Scams, Schemes and Hacks

A hacker successfully cracks decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Cover Protocol en route to printing 40 quintillion COVER tokens and decimating the supply. In a...

The CEO of crypto hardware wallet maker Ledger has posted a letter to hundreds of thousands of customers whose personal information was stolen in...

In his final days in office, US President Donald Trump is reportedly considering whether he should grant clemency to Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht....

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) says that a nation-state hacker group is using crypto mining malware and other advanced tools to cover up...

Analysts and influencers are reacting to reports that China has seized $4.2 billion in crypto connected to one of the largest scams in the...

A new report from the crypto intelligence company CipherTrace shows that crime in the cryptocurrency space is on the decline, while the booming decentralized...

Crypto analyst and influencer Tyler Swope suspects the US government is accumulating Bitcoin seized from some of the world's most notorious darkweb criminals. Swope...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says the conviction of a former Microsoft engineer who tried to use Bitcoin to hide nefarious activities shows crypto...

Crypto exchange KuCoin has lost almost $200 million worth of cryptocurrencies in Ethereum, Bitcoin, Litecoin, XRP, Bitcoin Satoshi Vision, Stellar, TRON, and Tether...

The US Internal Revenue Service says it's ready to give a cash reward of $625,000 to anyone who cracks Monero (XMR) and other...