All news on the topic: Cryptocurrencies

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NCA: Weekend cocaine use could be feeding a £760m Russian laundering ring
Buying cocaine on a Friday night in Britain could be inadvertently funding Russia’s war in Ukraine, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed.
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Crypto crime has already stolen $2.17 billion in the first half of 2025, setting a new all-time record
The occurrence of crimes involving digital assets is increasing rapidly, with projected losses for 2025 expected to exceed the highest years of crypto-related theft.
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Pakistan dedicates 2,000-MW energy capacity to bitcoin mining
Pakistan is channeling 2,000 megawatts of electricity into bitcoin mining and AI data centers, aligning with its efforts to legalize crypto and boost investment.
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Behind the curtain: Trump’s extravagant multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency dinner
Trump gathered about 200 wealthy cryptocurrency owners at his golf course in Washington D.C.
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Former SafeMoon CEO found guilty on all charges in a $200 million cryptocurrency fraud scheme
SafeMoon CEO Braden Karony devised a system for theft, funneling investor funds through a network of pseudonymous wallets and laundering the proceeds
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Bitcoin down 4%, Ether down 9% as crypto market crashes with Wall Street
Crypto market declines amid U.S. stock selloff and Trump tariffs
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Bohdan Prylepa risks life sentence as Ukrainian investigators uncover massive fraud and FSB links
The dealer who embezzled a billion from the military and is possibly collaborating with the FSB mistakenly believes he is untouchable.
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Harmful GitHub repositories executing concealed attacks on cryptocurrency wallets
Kaspersky’s GitVenom campaign uncovers extensive GitHub exploitation via deceptive repositories embedding cryptographic threats.
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Bybit hack of $1.5 Billion: Anatomy of the largest cryptocurrency theft in history
On February 21, an unprecedented event took place: a sophisticated cyberattack on the Bybit exchange led to the theft of approximately $1.46 billion in Ethereum (ETH) and related tokens.
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Spain and Portugal dismantle Russian-led money laundering ring
Spanish and Portuguese police dismantle a multimillion-euro money laundering network connected to organized crime throughout Europe.
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Crypto exchange Bybit reports ether wallet breach
Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit said on Friday that an attacker gained control of an ether wallet and transferred the holdings to an unidentified address.
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Ledger co-founder David Balland abducted and tortured; suspects arrested
French authorities have detained seven individuals following the violent abduction of David Balland, co-founder of cryptocurrency security firm Ledger.
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Texas court orders Bitcoin investor to reveal $124 million in crypto keys
Early Bitcoin adopter learns hard lesson as legal case underscores crypto tax compliance risks.
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The Qmall cryptocurrency exchange has been recognized as a scam: its owner, Bohdan Prylepa, who withdrew billions, has been declared wanted
According to Entrepreneur, the situation with cryptocurrency exchanges is growing increasingly concerning.
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Crypto fraudster Bohdan Prylepa siphoned billions from the Coinsbit exchange and fled to Dubai
Studying the personality of Bohdan Prylepa, one involuntarily recalls the lines of one of the poets – «Oh, how many wonderful discoveries…».
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UK bans ’unauthorised’ crypto website
A website that allows anyone to create their own cryptocurrency in a couple of clicks has been banned in the UK.
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Crypto ‘Laundromat’ linked to Russian financial sector and cocaine trade, police say
Britain’s National Crime Agency said the money laundering bust was its biggest in a decade.
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Multi-billion-pound Russian money-laundering operation uncovered with ties across the UK
The UK’s NCA has led an international crackdown on the "unprecedented" money-laundering operation which swapped cash from British street-level drug deals for cryto from elite Russian hackers
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Octobank and the President of Uzbekistan: How a family dynasty launders Russian money through online casinos and cryptocurrency exchanges
Although the owner of the Uzbek Octobank is formally listed as the bank’s chairman of the board, Iskandar Tursunov, who owns 99.16% of the shares, in fact, the beneficiaries of Octobank are the family of the country’s current president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
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Dmitriy Lee and Octobank: How the "overseer" of the President of Uzbekistan Mirziyoyev launders Russian money
As a number of Telegram channels recently reported, the Uzbek Octobank is used to withdraw and legalize money from Russia.
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Two dealers suspected of operating an illegal £1bn cryptocurrency exchange arrested in London
Metropolitan Police also seized several digital devices during raids on two homes in the capital
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DoJ accuses far-right Epoch Times of being money-laundering operation
Media firm at center of scam involving about $67m, justice department alleges as it announces indictment of CFO Bill Guan
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