Scams, Schemes and Hacks

Crypto-related crime levels skyrocketed to an all-time high in 2021 – but that statistic doesn't paint a complete picture, according to Chainalysis. In a...

Authorities are revealing what the US government does with all the Bitcoin (BTC) and other crypto assets they seize from bad actors. In new...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is cracking down on criminals who seek to use cryptocurrency as a means of hiding their illicit gains....

Scammers have conned more than $7.7 billion worth of digital assets from investors in 2021, partly due to the emergence of a new kind...

The Twitter account of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi was reportedly compromised by bad actors in an effort to perpetrate a Bitcoin giveaway scam....

The founder and chief executive of BitMart is revealing that the global crypto exchange suffered a massive breach in security that enabled hackers to...

Tech industry titan Google is warning users that bad actors are illicitly using cloud computing servers to mine crypto. A new report by Google’s...

The creators of popular crypto asset Shiba Inu (SHIB) are issuing a warning to investors that scams involving the dog-themed meme coin are rapidly...

Scammers are using compromised YouTube accounts to steal millions of dollars in crypto from unsuspecting viewers, according to a new report. The cybersecurity firm...

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic says the rapidly expanding decentralized finance (DeFi) sector of the crypto world has seen fraudsters make off with billions of...