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China’s Social Media Platforms And Marketplaces Get Flooded With Crypto Recruitment Links That Target Young Users

Social platforms popular with younger users, including Xiaohongshu, Taobao, and Xianyu, are being inundated with posts and ads that quietly funnel ordinary people into...

Indian Police Booked Celebrity Hairstylist Jawed Habib And His Son For Duping 150 People In Crypto Fraud

Police in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, have registered a fraud case after more than 150 people said they were cheated by promises of high crypto...

X(Twitter) Uncovers Bribery Network Tied To Crypto Scams, Law Enforcement Alerted

X(Twitter) announced on Friday that it has uncovered a network of users who paid middlemen to try to bribe company employees to reactivate suspended...

Hackers Drain $3.047M From Safe Wallet Through Fake Contract, Spotlighting Rise In Crypto Scams

Blockchain investigtor, Scam sniffer said a victim lost $3.047M USDC yesterday after a sophisticated attack that used a fake Request Finance contract on a...

California Man Sentenced To Prison For Over 4 Years For Laundering $36.9M In Global Crypto Scam

Shengsheng He, a California resident was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison for helping launder more than $36,900,000 stolen from victims of...

U.S. Banks Processed $312B In China-Linked Crypto And Other Suspicious Transfers, While Crypto Exchanges Continue To Face Hurdles

U.S. banks and other financial firms flagged $312 billion in suspicious transactions tied to Chinese money laundering networks from Jan 2020 through Dec 2024,...

North Korean IT Workers Exploited Over 30 Fake Identities To Hack Crypto Firms

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has discovered a complicated scheme where a group of six North Korean IT operatives used at least 31 false identities to...

Scammers Steal Over $1 Million From Crypto Users Using Fake MEV Trading Bot Contracts

Last week, SentinelLABS revealed that more than $1 million was stolen from crypto users through fake MEV (maximal extractable value) trading bots.  The scam used...

Ghana To License Crypto Platforms Under New Regulatory Framework

The Bank of Ghana announced that it plans to license cryptocurrency platforms by submitting a detailed regulatory framework to the Parliament by September.  The move...

UK FCA And Met Police Seize Seven Illegal Crypto ATMs, Arrest Two In London

Seven crypto ATMs were seized and two people were arrested on Thursday in southwest London after an operation targeting illegal cryptocurrency exchanges.  The UK Financial...

Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel Loses Over $10 Million In Crypto Seized By DEA, FBI in Miami

The Drug Enforcement Administration, along with the FBI, seized more than $10 million in crypto linked to the Sinaloa cartel during operations in Miami, Florida.  The...

Crypto Criminals Funnel Over $21 Billion Via Cross-Chain Tools in Massive 2-Year Surge in Illicit Transactions

A staggering $21.8 billion in illicit and high-risk cryptocurrency transactions have moved through cross-chain bridges. Also they have used decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and coin swap...