Scams News

ASIC,

June 13, 2025

Glenda Maree Rogan has been banned from Australia’s financial services industry for ten years after funnelling nearly AU$15M into a crypto...

Hackers,

June 10, 2025

Excitement briefly swept through the Bitcoin community overnight, Australian time, after a post from the personal X account of the Paraguaya...

ATMs,

June 3, 2025

An investigation by Australia’s financial crimes watchdog, AUSTRAC, has revealed widespread lack of compliance by crypto ATM (CATM) operat...

Ethereum,

June 2, 2025

Ethereum’s newest account abstraction feature is being weaponised at scale. According to a new analysis by crypto trading firm Wintermute,...

Australia,

May 21, 2025

A former National Australia Bank (NAB) employee has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for the theft of almost AUD$500,000 from bank c...

Coinbase,

May 19, 2025

Two crypto behemoths, Binance and Kraken, had reportedly blocked hack attempts mirroring the recent Coinbase breach. According to a Bloomber...

Ledger,

May 1, 2025

There’s a new type of scheme targeting Ledger users directly, and it involves the same good ol’ phishing attacks, but this time, sent vi...

Banking,

April 17, 2025

Andrew Broadbent, a Melbourne accountant, tried to invest AU$30,000 in Bitcoin last August through crypto brokerage Stormrake. But the Commo...

Cryptocurrency,

April 16, 2025

A sophisticated scam has taken place through Zoom resulting in Jake Gallan, CEO of Emblem Vault, losing over US$100,000 (AU$157,707) in digi...

ASIC,

April 9, 2025

Australia’s security watchdog has intensified its efforts to combat online fraud and protect consumers from sophisticated scams involving ...

Bitcoin,

April 7, 2025

Jameson Lopp, chief security officer at Bitcoin custody firm Casa, noted a surge in Bitcoin (BTC) address poisoning attacks. In an add...

ASIC,

March 6, 2025

The brother of Olympic breakdancer and national embarrassment, Rachel ‘Raygun’ Gunn, has been in court recently for some ‘sick moves�...