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He taught cops how to fight crypto crime. Now he's accused of running a $100 million dark web drug market.
Until recently, Lin Rui-siang taught cops how to beat cybercrime. He was arrested this week in conn…
Joshua Zitser
Bitcoin trader loses almost $70 million after sending crypto to wrong online account address
A bitcoin trader lost nearly $70 million after criminals tricked them into sending crypto to a fake…
Kenneth Niemeyer
Jamie Dimon calls bitcoin a 'fraud' and a 'Ponzi scheme' and says the crypto is hopeless as a currency
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon just launched another scathing attack on the biggest crypto and said bitco…
Theron Mohamed
Conspiracy theory-fueled newspaper Epoch Times grew revenue 4x thanks to CFO's crypto crime proceeds, feds say
Federal prosecutors say Bill Guan, an executive at Trump-friendly news outlet the Epoch Times, laun…
Jack Newsham
Former Chinese takeaway worker jailed for money laundering after police seized 61,000 bitcoins — currently worth $4 billion
Authorities were alerted when the British-Chinese woman attempted to buy London properties valued a…
Nathan Rennolds
Cyber gangs got away with a record $1.1 billion in crypto ransom payments in 2023
The rise of "ransomware as a service" means less tech skill is required to carry out an attack, Cha…
Yuheng Zhan
North Korean hackers are getting away with a lot less crypto even as theft attempts rise
Among the 20 hacks by North Korean-affiliated cybercriminals last year, the total amount of crypto …
Yuheng Zhan
Legendary investor Charlie Munger trashed crypto as worthless and vile in one of his final interviews – and blasted coin promoters as deluded 'scumballs'
Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's late business partner, eviscerated crypto and its touters during o…
Theron Mohamed
Investing icon Charlie Munger hailed Costco, slammed crypto, and ridiculed Russia in one of the last interviews of his life. Here are the 20 best quotes.
Warren Buffett's late business partner, Charlie Munger, shared some key investing lessons and tackl…
Theron Mohamed
Bitcoin scam case: ED attaches assets worth over Rs 97 cr of Raj Kundra, Shilpa Shetty
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached immovable and movable properties worth Rs 97.79 crore…
Bitcoin's fair value is zero, and the latest boom will spark 'massive' collateral damage, ECB says
The ECB slammed bitcoin, describing the approval of spot ETFs in the US as "the naked emperor's new…
Yuheng Zhan
Sam Bankman-Fried donated millions to 'weed out anti-crypto' politicians, new evidence says
Sam Bankman-Fried funneled $100 million in political donations through FTX executives which was int…
Pete Syme
A crypto entrepreneur splurged millions of dollars in client funds on a billion-year old space diamond, rare Rolexes and a Ferrari, SEC says
Richard Schueler, aka Richard Heart, used millions of dollars in customer funds to buy "exorbitant …
Joseph Wilkins
'Pig-butchering' scams have netted criminals $75 billion in stolen crypto, study says
Pig-butchering scams involve sending a wrong-number text and then building trust with a victim, who…
Yuheng Zhan
WazirX receives 1023 requests for data from law enforcement in October-March 2022
WazirX receives almost three times more requests for data from law enforcement in October-March 202…
Germany seizes $25 million in bitcoin as it shuts down a Russian-language darknet marketplace for illegal drugs
Roughly 17 million customers and more than 19,000 seller accounts were registered on the Hydra dark…
Carla Mozée
Meet the crypto 'Bonnie and Clyde': A TikTok rapper who calls herself the 'Crocodile of Wall Street' and her husband 'Dutch'. We look at their alleged links to the Bitfinex hack.
Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan behaved as if in a spy novel, the DOJ said in allegations they…
Shalini Nagarajan
The Biden administration just rolled out recommendations for regulating crypto that signals potential for a digital dollar and tighter penalties to crack down on crime
The White House's new crypto framework said a central bank digital currency "has the potential to o…
Brian Evans
The EU wants its new financial crime watchdog to supervise crypto as it cracks down on money laundering: report
"It is key that the scope of the new EU authority explicitly includes crypto assets," a EU lawmaker…
Hamza Fareed Malik
A US government report urges tighter rules around crypto ATMs to clamp down on human trafficking and drug dealing
The GAO report pointed out a loophole in regulations that cover crypto ATMs that could aid illicit …