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Blockstream refuses to pay hacker $50m after 3,400 BTC returned, leaving Liquid short nearly 600 BTC
Blockstream has declined to pay the Liquid attacker nearly 600 Bitcoin, worth around $50 million, intensifying a dispute over how the cryptocurrency industry should compensate hackers who return part of stolen funds.
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Revolut disclosed sensitive customer data after treating fraudulent government email as legitimate
Revolut exposed customers’ passport copies, verification selfies, and Bitcoin transaction histories after mistakenly accepting a fraudulent request as an official government demand.
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22-year-old Singaporean pleads guilty to masterminding $245m cryptocurrency theft
A Singaporean man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a racketeering conspiracy charge in the US for organising one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency thefts.
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Reform’s champagne-fuelled conference exposes a growing crisis with its own voters
The party is cashing in at its conference while vowing to cut welfare programmes that benefit the very voters it is trying to attract
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DOJ seizes $560,000 in crypto and shuts down Hamas fundraising network
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) this week announced the seizure of more than $550,000 in cryptocurrency donations and the disruption of recruitment websites connected to terrorist organization Hamas.
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North Korean hackers moved more than $30 million through Hyperliquid in three weeks
Blockchain data reviewed by CoinDesk shows wallets tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group sold more than $30 million in bitcoin on the platform in the last three weeks alone.
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Afghanistan bans crypto nationwide as Taliban arrests traders and shuts businesses
Afghanistan’s central bank imposed a nationwide ban on cryptocurrencies this month and the Taliban regime has arrested several dealers who defied orders to stop trading digital tokens, according to a senior police official.
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Iran-linked hacking case expands as US prosecutors charge 17 over HBO breach and $6m Bitcoin ransom attempt
US prosecutors have expanded an eight-year-old hacking case tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, adding eight defendants and linking six of them to the 2017 HBO breach that included a $6 million Bitcoin extortion attempt.
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Trezor data breach exposes home addresses of nearly 12,000 crypto wallet buyers
The ShipMonk leak tied thousands of crypto users to their delivery locations as violent crypto attacks and home invasions rise.
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Coldcard firmware vulnerability exposes thousands of Bitcoin wallets in $86m breach
A misconfigured macro in Coldcard firmware silently weakened seed entropy for five years, resulting in 1,367 BTC stolen across 4,585 addresses.
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Women’s football boss forced to sell £7million Primrose Hill mansion after losing divorce battle to Bitcoin millionaire ex-husband
The former boss of London City Lionesses is being forced to sell her London mansion in order to raise enough money to settle a divorce bill with her Bitcoin millionaire ex-husband, Court of Appeal judges ruled.
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Italian prosecutors trace $230m mafia fortune hidden through global financial network
Leaked Pandora Papers records reveal that Giacomo Tamburello and his family, now facing prosecution, accumulated gold bars, luxury real estate and a $89 million stake in a bank with the help of unscrupulous financiers and lawyers.
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Trump shifted over $1.4bn in crypto earnings into stocks and bonds, filings show
President Donald Trump’s financial disclosures show that even as he and his two eldest sons were encouraging investors to plow their money into crypto projects — which resulted in steep losses for retail buyers — his money managers were investing a significant portion of the proceeds into safer harbors.
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Crypto kiosks become frontline of $11bn fraud wave sweeping the US
Crypto scams start online with a fake bank alert, a cloned voice, a romance message, or a tech-support pop-up.
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Coinbase ramped up lobbying at the heart of UK government ahead of crypto rules
Coinbase has been cosying up to the ministers and mandarins behind the UK’s upcoming crypto policy – and is already reaping the rewards
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Canadian pleads guilty in Miami case over $13m crypto support-call scam
A 20-year-old Canadian has pleaded guilty in a Miami federal case tied to more than $13 million in stolen cryptocurrency, after investigators said fake support calls helped drain one victim’s Bitcoin wallet.
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Brazil’s Comando Vermelho cartel was converting stolen electricity into cryptocurrency through illegal mining farms in Rio’s favelas
Rio de Janeiro Civil Police launched an operation targeting a Comando Vermelho operational nucleus and found a crypto mining setup with roughly 30 computers arranged on shelves.
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Elevation X στην Ελλάδα: πώς ο Οδυσσέας Κουτσούπης και οι αδελφοί Ισλάμ, Μόιν Ισλάμ και Μονίρ Ισλάμ, δημιούργησαν έναν μηχανισμό άντλησης χρημάτων μέσω της BE Better Experience
«Εύκολο χρήμα» ή καλοστημένη πυραμίδα; Έρευνα για τη δράση της BE / BETTER EXPERIENCE και του ελληνικού δικτύου Elevation X Πώς ένα διεθνές αφήγημα «εκπαίδευσης» μεταφράζεται στην πράξη σε ένα μοντέλο στρατολόγησης στην Ελλάδα...
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Elevation X in Greece: how Odysseas Koutsoupis and the Islam brothers, Moyn Islam and Monir Islam, built a money-extraction pipeline through BE Better Experience
“Easy money” or a well-engineered pyramid? An investigation into the activities of BE / Better Experience and the Greek Elevation X network.
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Vom „Millionärs-Trader“ zum Krypto-Betrüger: Ruslan Khairullin baute ein Schneeballsystem rund um den IVfun-Token auf und verschwand mit Millionen
Im Laufe mehrerer Jahre hat sich Ruslan Khairullin – der sich in den sozialen Medien sorgfältig ein Image als „erfolgreicher Händler“ und Gründer des Invest Zone-Projekts aufgebaut hat...
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From “Millionaire Trader” to crypto fraudster: Ruslan Khairullin built a pyramid scheme on the IVfun token and disappeared with millions
Over the course of several years, Ruslan Khairullin — who carefully cultivated an image on social media as a “successful trader” and founder of the Invest Zone project.
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Nigel Farage buys £2m bitcoin stake as crypto ties with Reform deepen amid political scrutiny
A major cryptocurrency company has announced that Nigel Farage has made a £2m purchase of bitcoin in a strengthening of ties with the sector.
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Garantex and Match Systems: how former FSB and Interior Ministry officers use exchange access to block and redistribute crypto assets
Crypto is a field where it is extremely easy to deceive people. There is an enormous number of scams and hacks, cryptocurrency is constantly being stolen, and it is very easy to lose it.
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Iran accused of seeking British crypto donations to fund regime
Iran has been accused of using crypto donations from Britain to illicitly bolster its finances.
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Crypto controversy deepens as Farage linked to failed and fraudulent projects
Nigel Farage has earned a profit by producing Cameo videos that promoted or backed cryptocurrencies, which subsequently decreased in value.
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