Crypto Crime

India’s cybercrime agency has warned of rising scams targeting Trust Wallet users. The alert follows a surge in fraud complaints reported nationwide. Attackers use fake verification steps to gain access...

ZetaChain paused cross-chain transactions on mainnet after an attack hit its GatewayEVM contract. The team said the incident affected only internal ZetaChain team wallets. No user funds were impacted. The...

Litecoin suffered an attack this weekend. A zero-day vulnerability was exploited in a coordinated operation that knocked major mining pools offline, triggered a 13-block reorganization of the chain, and enabled...

A 22-year-old California man has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for laundering millions from a $263 million crypto fraud scheme. Launderer Behind Multi-Million Crypto Operation Evan Tangeman,...

Telegram founder Pavel Durov said France recorded 41 kidnappings of crypto holders in the first 3.5 months of 2026. He linked the surge to leaked personal data and claimed criminals...

Wisconsin has escalated a high-stakes legal fight against major crypto and trading platforms over sports event contracts. The state filed complaints in Dane County targeting Kalshi, Coinbase, Polymarket, Robinhood, and...

Wisconsin, a state in the upper Midwest region of the United States, has initiated a lawsuit against prediction market platforms. In the latest development, the state filed a fresh legal...

JPMorgan said repeated DeFi exploits and stagnant growth continue to curb institutional interest in the sector, with the latest KelpDAO breach reinforcing concerns about security, contagion, and capital efficiency. According...

Decentralized finance platform Flying Tulip has introduced a withdrawal circuit breaker mechanism in response to a surge in exploits that has pushed DeFi losses above $600 million in April alone....

Security experts warned Wednesday that North Korea’s state-backed Lazarus Group has launched a new “Mach-O Man” campaign aimed at crypto, fintech, and other high-value executives. According to reports, the operation...

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a cease and desist order to eight London addresses suspected of being involved in illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading. In a Wednesday announcement,...

The hacker behind the nearly $300 million KelpDAO breach is now moving and laundering the money through a complicated cross-chain route. Blockchain security firm PeckShield says the cybercriminal moved the...

A crypto extortion victim in France has called for more severe penalties against the perpetrators of the crime, roughly three years after the incident. The victim responded to a report...

Volo Protocol, a liquid staking platform built on Sui, said it was hit by an exploit that drained about $3.5 million in assets. The breach affected three vaults holding WBTC,...

The attacker behind the Kelp DAO exploit has laundered about $80 million in stolen funds after moving roughly $175 million worth of ETH earlier this week. According to onchain data,...

A fresh wave of cyber fraud is hitting one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes as scammers are targeting ships stuck near the Strait of Hormuz, promising “safe passage” in...

North Korea-linked hackers are once again at the center of the crypto security debate after the KelpDAO exploit pushed another major DeFi breach onto the list of the industry’s biggest...

On April 21, 2026, the KelpDAO attacker moved 75,700 Ethereum (ETH) worth about $175 million at $2,316 per ETH from the mainnet holding address across three large transactions. The attacker...

Arbitrum has recovered $70.97 million in ETH tied to the recent KelpDAO exploit, taking emergency action to secure 30,766 ETH that had been sitting on Arbitrum One. The funds were...

DeFi exploits have caused more than $775 million in losses in 2026, based on the provided figures. KelpDAO, Drift, and Step Finance posted the biggest incidents. Private key compromise also...

Crypto exchange Kraken faces fresh scrutiny after promoting strong anti-fraud efforts while facing new allegations tied to a controversial token listing. The tension highlights a growing gap between industry cooperation...

The Reserve Bank of India’s proposed fraud safeguards have drawn a response from the crypto sector. CoinDCX CEO Sumit Gupta said the plan addresses real risks in digital payments. He...

On-chain investigator ZachXBT accused RaveDAO insiders of running a coordinated pump-and-dump scheme involving RAVE. The alleged activity took place across major centralized exchanges. The platform urged Binance, Bitget, and Gate.io...

On April 18, 2026, Vitalik Buterin warned users of a Domain Name System (DNS) registrar attack on eth.limo, advising against visiting vitalik.eth.limo or other eth.limo pages until security is restored....

Rhea Finance published a detailed post-mortem this week after losing $18.4 million in an exploit that investigators describe as a combination of two known DeFi attack vectors assembled into something...