Crypto Crime
Bitrefill Accuses North Korea-Linked Lazarus Group of Hacking Its Platform
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...
France on Alert: Violent Attacks Targeting Crypto Holders Rise
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...
UK Court Allows $172M Bitcoin Theft Case Against Wife to Proceed
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...
US, UK, and Canada Launch Operation Atlantic Against Crypto Approval Phishing
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 Use LLMs to Scan EVM Contracts for Vulnerabilities
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...
Venus Protocol Hit by THE and CAKE Liquidation Cascade
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...
Singapore Court Sentences Man in $6.9M SafeX Crypto Heist Case
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...
Indian CBI Arrests Ayush Varshney, Darwin Labs Co-Founder, Over GainBitcoin Scam
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...
Chinese-born Businessman Chen Zhi Alleged For Operating “Pig Butchering”
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...
Armed Attackers Force French Couple to Transfer $1M in Bitcoin
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...
North Korean Hackers Exploit Dev Device, Steal Millions in Crypto
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...
Crypto Laundering Network Used $107M in USDT to Influence Moldova Elections
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...
Chinese Businessman Kidnapped in Hong Kong, Crypto and Silver Stolen
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...
Ctrl-Alt-Intel Uncovers Sophisticated Cyberattack Targeting Crypto Firms
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...
John Daghita Arrested Following $46M U.S. Marshals Crypto Theft
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,...
Solv Protocol Confirms Limited BRO Vault Exploit as 38 SolvBTC Is Drained
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...
Crypto Thieves Combine Physical Assault and Wallet Poisoning to Steal $24 Million
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...
7 Phishing Gang Members Arrested in Korea for Stealing 800M Won from Virtual Wallets
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...
Former LAPD Officer Guilty of Kidnapping in $350,000 Bitcoin Heist
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...
South Korea Police Track Second Thief Behind $4.8M Loss From South Korea Tax Service
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...
ZachXBT Probe Targets Axiom Staff Over Private Wallet Access
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT alleged that a senior employee at Axiom Exchange misused internal tools to access sensitive user data and trade on non-public information. The employee named is Broox Bauer,...
