Kenyan investors have accused mining company BTCM of fraud
Law enforcement officials have increasingly received complaints from Kenyan citizens who were lured into investing in cryptocurrency company Bitstream Circle Limited (BTCM). BTCM is registered in November 2021 in the United Kingdom and the director ...
Kaspersky: Cryptocurrency phishing attacks in the Philippines up 170%
Kaspersky cybersecurity specialists recorded 24,737 phishing attacks in the Philippines last year. That's an increase of 169.93% from a year earlier. Researchers specify: attacks are primarily focused on stealing digital currencies - attackers are ...
Hong Kong student helped launder about $12.8 million through cryptocurrencies
A simple student helped a criminal gang launder $12.7 million through cryptocurrencies, Hong Kong police said. Chief Inspector Chu Ming-man said the money was transferred to e-wallet accounts overseas to avoid detection: ...
Fox Business correspondent was caught promoting a fake XRP giveaway
A senior correspondent for the Fox Business television show attempted to criticize Ripple, while inadvertently spreading a fraudulent tweet about the XRP token giveaway. Charles Gasparino commented on the tweet, which was posted from a fraudulent a ...
The number of Worldcoin users has reached 2 million
The number of registered users in Worldcoin, the project of ChatGPT's founder, has reached 2 million. This was revealed by representatives of the company itself. On average, about 40000 people sign up for World ID each week. The protocol identifies ...
G20 countries to consider a project to tighten regulation of cryptocurrencies
The G20's Financial Stability Board (FSB) has called for stricter rules to protect the assets of cryptocurrency marketplaces' customers. Large companies will be asked to separate some of their activities and functions. An organization created by th ...
Indonesian authorities announced the launch of a national crypto exchange
Indonesia's Commodity Futures Trading Supervisory Agency (CFTRA) plans to launch a national cryptocurrency exchange as early as July. The state-owned platform will be the only cryptocurrency trading platform in the country. ...
Dean of Finuniversity: law enforcers in Russia monitor all crypto operations
Dean of the Faculty of International Economic Relations at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation Pavel Seleznev assured that law enforcement agencies are monitoring all cryptocurrency transactions. The dean took pa ...
Chainalysis: Crypto fraudsters’ revenues have started to sag very noticeably
Analysts at Chainalysis announced that the amount of assets that cryptocurrency fraudsters and similar criminals were able to get their hands on in the first half of 2023 was down 65% from January-June 2022. Among cryptocurrency crimes, it was frau ...
What’s behind Cardano’s (ADA) 25% price hike
In fact, the court recognized that XRP is not considered a security. For this reason, it was expected that such a bullish breakout would trigger a significant rise. Such a bullish breakout was expected to trigger a significant rise. But contrary to expectations, after the breakout, the A ...