The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office has dismantled the online backbone of a multinational cryptocurrency scam that drained tens of millions of dollars from Russian-speaking victims across the U.S. Working with the FBI, investigators executed …
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US targets $26.4 million in five crypto scam cases as DOJ says $800 million recovered
by adminby adminU.S. prosecutors filed five civil-forfeiture complaints on July 21 seeking roughly $26.4 million in cryptocurrency traced through separate international fraud investigations. Investigators can freeze suspected criminal proceeds before they know who is behind the …
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ZachXBT Highlights $282M Theft of Bitcoin and Litecoin in Hardware Wallet Scam
by adminby adminThe investigator said the attacker swapped funds into Monero and moved BTC across chains using Thorchain. Onchain investigator ZachXBT said a victim lost more than $282 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) and Litecoin (LTC) …
Major hacks struck the gaming world today, with e-sports channels and official company platforms used to promote a fake meme coin. The incident even compromised one of Valve’s YouTube channels. Valve was a particular …
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Copy-Paste Mistake Leads to $50M USDt Loss in Address Poisoning Scam
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A single transaction error led to one of the largest onchain losses seen this year, after a user mistakenly sent nearly $50 million in USDt to a scam address in a classic address poisoning …
