Scams News

Firefox,

August 11, 2025

The GreedyBear hacking group, linked to Russian cybercriminal circles, has stolen more than US$1M (AU$1.55M) in cryptocurrency by targeting ...

Scams,

August 8, 2025

A widespread crypto scam is exploiting dormant YouTube accounts to push fake trading bots that siphon funds via hidden smart contract backdo...

Bitcoin,

August 6, 2025

Well, after 12 years, James Howells officially abandoned his bid to recover a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin from a landfill in Newport...

ATMs,

August 5, 2025

The US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued a formal warning to financial institutions about increasing cri...

Law,

July 22, 2025

Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm’s legal team is considering a motion for mistrial after questioning the accuracy of key evidence intro...

Scams,

July 7, 2025

The US Secret Service has seized nearly US$400 million (AU$614.68 million) in cryptocurrencies across the past ten years, with the majority ...

ATM,

June 26, 2025

Australian police have tracked over 90 high-usage crypto ATM users in a sweeping crackdown aimed at curbing scams tied to digital currency.&...

Cointelegraph,

June 24, 2025

Cointelegraph users were hit with a deceptive front-end exploit over the weekend that used a fake token giveaway to target wallets, leveragi...

Blockchain,

June 17, 2025

News Flash! Buying a bargain-basement crypto cold wallet from a dodgy website or a social media marketplace may not be a great financial dec...

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...