Scams, Schemes and Hacks

The former chief executive of an investment firm has been sentenced to two years in prison for a “cherry-picking” scheme involving crypto derivatives. In...

The company behind the crypto hardware wallet Trezor says some of its customers are at risk of phishing attacks following a security incident that...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission says JPMorgan Chase will pay an $18 million fine for actively working to stop customers from reporting illegal...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) says it is taking legal action against a "bogus" crypto exchange for allegedly defrauding investors using a...

Hackers hit the crypto exchange giant HTX with a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) on Friday morning, causing a brief outage. A DDoS...

Crypto exchange Binance’s legal defense against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reportedly been delayed due to heavy snowfall. According to a...

Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis says the volume of illicit transactions in the crypto space significantly dropped in 2023, marking a shift in the rising...

Top stablecoin USDT is the method of choice for money launderers and fraudsters in East and Southeast Asia, according to the United Nations Office...

What appeared to be a large transfer of XRP was later tied to a bad actor attempting to hack into crypto exchange Bitfinex. According...

The Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Homeland Security are looking into...