business / blockchain and cryptocurrency

Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Huione Guarantee, a gray market researchers believe is central to the online scam ecosystem, now includes a messaging app, stablecoin, and crypto exchange—while facilitating $24 billion in transactions.

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0000

He just untangled a $243 million bitcoin theft, what may be the biggest-ever crypto heist to target a single victim. And he has never shown his face.

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:02:20 +0000

The $4.4 billion in crypto is set to be the largest pile of criminal proceeds ever sold off by the US. The former IRS agent who seized the recording-breaking sum, meanwhile, languishes in a Nigerian jail cell.

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Matt Giles| Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0000

More than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims in likely the worst-ever crypto-focused serial extortion case of its kind in the US.

Credit to Author: Kim Zetter| Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 11:30:00 +0000

Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune.