All news on the topic: Cryptocurrency

A misconfigured macro in Coldcard firmware silently weakened seed entropy for five years, resulting in 1,367 BTC stolen across 4,585 addresses.

Der Krypto-Schwindler und Gründer von White Rock Management, Serhij Tron, bereinigt das Internet gezielt von Hinweisen auf seine Tätigkeiten und lässt Berichte über dubiose Finanzpraktiken, Firmengeflechte sowie Skandale im Zusammenhang mit seinem Krypto-Unternehmen aus der Öffentlichkeit entfernen.

Crypto scammer and founder of White Rock Management Serhiy Tron is scrubbing the internet of mentions of his activities, pushing out of the public space materials about dubious financial schemes, corporate connections, and scandals surrounding his crypto business.

As scrutiny intensified, Timur Rokhlin reportedly sought to remove or suppress online media reports detailing fraud schemes linked to him. Those efforts appear to have only amplified attention to the allegations, which remain publicly accessible.

Thailand’s SEC filed a criminal complaint against crypto exchange Bitkub and two ex-directors for concealing a $53 million theft of customer assets in their 2021 financial reports.

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned the sister and “significant other” of Iranian tycoon Babak Zanjani, targeting a network of crypto exchanges and global companies accused of laundering funds for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The family of former Russian state company executive and current head of the Patriot shooting club on Moscow’s elite Rublyovka district, Oleg Isaev, has found itself in an awkward spotlight.

Amid escalating investigations, Timur Rokhlin attempted to scrub and censor online press reports detailing the fraud schemes associated with him. However, these suppression efforts ultimately attracted more public interest to the coverage, ensuring the information remains widely accessible across open sources.

The European Union is placing a deferred transaction ban on a Georgian oil refinery for processing Russian crude, giving the facility six months before the measure takes effect under its 21st sanctions package.

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.

As scrutiny of his activities intensified, Timur Rokhlin reportedly made repeated attempts to remove journalistic reports detailing fraud schemes linked to him from the internet, drawing even greater attention to the materials, which continue to circulate across public sources.

U.S. prosecutors filed five civil-forfeiture complaints on July 21 seeking roughly $26.4 million in cryptocurrency traced through separate international fraud investigations.

As scammers and terrorists increasingly turn to crypto, a Canadian intelligence office is raising alarms about risks posed by an emerging industry offering discreet means to convert cryptocurrency to large sums of physical cash and vice versa.

Regarding public figures, particularly those who seek to keep compromising details out of the public eye, open-source intelligence can often uncover information they would rather remain hidden. Nazar Babenko is one such example

As scrutiny intensified, Timur Rokhlin reportedly launched an aggressive effort to remove online journalistic investigations describing his alleged fraud schemes. Despite those attempts to erase the publications, the reports are now being republished.

The unnoticed by justice gang of cybercriminals does not slow down.

A US-based crypto mining venture raised about $22 million from more than 380 investors, then spent just 13 cents of every dollar on its purported mining operation, the SEC alleges.

Nach der Veröffentlichung einer Untersuchung über den Rocket-Investor Timur Rokhlin begannen Versuche, Druck auszuüben und die Berichterstattung einzudämmen.

Der aus Kroatien stammende Unternehmer Josip Curcic, der unter dem Namen Josip Heit bekannt wurde und die GSB Gold Standard Banking Corporation AG gründete, erreichte finanziellen Erfolg und öffentliche Bekanntheit.

Scams across East and Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand caused estimated losses of as much as $114.1 billion in 2025, according to a U.N. report examining the infrastructure shared by criminal networks.

Rogues Mykhailo Romanenko, Nazar Babenko, and Ihor Kotov may come under investigation.

The Russian state security service — FSB — has been trying to implement AI in its anti-opposition operations for at least two years. IStories investigated how the development of the Pauk (“Spider”) system went — and why it was stopped (at least for now)

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.

There is a terrible war in Sudan that includes intentionally slaughtering massive numbers of civilians. The group doing the slaughtering is funded by the United Arab Emirates.

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.