North Korea Cryptocurrency Report Urges Southeast Asia To...
A new report into the alleged use of cryptocurrency by North Korea claims the whole of Southeast Asia is “vulnerable” to state actors. RUSI: North Korea Has ‘Gone To...
Pure Bit Bamboozles Investors in $2.7 Million ICO Exit Scam
Pure Bit lured investors in with promises of a rewarding ICO then mysteriously vanished, taking 13,000 worth of ETH with them. There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute The South Korean...
Young Man Waterboarded and Waxed by ‘Friends’ Who Wanted...
A main rule of crypto ought to be ‘don’t tell your friends you have crypto.’ One man violated this unspoken rule and paid a rather gruesome price. The Kid Is an Easy...
Cryptocurrency Scam Case Reaches a Dead End in Mumbai
Roughly a year ago, Mumbai police accused the founder of ATC Coin Ltd. of running a cryptocurrency scam. Now the case has gone cold after police remain unable to locate any of the...
Sneaky Hacker Gets Some Serious Booty From Spankchain
Lax security measures have caused the adult entertainment platform SpankChain to lose $38,000 in ETH. A Pirate Made Off With a Handful of Booty Stealing tips from strippers is nearly...
Europol: Terrorists Still Use Banks, Fail To Abuse Cryptocurrencies
A new assessment by Europol this week reveals a growing schism between the use of cryptocurrencies by terrorists and other criminals. No European Terrorist Attacks Leveraged Crypto...
Negotiating Bitcoin Ransomware With Cyber-Criminals as a Service
Despite oft-repeated advice to never pay in response to a ransomware attack, the reality is that this is not always a possibility. However, the desire to pay as little as possible...
Thailand Braces for Growing Wave of Cryptocurrency-Related...
Criminal activity involving cryptocurrencies in the country of Thailand remains low, but it is expected to soar. This is according to a recent study that has highlighted the rise in...
Indian Authorities Nab High-Profile Bitcoin Scammers
As India still remains uncertain regarding its regulatory framework for digital currency operations, a number of high-profile fraud cases involving Bitcoin have come to light. Police...
Cryptocurrency Malware Infects Over 200,000 Mikrotik Routers
A cryptojacking campaign has affected over 200,000 routers made by Mikrotik, the Latvian networking company. A Months-Old Vulnerability Exploited Security researchers recently mapped...
Stealing Cryptocurrency is Easy! $1.1B Already Stolen in 2018
$1.1 billion in cryptocurrency has already been stolen in 2018 — as the malware industry continues to grow and provide less-than-tech-savvy users with the ability to easily and...
‘Don’t Be Greedy’: Cryptocurrency Scammers &...
You think your losses from hodling been bad this year? Odds are, they pale in comparison to losses accrued from hacks and scams. A Bull Run for Crypto Scammers According to data shared...