World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto company co-owned by the Trump family, announced a partnership with a blockchain network called AB, less than a month after the US government sanctioned more than 140 people and entities tied to what it described as one of Asia’s largest criminal organizations. But according to the Wall Street Journal […]
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has identified 26 fraudulent cryptocurrency wallet applications on Apple’s App Store that are designed to steal users’ digital assets. The company’s Threat Research team found that the apps imitate popular crypto wallets, such as MetaMask, Ledger, Trust Wallet, Coinbase, TokenPocket, imToken, and Bitpie, by copying their names and visual branding to appear […]
Crypto commentator Scott Melker has said that a friend of his lost nearly $450,000 worth of Bitcoin after using a fake Ledger app from the Apple App Store. According to him, musician Garrett Dutton, also known as G. Love, lost 5.92 BTC that he had been acquiring since 2017 as part of a long-term safety […]
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has publicly called out BlockDAG Network (BDAG) for allegedly stealing more than $300 million from unsuspecting retail investors through scams that promise them unrealistic high gains. The warning was issued in response to a post by YouTube investigator Coffeezilla, who alerted his followers about a promoter that was running a similar scheme. […]
Britain’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has sanctioned the Chinese-language crypto marketplace Xinbi, which blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis says processed nearly $20 billion in volume between 2021 and 2025. The designation means that the UK government isn’t just targeting individual scammers but has taken aim at the financial infrastructure that keeps Southeast Asia’s industrial-scale […]
Tron founder Justin Sun has said that his team has built an AI system capable of identifying suspects in crypto fraud cases. He also said that he will put $100 million in rewards for anyone who helps bring the criminals to justice. What Sun Is Claiming In a March 26 post on X, Sun claimed […]
USR, an overcollateralized stablecoin natively backed by ETH and maintained by the Resolv protocol, lost its peg on March 22 after an attacker minted millions of unbacked tokens and reportedly extracted at least $25 million. Here’s how the incident went down, according to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. Attacker Exploits Minting Key to Create $80M in […]
The FBI has notified users on the Tron network about a fake token impersonating the agency. A post published on X by its New York field office on March 19 warned of a phishing campaign that tries to get people to give up their personal information and access to their wallets by pretending to be […]
Analysis of the 90 days before and after the December 3 Ethereum Fusaka upgrade indicates a steep rise in the number of address poisoning scams. Stablecoin transactions on Ethereum are among the biggest hits with this ever-rising problem. Dust Transfers Explode After Fee Reductions Researcher Wise Crypto says that dust attacks went up sharply all […]
Illicit activity accounts for only a small fraction of Australia’s cryptocurrency ecosystem, even as digital asset adoption continues to expand. According to the analysis by TRM Labs, less than 1% of the country’s total on-chain crypto activity between March 2025 and February 2026 was linked to illicit counterparties, which essentially highlights that the vast majority […]