Scams, Schemes and Hacks

Bitcoin Gold, Verge and Monacoin were all hacked in a single week. The wave of attacks left cryptocurrency exchanges $20 million lighter in customer...

The US and Canada have announced the launch of "Operation Cryptosweep" to combat crypto investment schemes. In the largest joint effort to date, securities regulators...

The rising popularity of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology has brought many benefits to the world; however, this hasn’t come without a few down sides. Along...

One of the biggest money laundering scandals of the year doesn't involve Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies. Dutch banking giant Rabobank is in hot water over...

The team behind popular Bitcoin wallet service Electrum says it's identified rogue lines of code on a bogus copycat called "Electrum Pro" that steal Bitcoin. Electrum...

Digital asset exchange OKEX announced today that it suspended deposits of all ERC-20 tokens "due to the discovery of a new smart contract bug -...

MyEtherWallet – a popular wallet generator for Ethereum and Ethereum-based tokens – has confirmed it was hacked early this morning. According to the blockchain explorer...

A recent crawl of more than 175 million websites found active cryptocurrency mining scripts on 23,872 unique domains. That's about 1 in every 7,300 sites....

The FBI just sent a shout-out to cryptocurrency investors and consumers, warning about a surge in tech support scams. The scammers are pretending to...

Welcome to the Wild World of Cryptocurrency Scams Cryptocurrency has long been able to escape the grip of regulators, and even with numerous entities...