Crypto Crime

Resolv Labs confirmed that its USR stablecoin minting system was exploited on March 22, 2026. An attacker gained access to private keys and minted 80 million unbacked USR tokens. The...

Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX co-founders Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal were arrested by Thane Police in connection with an alleged ₹71.6 lakh ($85K) crypto investment fraud case. The complaint claims...

Joint efforts by the FBI and Thai police to combat scams targeting Americans are yielding results. The joint task force comprising FBI agents and the Royal Thai Police led to...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in New York warned Tron users about a new scam where fake “FBI” tokens are sent to wallets. These tokens claim users are under...

Crypto hacks are becoming more costly, with average losses now reaching $24.5 million. Immunefi’s 2026 State of Onchain Security report shows that a few large breaches are causing most of...

Bitrefill, a crypto e-commerce and gift card platform, has accused the state-sponsored North Korean hacking apparatus, Lazarus Group, of being behind its cyberattack earlier this month. A Consistent Pattern With...

Owning Bitcoin in France is becoming a physical security risk. Three people have been charged following a coordinated series of violent attacks targeting suspected cryptocurrency holders near Paris, and the...

A UK High Court has allowed a lawsuit over the alleged theft of 2,323 Bitcoin to proceed to trial, with the assets now valued at around $172 million.  The claim...

The United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada have started Operation Atlantic, a joint law enforcement effort aimed at crypto approval phishing scams tied to investment fraud. The operation began...

Crypto Hackers are using large language models (LLMs) to target old EVM smart contracts for unguarded bugs. The activity is drawing attention to contracts deployed years ago that still hold...

A complex DeFi trade on BNB Chain triggered a sharp liquidation cascade across THE and CAKE markets on Venus Protocol. On-chain data shows a wallet that previously received 7,447 ETH...

A Singapore court sentenced a Chinese national to two years in jail for his role in a cryptocurrency theft that drained millions from a trading platform. The case highlights rising...

Ayush Varshney, co-founder and chief technical officer of Darwin Labs Private Limited, is under arrest in India by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Varshney is suspected of playing a...

The U.S. government is pursuing the seizure of 127,271 Bitcoin linked to Chen Zhi, a Chinese-born businessman once based in Cambodia. Chen allegedly operated a sprawling network of global “pig...

A violent home invasion in Le Chesnay, a suburb west of Paris, left a French couple in their late fifties forced to transfer roughly $1 million in cryptocurrency to armed...

A North Korean threat actor, UNC4899, launched a sophisticated attack on a cryptocurrency firm in 2025, stealing millions in digital assets. The hackers tricked a developer into downloading a seemingly...

Authorities in Moldova have uncovered a complex election interference operation involving cryptocurrency transfers, anonymous wallets, and international financial networks. According to the head of the National Anticorruption Center (CNA), investigators...

Hong Kong police have launched an investigation after a 25-year-old mainland Chinese businessman was kidnapped and assaulted during a meeting that turned into a violent robbery. The incident happened at...

A sophisticated hacking campaign targeting the heart of the cryptocurrency industry has been exposed by cybersecurity firm Ctrl-Alt-Intel, and the fingerprints left behind suggest possible links to North Korean threat...

Authorities have arrested a suspect accused of stealing more than $46 million in cryptocurrency from wallets linked to the United States Marshals Service. According to a statement from Kash Patel,...

Bitcoin-focused DeFi platform Solv Protocol confirmed a limited exploit inside one of its Bitcoin Reserve Offering (BRO) vaults. The incident affected fewer than 10 users and involved 38.0474 SolvBTC. At...

A crypto influencer has lost roughly $24 million in aEthUSDC to violent physical attackers who used weapons and threats to coerce access to his crypto wallet. In his latest post...

The South Korean police have arrested seven members of a phishing syndicate involved in the hacking of virtual asset wallets and stealing 800 million won worth of Tether (USDT).  A...

A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury has found former Los Angeles Police Department officer Eric Halem guilty of kidnapping and robbery after he broke into a home and stole...

The Korean National Police (KNP) agency is hunting the second suspect in the $4.8 million stolen funds from the National Tax Service (NTS). The KNP stated that the first thief...