Crypto Scam

Federal prosecutors said Detroit resident Jibreel Pratt, 26, has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison after he admitted concealing Bitcoin transfers he believed would support the Islamic State...

The U.S. Justice Department has announced a series of joint actions directed at eliminating North Korea’s illicit revenue networks across the United States and overseas, detailing five guilty pleas and...

Australian authorities have issued an urgent warning about a sophisticated scam where fraudsters are exploiting the country’s national ReportCyber system to impersonate Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers and steal cryptocurrency....

Canada’s financial intelligence unit, FINTRAC, has imposed its largest penalty ever, levying a C$176.96 million (approx. $126.2 million USD) fine against crypto exchange Cryptomus for egregious violations of anti-money laundering...

AUSTRAC (Australian Transaction Reports & Analysis Centre) is being granted expanded regulatory powers to tackle what authorities are calling high-risk crypto ATM activity. Proposed changes include allowing the financial intelligence...

Attorney John E. Deaton has urged authorities and political leaders to reject any effort to pardon or commute the sentence of Sam Bankman-Fried, the former FTX chief convicted of arranging...

The official X account of FTX has issued a warning about phishing campaigns targeting users awaiting bankruptcy distributions. The alert comes amid reports of deceptive emails impersonating Kroll Restructuring Administration...

A Chinese national, Zhimin Qian, also known as Yadi Zhang, has been accused of orchestrating a massive fraud in China between 2014 and 2017, defrauding over 128,000 victims. Authorities allege...

India has created its first dedicated Cryptocurrency Investigation Cell in Thane. The unit will track illicit transactions and dismantle schemes that use crypto to launder stolen funds. Officials said the...

PeckShield flagged a $3.6 million abnormal withdrawal from Hypervault, a DeFi vault project tied to Hyperliquid. The funds were moved from Hyperliquid to the Ethereum network via a bridge, swapped...

In 2025, the headlines are all too familiar: another hack, another scam, another crypto investor targeted. The threats are growing, and so are the attackers. What used to be simple...

Between January and August 2025, 36,684 suspicious transaction reports (STRs) were submitted by virtual asset service providers (VASPs), say South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and Korea Customs Service (KCS)....

Binance has issued an important security reminder for projects on September 9, warning crypto projects to be wary of scammers claiming to be listing agents or intermediaries who promise fast-track...

The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on 19 entities across Myanmar and Cambodia for operating large-scale cryptocurrency investment fraud networks that use forced labor to target American victims. The...

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon has failed in his attempt to recover a S$19.4 million (about $14.2 million) deposit paid for a luxury penthouse in Singapore after the nation’s High...

An Indian anti-corruption court has thrown the book at 14 individuals, including senior police officials and a former legislator, sentencing them all to life in prison for a 2018 Bitcoin...

The biggest weak point hackers exploited in the first half of 2025 wasn’t the code—it was human behavior, according to CertiK co-founder Ronghui Gu. Gu made the statement during an...

Kanye West’s official entry into the crypto market with his Solana-based meme coin, YZY, saw its market valuation briefly flash above $3 billion before a dramatic decline, leaving a trail...

A sprawling international crypto scam has been dismantled by Indian authorities and U.S. law enforcement, masterminded by Chirag Tomar, a New Delhi native accused of stealing over $20 million through...

Chinese authorities have ramped up efforts to prosecute cryptocurrency-related crimes, sentencing a former tech executive to over 14 years in prison for embezzling 140 million yuan (approximately $19.5 million) from...

The cryptocurrency community went aghast after Ricky Banks, CEO of FaZe, stepped down amid the MLG scandal. The meme coin was highly promoted in early 2025 by Banks along with...

The Delhi High Court in India denied bail to Umesh Verma, a businessman accused of defrauding 61 people through a crypto investment scheme, with the judge issuing a stark warning...

Hackers stole approximately $140 million (R$ 800 million) by breaching reserve accounts of six Brazilian financial institutions through infrastructure provided by C&M Software, a technology supplier connected to the country’s...

Telegram’s attempt to dismantle the Huione Guarantee marketplace in May was seen as a decisive move against crypto-driven scams. However, the takedown has proven more symbolic than effective. Within weeks,...

In what security researchers are calling the largest data breach in history, a massive compilation of 16 billion stolen usernames and passwords has been uncovered in a series of exposed...