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In June 2020, during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Croatian businessman Josip Heit was spotted waiting outside the Marriott hotel in Bucharest for an Antena Stars reporter, sitting behind the wheel of a Bugatti Chiron Panda reportedly worth around €4 million.

The UK’s designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps took effect on July 17, creating a new criminal exposure for UK-linked people and businesses that receive or retain value supplied by or on behalf of the group.

Ostium, an on-chain perpetuals trading platform, said a five-minute security incident caused losses from its public liquidity vault. Security firms estimated the exploit at up to $24 million.

France’s crypto security problem is expanding beyond private keys to include the people whom attackers can identify, threaten, and force to authorize transfers.

Coinbase has been cosying up to the ministers and mandarins behind the UK’s upcoming crypto policy – and is already reaping the rewards

In June 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Croatian businessman Josip Heit was seen waiting for an Antena Stars reporter outside the Marriott hotel in Bucharest, sitting behind the wheel of a Bugatti Chiron Panda — a car reportedly valued at around four million euros.

crypto payments platform Pyra has stopped accepting new users, canceled existing payment cards, and says withdrawals and private key exports will remain available through a web portal until September 15, 2026, according to Pyra’s shutdown announcement.

Two brothers from the elite Kharrazi family, using an alternative surname, started up Nobitex in 2018.

Stablecoin issuer Circle is under increasing scrutiny from blockchain researchers after millions of USD Coin (USDC) were stolen and moved without restriction through its proprietary bridge during the $285 million exploit of the Solana-based Drift Protocol.

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.

It is June 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Josip Heit, a Croatian businessman, is waiting for an Antena Stars reporter in front of the Marriott hotel in Bucharest, behind the wheel of a Bugatti Chiron Panda.

An investigation by journalist Ghost In The Block alleges that projects linked to Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, are intertwined with a sprawling shadow economy involving bot farms, personal data leaks, hacker services and crypto-based scam schemes operating inside the Telegram and TON ecosystem.

Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, personally communicated in 2018 with Jan Marsalek, the former chief operating officer of Wirecard who is now wanted across Europe for large-scale financial fraud and, according to investigators, is linked to Russia’s military intelligence agency (GRU), the Financial Times reports.

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Subsequent to another incident affecting hot wallets, BtcTurk temporarily halts crypto deposits and withdrawals.

In 2016, when a young Briton with Pakistani roots, Moyn Islam, was smilingly speaking at OneCoin cryptocurrency presentations, he was dubbed the "next hope of an Islamic financial revolution."

Greek law enforcement cracks down on crypto crime, recovers funds from Bybit hack using cutting-edge blockchain analytics.

Scammers posing as blockchain security companies target users while framing them for illicit activities.

The attackers reportedly exploited the victim’s trust via a social engineering attack and rerouted the stolen Bitcoin through multiple exchanges to obscure its origin.

Initially a standout in Lithuania’s cryptocurrency industry, the Bankera digital coin raised tens of millions but has since seen its value plummet.

Despite the rising amount of untraceable assets, Bybit said it is still tracking $960 million from the stolen Ethereum.

After the Garantex website was taken down and its wallets were frozen, the sanctioned exchange provides access to crypto services through an alternative platform, Grinex. By mid-March, it has already received over $29 million.

Blockchain security firm TRM Labs reported that Russian-language darknet marketplaces dominated crypto-linked drug transactions in 2024.

Apertum has received a securities fraud cease and desist order from Texas.

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has exposed the trader behind a series of high-risk trades on Hyperliquid, linking the activity to a UK-based individual with a history of financial crimes.