1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (713+ words) The approach appears designed to bypass tighter screening of applicants suspected of being directly linked to North Korea. Foreign workers can handle interviews and other early stages of recruitment before positions are transferred to North Korean operatives once employment contracts…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (748+ words) Mexican authorities are investigating a clandestine cryptocurrency mining operation in Puebla state as part of a wider inquiry into whether organized criminal groups are using mining infrastructure to generate or launder illicit funds. The operation was discovered in the Sierra…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (448+ words) Sam Bankman-Fried has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out his fraud conviction and cancel the $11 billion a court ordered him to forfeit, the last stage of his direct appeal. The former crypto billionaire filed the petition on Thursday, seeking…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (563+ words) What makes this attack more dangerous than ordinary phishing is that it defeats the standard advice given to wallet owners. The usual tell, a lookalike sender address, is absent here, because the message genuinely came from Trezor’s own mailing system....

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (436+ words) Federal agents traced approximately $220,000 in Bitcoin across three darknet marketplaces to a vendor accused of selling counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with nitazenes, synthetic opioids that match or surpass fentanyl in potency, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (744+ words) Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean citizen who lived in Miami, has pleaded guilty to a federal racketeering conspiracy tied to an international social-engineering operation that stole and laundered more than $245 million in cryptocurrency. Lam entered the guilty plea Tuesday, according…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (514+ words) Singaporean Suspect in $240M Bitcoin Theft Set to Plead Guilty After $569K Nightclub Spend FinanceFeeds Singaporean Suspect in $240M Bitcoin Theft Set to Plead Guilty After $569K Nightclub Spend A 22-year-old Singaporean accused of helping steal more than $240 million in Bitcoin is set to…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (737+ words) Polish prosecutors have charged a former business partner of missing BitBay founder Sylwester Suszek as authorities deepen their investigation into the collapse of the crypto exchange later known as Zondacrypto. The suspect, identified as Roman Ż., was detained on Sept....

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (810+ words) Chilean crypto exchange Orionx has begun a permanent shutdown after a forensic audit identified more than $7 million in customer assets that had allegedly moved to wallets outside the company’s control. The exchange said withdrawals have been temporarily suspended while it…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (679+ words) The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network identified about $12.7 billion in financial activity tied to suspected cryptocurrency investment scams operated by overseas scam centers, showing the scale at which organized fraud networks are using digital assets to move money. FinCEN…...