Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 9 months ago
The National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, established in 2021, will be merged with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. The United States Departme...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
Crypto scams have experienced a significant decline of 77% in the first half of 2023, plummeting from a staggering $3.3 billion to $1.1 billion, as shown in a recent report from blockchain intelligence firm, Chainalysis.
This encouraging trend marks...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
The crypto industry is known for being subject to prey from various criminals, but new data suggests that the pattern may be shifting in a positive direction. Crypto criminals seem to have been taking it a bit easy so far this year. According to Chai...
by COINS NEWS - 1 year ago
Illicit Finance and Other Key Risks of Digital Assets: Keynote at City Week 2023 CFTC Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero in London Source: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/oparomero8 Highlights: "The CFTC will aggressi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The attack on Latitude Financial is Australia’s biggest cyber attack with driver's license numbers, passports and financial documents among the stolen information. The...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The hack on Latitude Financial is Australia’s biggest cyberattack, with driver’s license numbers, passports and financial documents among the stolen information. The A...
by COINS NEWS - 1 year ago
As per the title, which is based on Chainalysis' Crypto Crime Report. Ransomware is a type of malware, or malicious software, that locks up a victim's data or computing device and threatens to keep it locked — or worse — unless the vict...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Russian marketplaces on the dark web have continued to operate despite Western sanctions and efforts to shut them down, according to a report accessing the illicit blockchain space amid the world’s “first crypto war.” Ransomware actors and high-risk...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
A Russian national accused of processing cryptocurrency payments from ransomware attacks has pleaded guilty to money laundering in the United States. The man who was extradited from the Netherlands in mid-August, last year, will be sentenced in April...
Bitcoin News / Google News Bitcoin - 1 year ago
Daily Crunch: Bitcoin-demanding cybercriminals use bug from 2021 to initiate global ransomware attack& & TechCrunch
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Law enforcement authorities from over a dozen countries in Europe and North America have taken part in disrupting the activities of the Hive ransomware group, the U.S. Justice Department and Europol announced. Hive is believed to have targeted variou...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The group is known to have targeted critical infrastructure, healthcare providers and more over the past two years. According to United States Federal Bureau of Invest...