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State-owned telecommunications company China Mobile has proposed to introduce digital identification for all meta-universe users for the sake of maintaining order and security in the virtual world. The digital ID of meta-universe users should include, China Mobile suggests, a range of data includ ...

Local telecom operator China Mobile has proposed creating a "digital identifier system" for all users of the meta-universe. Experts say the proposal could violate basic privacy principles. China Mobile, a Chinese state-owned telecom company, has proposed creating ...

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 ...

Cryptocurrency exchange BKEX announced that it has suspended the withdrawal of client funds while a police investigation is conducted in connection with possible money laundering by several users. In a statement, the site stressed that it would cooperate as much as possible ...

This is the coordinated work of the police and Binance Investigations The funds belonged to hackers from North Korea We recently wrote that the U.S. Treasury Department discovered and froze Binance cryptocurrencies linked to hackers from North Korea. Now the case ...

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 ...

Belarusian citizens who organized a cryptocurrency exchange are prosecuted. Law enforcers accused two Minsk residents of exchanging digital assets and fiat currency, which brought a profit of 5 million Belarusian rubles ($1.7 million). Belarusian Interior Ministry assure ...

NABU calls cryptocurrency technology a modern corruption Bureau organized training "CryptoEdge" It will last 9 months The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine will begin to study the cryptocurrency sector. The agency believes that cryptocurrenci ...

This hacker made a living off of the ransomware programs Hive, LockBit and Babuk Police are now actively looking for him The U.S. State Department has imposed sanctions against Russian citizen Mikhail Matveev. The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asse ...

This is the first offline event from Binance since the war began It was attended by regulators, the National Police and cyber experts The company taught how to combat cryptocurrency crimes The Binance crypto exchange held training seminars for regulat ...

The Supreme People's Procuratorate of China justified the targets for controlling NFT market activities and drew attention to the risks associated with this asset class. In recommendations prepared for the country's law enforcement agencies, the Supreme People's Procuratora ...

KuCoin, a cryptocurrency exchange, recently revealed that it has reason to believe that one of its regular customers may be responsible for the hacking of the exchange's Twitter account and the subsequent theft of cryptocurrency assets. KuCoin conducted an internal audit of the exchange after a u ...

James Zhong was sentenced to a year and a day in prison by the Southern District of New York court due to his involvement in criminal activities related to the theft of over 51,000 BTC from the infamous Silk Road marketplace. In 2012, Zhong was able to hack the Silk Road's withdrawal processing s ...

The European Commission has recently released a report stressing the need for increased scrutiny of users of cryptocurrency exchanges and ATMs, citing concerns over the growing prevalence of darknet marketplaces and the purchasing of illegal substances. The European Monitoring Center for Drugs an ...

In the Krasnodar Territory, a cryptocurrency investor was recently scammed out of 17 million rubles. The woman was trying to sell her USDT tokens when she posted an ad on social media offering to sell them for 196,500 euros. Two buyers from Kazan agreed to the deal and handed over the money to ...

An attempted cryptocurrency exchange in St. Petersburg ended in disaster as the would-be trader was attacked and robbed of his money. The victim contacted the police on Tuesday evening, explaining that he had arranged the exchange through an online deal. Carrying a large sum of money - 700,000 ...

FIC South Africa has taken measures to combat financial crimes, including those related to digital assets and blockchain technology. To this end, the agency has created a specialized forensic unit that will work in conjunction with existing FIC structures to assist law enforcement in financial cr ...

Gary Gensler, the chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has urged the government to provide the agency with $2.4 billion in funding to help tackle the rise of unregistered crypto companies. Addressing the House Financial Services Subcommittee, Gensler explained that the all ...

Euler Labs, a DeFi protocol, has fallen victim to a recent hack, resulting in the loss of almost $200 million. In an attempt to recover some of the stolen funds, the developers of the protocol have made a bold move by approaching the hacker directly. The developers requested that 90% of the fu ...

A local court in Omsk has handed down strict sentences to three individuals who robbed a resident and forced him to transfer over 84 million rubles in cryptocurrency to their wallets. According to the Omsk prosecutor's office, the perpetrators arrived in the city and monitored their victim's move ...

French law enforcement officials have reported the apprehension of two suspects in relation to the Platypus protocol hack. The detainees were found in possession of approximately 210,000 euros worth of crypto assets. It is believed that the hackers siphoned off approximately 9 million euros from ...