Tag Archives: Security & Ransomware

Several individuals have been arrested on charges relating to three separate instances of crypto fraud, one of which may have involved the largest non-fungible token (NFT) scam to date. As much as $130 million in digital funds are likely to have been stolen. Why Is Crypto Fraud So Common? One of the individuals charged with crypto fraud includes 26-year-old Le Anh Tuan of Vietnam. She was charged in California with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and...

Chainalysis – a known blockchain analysis company – has partnered with Cellebrite DI, a global leader in digital intelligence solutions to assist customers and help them identify criminal crypto activity. Chainalysis Is Looking to Uncover More Crime The goal is to ensure resolutions happen and happen quickly. The crypto space has become synonymous with crime in recent years, with recent examples of illicit activity including hacks on the Harmony exchange in Northern...

A former top executive with Open Sea – a leading distributor and designer of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) – has been arrested for crimes such as wire fraud, money laundering, and insider trading. Open Sea Head Faces Criminal Probe NFTs have become increasingly popular over the past two years. First introduced in 2020, NFTs represent partial ownership in larger commodities, such as original comic strips or a piece of art. For example, if one is selling an NFT of the Mona...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed charges against a company in South Africa and its head executive for allegedly running the biggest crypto-based Ponzi scheme in recorded history. It is believed the firm may have run a commodity pool composed of nearly $2 billion in bitcoin, though the pool is slated to have been fraudulent. It is also believed that the company violated registration protocols. A CFTC Investigation Is Underway The enterprise –...

Hackers in North Korea are once again making headlines. They are being blamed for the recent attack on a California-based crypto exchange called Harmony that ultimately resulted in more than $100 million in crypto funds vanishing overnight. Hackers in North Korea Labeled “Harmony Attackers” Three digital investigative firms have concluded that North Korea was at the center of the attack on Harmony. The money was stolen on the date of June 23 from a division known as...

2022 has been a rough year thus for crypto investors in the sense that bitcoin and many of its altcoin cousins have had a hard time keeping their prices stable. However, the year has also been difficult because thieves have become so prominent in the space. At the time of writing, it appears crypto thieves have stolen more than $1.2 billion in crypto funds in 2022, and we’re not even at the halfway point. Why Are Thieves So Prominent in the Crypto Industry? Mitchell...

Lazarus – the North Korean hacking group – is back in the news again today, this time because the organization is reportedly using apps to track those involved in the cryptocurrency space. Lazarus Is Doing Everything to Obtain Crypto Among the law enforcement agencies that have discovered this new activity from Lazarus are CISA, the US Treasury Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). All three organizations are now banding together as a means of...

Students are working hard to raise awareness of the growing world of crypto fraud after their teacher was scammed out of $5,000. Deon Wessel was ultimately looking for ways to fund his eventual retirement and came across a crypto scheme that sounded like cash in the bag. Unfortunately, it looks like the scheme has done nothing but empty his pockets even further. Deon Wessel Loses a Lot to Crypto Scammers Wessel was contacted by what appeared to be a legitimate crypto...

Crypto is very confusing to a lot of people according to Bryan Oglesby, a spokesperson for the Better Business Bureau (BBB). This is exactly why crypto has become such a powerful tool in ongoing fraud attempts and scams that regularly permeate the financial space. Bryan Oglesby On Crypto: It’s Rather Confusing In a recent statement, Oglesby claimed: Cryptocurrency is very confusing to a lot of consumers. Because there is all this confusion, scammers take this as an...

A crypto system known as Beanstalk has been infiltrated and ultimately lost more than $180 million in reserves. The hack occurred through unusual means in which an attacker used borrowed funds to garner the voting rights necessary to transfer all the money into his (or her) own personal account. Beanstalk Has Lost a Lot of Money On its website, Beanstalk is described as a “decentralized” asset that’s also a stable currency. While Beanstalk itself is the network in which...