Security

Vernon and Mikhail McCreath received 192 and 140 months in prison for a fraud ring that targeted churches, charities, schools, and small businesses across the U.S.

Federal prosecutors in Boston filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking $456,602 in USDT tied to romance-and-investment scams that defrauded three victims.

NEAR AI suspended its cloud inference service after discovering unauthorized access to internal systems, but says customer workloads remained isolated in hardware-based trusted execution environments.

OpenAI has introduced Control Room, a system that can cut off an AI research experiment's access to model output, following incidents where models acted beyond their instructions.

Security firm SlowMist says a cracked TradingView Premium build promoted on X is Windows malware that steals browser logins, crypto wallet data, and Telegram information.

Elliptic reports that North Korean hackers behind the $6.4 billion Binance heist are using newly minted memecoins on NEAR, Tron, and Solana to launder stolen funds, a technique that slows tracing rather than hides it.

Elliptic reports that North Korean launderers created disposable meme coins on Tron, Solana, and Near to obscure the trail of funds from the roughly $6.3 billion Binance hack, as stolen assets converted to bitcoin reache...

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic says hackers routed about $430,000 through six newly launched tokens on NEAR, using liquidity pools to move stolen funds between wallets.

Elliptic finds that North Korea's launderers are creating disposable meme coins and swapping stolen Binance funds through decentralized exchange liquidity pools to obscure the onchain trail.

Crypto investor Evan Luthra claims five masked men forced him to transfer over $2 million in cryptocurrency during a 30-minute kidnapping in Oxford last November.

Treasury designated four individuals and 41 entities accused of supporting the Prince Group transnational criminal organization, plus a Malaysian national said to run a separate scam network based in Madagascar.

LND releases v0.20.7-beta and v0.21.6-beta turn off Multipath TCP listeners by default, closing one demonstrated attack route, but operators remain exposed to a critical Linux kernel vulnerability unless they patch the h...

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic reports that North Korean hackers used six meme coins, including one featuring Elon Musk, to launder about $430,000 in stolen NEAR from the $6.4 billion Binance hack.

Binance's pledge to cover user losses from its $6.3 billion hack helped contain fallout across crypto markets, analysts told Cointelegraph.

Chainalysis has brought its Reactor, KYT and Address Screening services back online with enhanced security measures, while its Investigations API and Rapid Lookup remain under maintenance following a security incident th...

CertiK's research identified five digital asset security incidents in the UAE in 2026, with four causing about $8.02 million in documented losses, highlighting risks beyond licensing.

Solana developers want to deprecate durable nonces, the transaction feature exploited in the April Drift hack that drained at least $270 million.

Crypto investor Evan Luthra says five masked men kidnapped and assaulted him in Oxford, England, stealing more than $2 million in digital assets in about 30 minutes. Nearly $1 million has been recovered, and one suspect ...

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed an indictment against three foreign nationals accused of using AI to impersonate executives and lawyers, tricking companies into wiring millions.

Crypto investor Evan Luthra says five masked men forced him to transfer over $2 million in crypto during a kidnapping in Oxford, and that a delay in contacting exchanges cost him more.