Jay Mazini has pleaded guilty to money laundering using bitcoins. Now the blogger faces up to 20 years in prison. In March of last year, Jebara Igbara was charged by the US Department of Justice with stealing bitcoins from his subscribers. Recently, the defendant...

In just a few days, hackers managed to intercept almost $18,000 in cryptocurrency. An extensive network of phishing sites masquerading as the popular self-destructing messaging service Privnote was recently discovered in cyberspace. These sites are designed to look and function like a real...

According to the local edition of the Bangkok Post, the Thai police arrested a Russian citizen for providing tourists with cryptocurrency exchange services. Thai police officers examined a number of online ads for the purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies in the Koh Samui and Koh Phangan areas...

A New York jury found two former promoters of the IcomTech cryptocurrency pyramid scheme guilty of conspiracy to use electronic means of fraud. This is reported by the US Department of Justice. According to the case file, Gustavo Rodriguez has been creating a website for IcomTech, which...

The US Department of Justice has accused the two founders of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer, Roman Shtorm and Roman Semyonov, of helping criminals (including the North Korean gang Lazarus) launder more than $1 billion in stolen cryptocurrencies. Storm was arrested in Washington, and...