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The most urgent crypto scam news on Capitol Hill arrived Tuesday as the House Homeland Security Committee held a joint subcommittee hearing on how transnational criminal organizations use crypto fraud, online scams, and digital extortion to steal from Americans. Crypto…
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North Korean-linked operators have spent years quietly integrating into crypto firms and DeFi teams, raising fresh concerns about insider risk after a string of high-value exploits tied to the country’s cyber apparatus. Security researcher and MetaMask developer Taylor Monahan said…
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Elon Musk’s X is rolling out a security feature that will automatically lock any account that mentions cryptocurrency for the first time — requiring additional verification before posting resumes — a direct response to a wave of account hijacking campaigns…
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U.S. prosecutors have moved forward with charges against a Maryland resident accused of carrying out two exploits that drained more than $54 million from the decentralized finance platform Uranium Finance. Court filings unsealed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the…
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A UK resident has accused his estranged wife of stealing over 2,323 Bitcoin from a Trezor hardware wallet, allegedly using a security camera to capture his seed phrase and wallet access codes. A court judgment filed in the UK’s High…
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French authorities have arrested multiple suspects in connection with the kidnapping of a magistrate and her mother in a case prosecutors say involved a cryptocurrency ransom plot. Crypto kidnapping sparks nationwide police operation in France The Lyon public prosecutor’s office…
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Two routine copy-and-paste actions erased $62 million in crypto over December and January, exposing how basic wallet habits are becoming one of Ethereum’s biggest security risks. ScamSniffer said in a post on X on Feb. 8 that one victim lost…
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Saga has paused its SagaEVM chain following a smart contract exploit that resulted in the loss of approximately $7 million in bridged assets. Saga has halted its SagaEVM chain after bridged assets were lost due to a smart contract exploit.…
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Stephanie Talamantez, former FBI Special Agent and now Senior Managing Director at Guidepost Solutions, shares her insights on the latest crypto fraud trends, how illicit funds are traced, compliance gaps and more.
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A Canadian scammer masquerading as a support executive from crypto exchange Coinbase has stolen over $2 million in crypto from unsuspecting users. An investigation led by independent on-chain sleuth ZachXBT has uncovered a sophisticated social engineering scheme where the fraudster…
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An Ethereum wallet linked to the Indexed Finance and KyberSwap exploits resurfaced after a year of silence, selling more than $2 million in tokens. An Ethereum address tied to past decentralized finance exploits moved more than $2 million worth of…
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USPD is facing a severe security breach after an attacker quietly gained control of its proxy contract months ago and used that access to mint new tokens and drain funds. USPD disclosed the incident on Dec. 5, saying the exploit…
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Yearn Finance has taken its first major step toward repairing the damage from its recent yETH exploit after securing a partial recovery. Yearn Finance has recovered $2.4 million from the $9 million yETH exploit that hit the protocol at the…
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Yearn Finance is dealing with a fresh security breach after an attacker exploited its yETH token contract and drained millions in ETH and liquid staking assets from Balancer pools. The incident unfolded late on Nov. 30 when an attacker triggered…
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A new proposal on Balancer’s governance forum sets the stage for how the protocol plans to handle the next phase of its recovery effort. Balancer has outlined a reimbursement plan that would return roughly $8 million in rescued assets to…
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Hinkal’s Invisible Wallet enables private transactions on decentralized apps, and is fully DeFi compatible. In a press release shared with crypto.news, Hinkal, a blockchain privacy-focused company incubated at Stanford and Binance MVB, has unveiled the Invisible Wallet aimed at giving…
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