Crypto Crime

Cross‑chain liquidity protocol THORChain appears to have been hit by a big hack affecting multiple blockchains, according to on‑chain sleuth ZachXBT and other crypto intelligence accounts tracking suspicious fund movements....

Nigel Farage is facing a parliamentary standards commissioner inquiry over a £5 million gift from billionaire Reform UK backer Christopher Harborne. The investigation will examine whether the Reform UK leader...

On-chain investigator ZachXBT has exposed a threat actor, Dritan Kapllani Jr., linked to the theft of $19 million through social-engineering attacks targeting crypto holders. In his latest thread on X,...

Goliath Ventures founder Christopher Alexander Delgado has publicly acknowledged responsibility for investor losses tied to the cryptocurrency investment operation after federal prosecutors previously charged him with wire fraud and money...

Renowned blockchain investigator, ZachXBT, has launched an attack on Bitget over a recent exploit on the centralized exchange. ZachXBT accused the exchange of inflating LAB’s value to bait retail. He...

Marlon Ferro, a 20-year-old from Santa Ana, California, has been sentenced to 78 months in federal prison for his role in a criminal network that stole more than $250 million...

Crypto exchange Coinbase is facing a lawsuit from an anonymous crypto investor who claims the company improperly withheld access to frozen digital assets connected to a major 2024 theft involving...

Stablecoin issuer Tether, alongside Binance, OKX, US law enforcement, and independent security agents, has frozen over $41.5 million tied to the collapse of the DSJ Exchange and BG Wealth Sharing...

A bizarre exploit involving an AI-powered crypto agent has exposed a new category of risk in decentralized finance, after attackers manipulated Grok-linked infrastructure to drain roughly $202,000 in digital assets. ...

Blockchain platform Arkham data shows fund movements tied to KyberSwap exploiter Andean Medjedovic. Wallets linked to the case have now sent a total of $24.88 million through Tornado Cash. The...

On April 30, 2026, Wasabi Protocol suffered a major exploit that drained more than $5 million across Ethereum (ETH), Base, Berachain, and Blast. Security firms Blockaid, CertiK, and PeckShield confirmed...

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,...