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A hacker walked away with $25 million from quantitative trading firm Kronos Research after accessing its compromised API keys.On Nov. 19, Kronos Research revealed that an unauthorized entity accessed some of its API keys. Subsequently, the firm stopped its trading services on the plat ...

Fourteen Ukrainian officials received advanced training on investigating new-age financial crimes in a training course held from Nov. 14 to Nov. 17 in Vienna.According to a report released by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSEC), the select supervisory and l ...

The Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5), a global anti-tax fraud group, hosted investigators, cryptocurrency experts and data scientists in “The Cyber Challenge” event to track down individuals and organizations committing tax fraud.The J5 members comprise the criminal intelligence ...

Reacting to the rising attempts from bad actors to dupe crypto investors, the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) plans to form a specialized cryptocurrency and virtual assets team to counter the issue.The NCA posted a job opening on Nov. 4, looking to hire six individuals to crea ...

A new contract deployed on Oct. 29 by Unibot, a popular Telegram bot used to snipe trades on the decentralized exchange Uniswap, was reportedly exploited to hack roughly $560,000 in various memcoins from users.On Oct. 31, blockchain security firm Scopescan alerted Unibot users about an ong ...

Coinbase International Exchange, holding a class F license from the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA), has announced that it has obtained additional regulatory approval to offer perpetual futures trading to non-US retail customers. Coinbase International had previously launched crypto derivatives ...

Mixin Network, a decentralized wallet service, has temporarily suspended deposit and withdrawal services due to a hack involving approximately $200 million in funds. The company announced this suspension on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) and stated that they are working with the blockcha ...

The number of daily users in the Horizon Worlds meta-universe developed by Meta is now just 900 people. This was revealed by YouTube blogger Jarvis Johnson. Meta claimed that Horizon Worlds, which is valued at $36 billion, is visited by at least 200,000 users a month. And CEO Mark Zukerberg ha ...

US lawmakers want to know under what circumstances Prometheum obtained its broker-dealer license. Congressman Patrick McHenry and more than 20 Republicans sent letters to the SEC and FINRA. Republicans are asking for documents on Prom ...

The investigative work of independent blockchain sleuth ZachXBT has been cited in a class action lawsuit in Canada against Boneheads, an alleged $3.1 million nonfungible token rug pull.Tweeting on July 7, ZachXBT highlighted that lawsuit as he reiterated accusations that the Boneheads tea ...

Goldman Sachs is currently facing scrutiny from the Federal Reserve and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding its involvement in the purchase of Silicon Valley Bank’s securities portfolio prior to the bank’s collapse, The Wall Street Journal has reported, citing sour ...

Police in South Korea announced the elimination of two fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes whose organizers managed to lure investors for about $360 million. Suwon County Prosecutor's Office said the originators of one of the scams positioned themselves as a P2P site for tr ...

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) is investigating the cryptocurrency exchange Binance even after it left the Canadian market. The regulator is trying to get some documents and data from the platform. In mid-May, Binance said ...

They are demanding the company turn over a number of documents And plan to bring in third parties The OSC, Canada's chief watchdog, is investigating Binance. More precisely, they continued to do so despite the fact that the cryptocurrency exchange left the local ...

The founder of Terraform Labs hired the world's largest law firm Dentons to represent the businessman during the investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office. This is not the first time Do Kwon has used the services of Dentons. Businessman hired company attorneys to challe ...

Law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Mordovia are conducting an investigation into the fact of fraud - a 26-year-old resident of Saransk encountered fraudsters who pretended to be cryptobrokers. The victim said that in April he decided to "get super profits" by tra ...

The attackers who recently hacked the Tornado Cash project offered to return control of the project to the cryptocurrency community. The information was made public by user Tornadosaurus-Hex on the Tornado Cash community forum. ...

Cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash suffered a serious attack - an unknown person gained full control over the protocol and has already started withdrawing TORN tokens. An analyst at investment firm Paradigm, using the Twitter pseudonym samczsun, reported that on May 20, so ...

A former Ubiquiti employee posed as an anonymous hacker while working for the company and tried to extort $2 million in crypto assets. Nickolas Sharp was arrested in December 2021 and sentenced to six years in prison at the conclusion of the investigation. According to i ...

American mining company Marathon Digital reported receiving another lawsuit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as part of an investigation into the firm's operations in Montana. Marathon Digital received its first lawsuit back in November 2021, and since ...

Boomberg cited its own sources as saying that the U.S. Department of Justice is checking to see if Russian citizens have used the Binance exchange to circumvent sanctions. The investigation is being conducted by the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Jus ...

Investigators are trying to find the allegedly "lost" $43 million The traces of this case lead to Kiev And Globix itself claims the money disappeared after hacking The Gibraltar court has ordered several leading crypto exchanges to freeze accounts lin ...

As per reports from the local media, Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange, is under investigation by the Brazilian Federal Police and the Federal Prosecutor's Office. The investigation was initiated after the Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) informed the Attorney General of Sao Paulo State ...

Calgary, Alberta, Canada's police force has partnered with Chainalysis, an analytical company, to establish the Center for the Investigation of Crimes Related to Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain. The CPS Blockchain Investigation Team (BIT) was formed by the Cybercrime Investigation Unit of the Cal ...

Nim Momeni, the CTO of Expand IT and an entrepreneur, has been arrested by the San Francisco Police Department on suspicion of murdering Bob Lee, the founder of Cash App. During a media briefing, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott confirmed Momeni's arrest and revealed that Lee and Momeni had ...

According to a report from KBS broadcaster, law enforcement agencies in South Korea have arrested three suspects in connection with the murder of the creator of an unidentified cryptocurrency project. The victim, a 48-year-old woman, was taken from her home and killed in a suburb of Seoul. Police ...

The Royal Court in Swansea, a city in Britain, has accused a local citizen of concealing the profits from cocaine trade in two crypto wallets. The Crown Court found Fraser Cuberhives, who is 36 years old, guilty after an investigation that lasted almost a year. The prosecution claimed that Cub ...

V Ventures, an investment company that recently acquired Zipmex, has failed to make a scheduled payment, causing the cryptocurrency exchange to face potential liquidation. The exchange has been unable to pay its employees due to the lack of funds, and has alerted its shareholders about the situat ...

Montenegro's law enforcement authorities made headlines when they apprehended the CEO and co-founder of Terraform Labs at the airport in the capital city. Filip Adzic, the foreign minister of the Balkan country, revealed that Do Kwon had turned into one of the most sought-after criminals on the r ...

Silvergate Bank, a financial institution that provides services to major cryptocurrency companies, is in danger of closing down due to a significant sell-off of assets and an inability to repay debts. The bank's shares dropped by 28% to $10 in early March after it announced a delay in its annual ...

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 ...