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Stolen COVID-19 Vaccines and Fraudulent Certificates Sold on Darknet Markets for Crypto
An investigation undertaken by the Coinfirm blockchain analytics team has uncovered illicit trade in Covid-19 vaccines, certificates, and te...
Scam Warning – Coinbase Users Are Being Sent Fake SMS Confirmations
Scammers are sending out fake emails and confirmation messages to Coinbase users in an attempt to lure them into revealing their account det...
WhaleFarm Token Crashes 99% in Another DeFi Rug Pull
Another project with high-yield promises and an anonymous team has pulled the rug on its investors, stealing over US$2.3 million. On 29 June...
Founders of South African Crypto Investment Company Vanish with $3.6 Billion Worth of Bitcoin
Ameer and Raees Cajee, the brothers behind Cape Town-based crypto investment platform Africrypt, have disappeared under suspicious circumsta...
Scam Warning: Fake Crypto Hardware Wallets Sent to Ledger Customers
Last year, hardware wallet provider Ledger suffered an internal breach of security resulting in the exposure of 250,000 to 1,000,000 custome...
$11 Million Ransom Paid in Bitcoin By World’s Largest Meat Producer
JBS SA – a Brazilian company that processes meat largely sourced from Australia in order to sell it in the Americas and Europe – paid a ...
China Police Arrest 1,100 People For Crypto-Related Money Laundering Charges
In the 5th round of an operation named “Operation Card Breaking” by local authorities, the Chinese police force has arrested over 1100 p...
Australians Lost $26 Million in Bitcoin to Scams in 2020, Report Shows
A new report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) published on June 7, 2021, shows scammers are now commonly recei...
The SEC Files a Lawsuit against Five People Linked to BitConnect
The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit against five individuals linked to BitConnect for promoting and selling unregiste...
Beware of “The Dusting Attack” Hackers Are Using to Break Blockchain Privacy
Dust attacks have become a popular way of malicious activity for hackers trying to break blockchain privacy. Dusting was used at first by pr...
DeFi100 Goes Down, Claiming They Were Hacked And Haven’t Rug-Pulled
DEFI100 (D100), a DeFi project dealing with virtual assets, has gone down. At the time of writing, visitors to the DeFi project’s website ...
1000’s Of Personal Data Possibly Leaked By Mobile Crypto Mining App Pi Network
Pi Network, a mobile cryptocurrency mining app that leverages social connections, has been connected to a personal information data leak. Th...