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Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Two men broke into a home in Durham, North Carolina with guns and forced the couple living there to transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto to them. The men were armed handguns and allegedly used zip ties to restrain the pair. Durham Is the Focus in New Crypto Crime The man and the women were both...

It has happened again, folks. Another big crypto-related crime has been added to the books, and this time, the lost figures are more than what could have ever been anticipated. Two brothers that opened a crypto exchange in Africa known as Africrypt have made off with more than three and a half billion dollars in customers’ digital money. Africrypt May Be the Biggest Crypto Theft in History The brothers – known as Ameer Cajee and Raees Cajee – founded the cryptocurrency...

For people out there that don’t believe in karma, perhaps the following story will change their minds. Reginald Middleton – a man who was charged with crypto fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2019 and forced to pay a $1 million fine – had his phone hacked and much of his crypto stash stolen by cyberthieves.Reginald Middleton Is the Latest SIM-Swapping VictimMiddleton was accused of stealing millions of dollars from investors after they pledged money to his company...

Telegram is once again in the news, only this time, it doesn’t have to do with some fancy new partnership. The encrypted chap application is being used by hackers looking to potentially steal cryptocurrency.Telegram Has Had Its Ups and DownsThe thefts are occurring through a new form of malware known as the Masad Stealer, which searches through internet cookies, browser passwords and clipboard data. Hackers in charge can replace with data of their own, i.e. bitcoin or cryptocurrency addresses...