Crypto Crime

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...

Federal prosecutors have secured a 23-year prison sentence against Robert Dunlap in a crypto scam tied to Meta-1 Coin. The United States Department of Justice said the fraud caused more...

France is facing a sharper and more violent wave of crypto-linked kidnapping, with recent cases showing that attackers are not only targeting investors but also their parents, spouses, and children....

French authorities are investigating a rise in crypto-linked kidnappings after a 74-year-old man from Voiron in Isère survived a violent 16-hour abduction in January 2026. Police said attackers stormed his...

Grinex, a Russia-linked crypto exchange registered in Kyrgyzstan, has halted operations after alleging a hack that cost it approximately 1 billion rubles, equivalent to $13.1 million.  Grinex Blames the West...

A security probe backed by the Ethereum Foundation has found that about 100 North Korean IT workers infiltrated Web3 firms using fake identities, raising new concerns about vulnerabilities in the...

The Police in Paraguay have arrested a criminal gang comprising 10 members between the ages of 18 and 20 years old, suspected of having stolen up to $1.2 million from...

Rhea Finance suffered a suspected exploit that drained at least $7.6 million after an attacker appeared to have manipulated the protocol’s oracle and validation layer. The incident was first flagged...

Anonymous online identities no longer offer the protection many users assume, as new research shows artificial intelligence can connect digital personas with real individuals at scale. A joint effort by...

Ukrainian authorities have arrested a suspect linked to large-scale cybercrime and fraud cases across the United States and Europe. The detention took place in the Transcarpathian region during a coordinated...

Drift Protocol has confirmed a proposed $147.5 million recovery package after a major exploit disrupted its operations. The decentralized exchange said Tether and its partners will back the funding as...

Brazilian authorities have opened one of the country’s biggest crypto-linked financial crime cases after accusing a network of moving more than R$1.6 billion through laundering schemes in Brazil and abroad....

Kidnap cases demanding ransom in cryptocurrency have surged in France since the beginning of 2025, coinciding with the growing popularity of digital assets among the nation’s community.  One of the...