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Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The attacker who stole $46 million from the KyberSwap protocol has used a complex strategy described by ...

Advisers for bankrupt crypto exchange FTX have been disclosing data from customers’ transactions and accounts with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), according to court documents seen by Bloomberg. In response to subpoenas issued by several FBI field offices during the past fe ...

An advisory report issued by various government agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom is warning users to beware of a new malware that is being used to target crypto wallets and exchanges. Various intelligence organizations including the National Security Agency (NSA), ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned of criminal actors that are hijacking social media accounts and posing as legitimate people in the nonfungible token and crypto space. It also raised concerns over spoof websites that dupe victims into thinking they are using legitimate platfo ...

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) reportedly searched the home of Kraken co-founder Jesse Powell in March as part of an investigation into claims he hacked and cyber-stalked a nonprofit arts group.It is claimed that Powell interfered with computer accounts by blockin ...

A diverse group of United States enforcement agencies has made official its cooperation on crimes related to the darknet and digital currency with the announcement of the Darknet Marketplace and Digital Currency Crimes Task Force on June 20. The new organization will target “cryptocurrency- ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning about fake jobs that disguise servitude in cryptocurrency fraud schemes. Such jobs typically involve moving to Southeast Asia, U.S. law enforcement officials said. Criminals are looking for tech support ...

Asset manager BTC Capital Management sued domain provider Domains by Proxy, accusing the company of brokering a bitcoin fraud scheme. The lawsuit, filed by investment firm BTC Capital Management in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, states that Dom ...

It included nine unlicensed cryptocurrency exchanges Their sites were blocked and domains confiscated Law enforcement officials are investigating to determine the names of those involved Yesterday, May 2, the National Police of Ukraine published an of ...

The National Police of Ukraine's Cyber Police Division has announced the shutdown of nine services that were being used by hackers to exchange virtual assets obtained as ransom payments. The operation, which was conducted in collaboration with the Main Police Investigation Department and the Pros ...

The FBI recently conducted a thorough search of the Maryland home of former CEO of FTX Digital Markets, Ryan Salame, for undisclosed reasons. It is suspected that the search is related to Salame's close working relationship with Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the now-collapsed FTX exchange who ...

He is one of Bankman-Fried's closest associates He was involved in the creation of the exchange and served as co-CEO of the Bahamas unit Salame also received millions in royalties from Alameda Research, as did other members of top management In the ea ...

Bitzlato, a popular cryptocurrency exchange, has recently refuted claims made in the media that Anatoly Legkodymov, one of its co-founders, has admitted to engaging in large-scale money laundering. Rumours started circulating online that Legkodymov, who was arrested by the FBI in mid-January, was ...

The Department of Justice in the United States has made a groundbreaking announcement stating that they have seized digital assets worth approximately $112 million from cybercriminals who were involved in cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering. According to the US Department of Justice, six ac ...

A founder of a fraudulent cryptocurrency project called Titanium Blockchain has been sentenced to 4 years in prison by a US court after his clients lost $21 million. Michael Stolleri launched the Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services (TBIS) project in 2017 and conducted an initial coin offe ...

The decentralized platform, Harvest Keeper, which claimed to use artificial intelligence technology based on ChatGPT to optimize trading and generate profits, has left its users in dismay. The developers behind the project promised an impressive return of 101% in just 21 days, but suddenly disapp ...

According to the FBI Internet Crime Report 2022, cryptocurrency fraud cases have seen a significant increase of 183% from the previous year, reaching a total of $2.57 billion. This is a sharp rise from the $907 million reported in 2021. The data was collected from the Internet Crime Complaints Ce ...

Europol, in collaboration with the FBI and law enforcement agencies in several European countries including Germany, Belgium, Poland, and Switzerland, has taken down ChipMixer, a crypto mixing service that was suspected of laundering over $2.92 billion. During their operation, intelligence offici ...

Ruja Ignatova, co-founder of the infamous OneCoin cryptocurrency pyramid and dubbed as the "Crypto Queen," reportedly met a gruesome end in 2018 at the hands of a drug lord, according to Bulgarian media. Ignatova and her accomplices launched the OneCoin scheme in 2014, promising investors that th ...