Security

Ethereum staking protocol Swell paused deposits and withdrawals for swETH and rswETH on Friday after both tokens reported inflated exchange rates. The team confirmed no funds have left the contracts but has not disclosed...

Mercedes Reshard New, known online as 'Shawty Dred,' faces 46 counts of mail fraud and other charges after allegedly stealing over $4 million in food assistance benefits through more than 350 fraudulent accounts.

Italian authorities arrested 30 people and moved to seize €21 million in assets after alleging an underground bank linked to organized crime sent about €68 million overseas using digital assets.

A 30-country operation identified over $39 billion in fraud-linked digital assets and secured $12 billion in tokenized transfers during a three-month international enforcement campaign.

New York's Attorney General filed a motion on October 22 seeking $1.37 billion from cryptocurrency investment company NovaTech and its founders following a 2025 default ruling on liability. More than 11,000 New Yorkers r...

Zheng Zhao, 44, was extradited from the Netherlands and arraigned in Los Angeles on charges related to a scheme that allegedly defrauded at least 174 American victims of over $36.9 million through fake crypto trading pla...

The FBI announced Operation Blackout, a coordinated effort to dismantle overseas scam compounds that target U.S. citizens, seizing over $17 billion and arresting hundreds of suspects.

The modular blockchain platform Initia halted its network Friday following a security incident that allowed an attacker to mint approximately $2.7 million in unauthorized tokens before the chain was paused.

A federal court ruled that there was insufficient evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the LIBRA token collapse, exonerating President Javier Milei, his sister Karina Milei, and nine others accused in the token's launch.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is pursuing a $1.37 billion judgment against the operators of NovaTech and AWS Mining, two cryptocurrency investment schemes that allegedly defrauded hundreds of thousands of inves...

A federal judge dismissed charges against President Javier Milei and others in connection with a memecoin that caused investors roughly $251 million in losses, finding insufficient evidence of criminal conduct.

The layer-1 blockchain halted operations after an attacker exploited a vulnerability to mint unauthorized tokens and transfer millions in crypto to Ethereum.

Bitcoin Core has revised its vulnerability disclosure policy to handle bugs that AI systems can easily find, moving away from long embargoes toward faster patching and public advisories.

Bitcoin Core has revised its security policy to accelerate fixes for vulnerabilities that large language models can readily identify, ending extended embargoes for this category of bugs.

Two men have been charged with running investment schemes that allegedly defrauded investors of nearly $2 million by promising returns up to 16 times their initial investment within three months.

An attacker exploited an "infinimint" vulnerability on Initia's modular blockchain on October 23, 2026, minting tokens without limits and converting approximately $2.6 million worth to other assets before discovery.

Josiah Kennedy, a former Citizens Bank vice president in Abilene, is accused of unauthorized withdrawals and improper charges totaling $193,810.90, according to an affidavit.

Law enforcement from 21 countries arrested 1,462 suspects and disrupted over 10,900 malicious networks in Operation Serengeti III, which targeted ransomware, investment fraud, and crypto-enabled crimes across Africa.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is pursuing $1.37 billion in damages from NovaTech founders Cynthia and Eddy Petion, claiming the crypto and forex platform operated a Ponzi scheme that defrauded over 11,000 New Y...

DFINITY founder Dominic Williams claims NEAR Protocol used stolen proprietary technology to develop NEAR Intents, its cross-chain execution platform, and employed a former DFINITY employee in the process.