Crypto Crime

An Ontario woman has shared how an AI-generated video featuring Canada’s Prime Minister led her into a cryptocurrency investment scam that resulted in the loss of more than $900,000. The...

Unlike traditional bank transfers, cryptocurrency transactions are generally irreversible. However, if you report a scam quickly, it gives law enforcement a much better shot at tracking blockchain transactions. This means...

Taiko has warned users to pull funds from all bridges after a breach hit its chain-state verification system, breaking the trust model used by bridges across the network. The project...

The FBI has identified a growing tactic in cryptocurrency investment fraud where scammers dispatch couriers to collect cash directly from victims after convincing them they are investing in legitimate digital...

A hacker drained approximately $1.34 million from Raydium’s Legacy AMM V3 program, targeting five liquidity pools that were deprecated years ago but never fully disabled on-chain. The exploit was discovered...

India’s Bitcoin scam investigation has taken on a political dimension after Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge suggested that leaders from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could also be named...

A fraud case in Beijing has drawn attention after stolen funds were lost in leveraged cryptocurrency trading. The case centers on a 60-year-old woman who used a false identity to...

Humanity Protocol has suffered a major security breach after private keys belonging to a member of the Humanity Foundation were compromised. More than 19 wallets have been drained for over...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced the results of its first-ever “Disruption Week.” The coordinated effort involved government agencies, law enforcement partners, and major technology firms. The operation...

On June 3, 2026, Microsoft Threat Intelligence reported that two compromised npm packages were deploying a remote access trojan (RAT) to steal keystrokes, screenshots, and crypto wallet credentials while abusing...

On May 31, 2026, CertiK Alert reported $68.3 million in total losses from crypto exploits, including $2.6 million from phishing, making it the third month in 2026 with under $100...

A 53-year-old Chinese Real Estate developer, Yang Weixin, has been killed in Cambodia by kidnappers who demanded $2 million in cryptocurrency from his wife. According to reports, the businessman lived...

A 44-year-old man from Thane city has been booked for allegedly cheating seven people of Rs 1.61 crore after promising high returns through cryptocurrency investments, police said on Friday, according...

South Korean prosecutors have filed the country’s first criminal prosecution tied to a decentralized exchange rug pull case after charging a group accused of manipulating the Solana-based meme coin CATFI...

Scammers have stolen at least $400,000 through fake Uniswap Google Ads. The stolen funds reportedly came from users who were redirected to phishing sites impersonating Uniswap after clicking sponsored Google...

Crypto users have lost at least $400,000 after clicking fake Google ads impersonating Uniswap, according to multiple security researchers tracking the campaign. The attack used sponsored Google search results that...

According to reports from Blockaid, hackers have exploited a vulnerable third-party SquidRouterModule linked to the Squid ecosystem.  In its latest post on X, the enterprise-grade Web3 security platform stated that...

XRPL developer and Xaman wallet founder Wietse Wind has renewed a scam warning to XRP holders as fresh impersonation campaigns targeted users. The warning followed a rise in fake X...

Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao joined a number of crypto users mocking fake Web3 job offers after scammers increasingly used LinkedIn, Telegram, and fake GitHub projects to target developers and traders....

On May 22, 2026, prominent on-chain investigator ZachXBT warned that Polymarket’s Universal Market Access (UMA) Conditional Token Framework (CTF) Adapter contract on Polygon was likely exploited in a major security...

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao issued a warning to developers as news of the GitHub breach spread across social media.  “If you have API keys in your code, even private repos,...

A free Steam game has been removed after researchers and players linked it to malware allegedly built to scan user data and target cryptocurrency wallets. Kyunghyang Games reported on May...

Rathnakishore Giri, a 31-year-old from New Albany, Ohio, was sentenced to nine years in federal prison plus three years of supervised release for running a $10 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. ...

Bitcoin DeFi protocol Echo Protocol suffered a major exploit after an attacker gained control of the protocol’s admin private key and minted 1,000 unauthorized eBTC on the Monad blockchain. The...

On May 14, 2026, Myanmar published a parliamentary bill proposing the death penalty for those who detain or violently coerce victims into online scam centres. The “Anti-Online Scam Bill” targets...