Scams, Hacks & Breaches

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) says a routine traffic stop in Carson County led to the seizure of $200,000 in cash in...

Security experts at Microsoft have discovered malicious malware hiding in downloadable images of the late Kobe Bryant. Microsoft Security Intelligence says the software is...

Security researchers at the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken say they have cracked a popular crypto hardware wallet. Hardware wallets are physical devices that...

Wells Fargo's John Stumpf got hit with a lifetime ban from the banking industry in an unprecedented action by a US watchdog. The bank's...

Cyber thieves stole a total of $282,617,000 from cryptocurrency exchanges in 2019, according to a new report on crypto crime. The blockchain analytics firm...

A fintech firm that's challenging the $2-trillion industry of money laundering is using a cryptographically secure communication technology that allows banks to protect private...

Boaz "Bo" Manor, a convicted hedge fund scammer, has been charged with raising over $30 million from investors in an allegedly fraudulent initial coin...

A new class-action lawsuit against Amazon and its subsidiary, Ring Inc., claims cyber criminals are gaining access to Ring cameras and demanding Bitcoin (BTC)...

The project director of the Litecoin Foundation is warning the crypto-curious about an apparent scam on YouTube. David Schwartz says a YouTube channel posing...

The VeChain Foundation, an organization supporting the development of VeChain, a blockchain-based platform designed to improve supply chain management processes, was recently compromised. The...