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ETH Developer Virgil Griffith Sentenced to 5 Years for North Korea Crypto Trip
A New York US Federal Court judge has sentenced former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith to 63 months in prison and fined him $US100,000 fo...
Cybersecurity Uncovers 13 Malicious Wallets that Could Steal Your Crypto
A criminal plot to steal users’ digital assets via apps impersonating popular cryptocurrency wallets has been uncovered in new researc...
Australian Consumer Watchdog Sues Meta Over Crypto Scam Ads
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced it will be suing Meta over the company’s failure to block crypto s...
$790,000 Worth of Rare Bear NFTs Stolen in Brazen Phishing Attack
Members of the Rare Bears NFT community woke on March 16 to find it had lost assets to the tune of US$790,000 due to a phishing scam. Accord...
BTC Mixer ‘CoinJoin’ Starts Blacklisting BTC Linked to Illegal Activity
The CoinJoin coordinator that facilitates the coin mixing functionality built into the privacy-focused Wasabi Wallet has started blacklistin...
Darknet Ecstasy Kingpin Forfeits $2.3 Million in Bitcoin
A 25-year-old man from Massachusetts in the US has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for selling illicit drugs for cryptocur...
Chainalysis Reveals ‘Criminal Whales’ Hold $25 Billion in Digital Assets
A new Chainalysis report has revealed that a total of 4,068 “criminal whales” across the globe are holding US$25 billion in digi...
FBI Announces Crypto Crime Division to Tackle Ongoing Ransomware Attacks
The US Department of Justice has announced the establishment of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET). The unit, which will sp...
UK Authorities Make First NFT Seizure, Worth $1.9 Million
In what is claimed to be the first haul of its kind in the UK, tax authorities have seized three NFTs valued at US$1.9 million as part of an...
Bitfinex Hack and Bitcoin Laundering Scheme Coming to Netflix
Remember the Bitfinex hack of 2016? Well, this real-life story is now coming to Netflix as a documentary series about the married couple who...
Tweet NFT Marketplace ‘Cent’ Halts Sales Citing ‘Rampant Plagiarism’
NFT marketplace “Cent” has had to temporarily halt most transactions on its platform to address “rampant” sales of fake and plagiari...
The Story of a Wannabe Rapper and How US Officials Seized $3.6 Billion in BTC
The US Justice Department has impounded US$3.6 billion in bitcoin and arrested a would-be rapper and her husband for conspiring to launder s...