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He taught cops how to fight crypto crime. Now he's accused of running a $100 million dark web drug market.
Until recently, Lin Rui-siang taught cops how to beat cybercrime. He was arrested this week in conn…
Joshua Zitser
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Bitcoin trader loses almost $70 million after sending crypto to wrong online account address
A bitcoin trader lost nearly $70 million after criminals tricked them into sending crypto to a fake…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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US sting operation catches crypto firms 'wash trading' to boost token values
Federal prosecutors set up a fake company to bust four crypto market makers, who they say artificia…
Kelly Cloonan
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Americans are losing more money to crypto scams than ever
Americans lost $5.6 billion to cryptocurrency scams in 2023, a 45% increase, the FBI said.
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Jamie Dimon calls bitcoin a 'fraud' and a 'Ponzi scheme' and says the crypto is hopeless as a currency
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon just launched another scathing attack on the biggest crypto and said bitco…
Theron Mohamed
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Cyber gangs got away with a record $1.1 billion in crypto ransom payments in 2023
The rise of "ransomware as a service" means less tech skill is required to carry out an attack, Cha…
Yuheng Zhan
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Conspiracy theory-fueled newspaper Epoch Times grew revenue 4x thanks to CFO's crypto crime proceeds, feds say
Federal prosecutors say Bill Guan, an executive at Trump-friendly news outlet the Epoch Times, laun…
Jack Newsham
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North Korean hackers are getting away with a lot less crypto even as theft attempts rise
Among the 20 hacks by North Korean-affiliated cybercriminals last year, the total amount of crypto …
Yuheng Zhan
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Former Chinese takeaway worker jailed for money laundering after police seized 61,000 bitcoins — currently worth $4 billion
Authorities were alerted when the British-Chinese woman attempted to buy London properties valued a…
Nathan Rennolds
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Legendary investor Charlie Munger trashed crypto as worthless and vile in one of his final interviews – and blasted coin promoters as deluded 'scumballs'
Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's late business partner, eviscerated crypto and its touters during o…
Theron Mohamed
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Investing icon Charlie Munger hailed Costco, slammed crypto, and ridiculed Russia in one of the last interviews of his life. Here are the 20 best quotes.
Warren Buffett's late business partner, Charlie Munger, shared some key investing lessons and tackl…
Theron Mohamed
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A crypto data leak led the FBI to America's most wanted sex trafficking fugitive. Now, the victims want his bitcoins.
Michael Pratt was on the run for three years until a data leak involving crypto wallets he'd bought…
Laura Italiano
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Sam Bankman-Fried donated millions to 'weed out anti-crypto' politicians, new evidence says
Sam Bankman-Fried funneled $100 million in political donations through FTX executives which was int…
Pete Syme
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Bitcoin's fair value is zero, and the latest boom will spark 'massive' collateral damage, ECB says
The ECB slammed bitcoin, describing the approval of spot ETFs in the US as "the naked emperor's new…
Yuheng Zhan
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Bitcoin scam case: ED attaches assets worth over Rs 97 cr of Raj Kundra, Shilpa Shetty
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached immovable and movable properties worth Rs 97.79 crore…
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A crypto entrepreneur splurged millions of dollars in client funds on a billion-year old space diamond, rare Rolexes and a Ferrari, SEC says
Richard Schueler, aka Richard Heart, used millions of dollars in customer funds to buy "exorbitant …
Joseph Wilkins
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WazirX receives 1023 requests for data from law enforcement in October-March 2022
WazirX receives almost three times more requests for data from law enforcement in October-March 202…
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Germany seizes $25 million in bitcoin as it shuts down a Russian-language darknet marketplace for illegal drugs
Roughly 17 million customers and more than 19,000 seller accounts were registered on the Hydra dark…
Carla Mozée
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Meet the crypto 'Bonnie and Clyde': A TikTok rapper who calls herself the 'Crocodile of Wall Street' and her husband 'Dutch'. We look at their alleged links to the Bitfinex hack.
Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan behaved as if in a spy novel, the DOJ said in allegations they…
Shalini Nagarajan
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The EU wants its new financial crime watchdog to supervise crypto as it cracks down on money laundering: report
"It is key that the scope of the new EU authority explicitly includes crypto assets," a EU lawmaker…