Security

Destinee Ruffin, 29, of Indianapolis, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and theft of mail after stealing thousands of checks from the mail and selling them to co-conspirators.

Patrick Steven Yaroch admitted to using confidential credentials from 35 FBI investigations to steal $2.47 million in cryptocurrency, then laundering the funds to pay debts and plan a move to Portugal.

A 23-year-old crypto holder in Vendée, France, was sentenced to 30 months in prison after firing a Glock at men he said were trying to force their way into his father's home, in an incident the prosecutor described as re...

Blockchain data firm Bitquery traced at least $4 million in USDT thefts across 365 TRON addresses, but only one theft matches a published iPhone-owner account, as Trust Wallet urges iOS updates.

TRM Labs attributes the $6.36 billion Binance theft to North Korea and urges governments to go on the offensive, as the industry freezes up to $3 billion and Binance pledges to cover losses.

Nym unveiled a mixnet SDK at Devcon 8 that lets wallets and dapps route HTTP(S) and gRPC traffic through its 5-hop network, hiding IP addresses and timing patterns without a separate VPN.

Gnosis Pay reported unauthorized access to its legacy consumer card system on Nov. 3, exposing payment card details, personal information, and crypto wallet addresses. The company says customer funds and its enterprise p...

TRM Labs' Ari Redbord says the $6.3 billion Binance hack prompted an unprecedented industry response, but warns that attacks from North Korea will continue without offensive action.

A flaw in Reth's legacy state-root calculation prompted coordinated patches for Reth, Optimism, Base, and Tempo, though no user funds were reported stolen.

Danilo Pesce pleaded guilty to fourth-degree grand larceny after taking pension payments meant for his deceased neighbor, Jack Lee Morgan, for over three years.

Gnosis Pay has reported a data breach that exposed customer information, including personal and payment-related data, but confirmed that customer funds were not affected.

Patrick Steven Yaroch, a former FBI supervisory special agent, admitted to using seed phrases from 35 investigations to steal $2.47 million in digital assets.

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic reports that hackers linked to the record Binance theft have converted about 42 million XRP, worth roughly $50 million, mostly into bitcoin via THORChain.

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic says about half of the $6.43 billion stolen from Binance last month has yet to be laundered, with $3.11 billion still in addresses linked to the theft.

The Opentensor Foundation has introduced three post-quantum signing algorithms for TAO transfers, staking, and validator operations, though the feature is not yet live on mainnet.

The T3 Financial Crime Unit, involving Binance, Tether, Tron, and TRM Labs, reportedly shut down in August due to coordination issues, months before Binance suffered a $6.3 billion hack.

Security Alliance says North Korea-linked TraderTraitor gained access to Binance's systems about eight weeks before the $6.3 billion exploit on Oct. 29, citing similar multi-stage intrusion patterns in other crypto heist...

Federal Reserve and OCC staff called US banks on Monday about the $6.3 billion Binance hack, asking about unusual transactions and service disruptions. Banks are reviewing their own systems as Binance says it has not det...

Patrick Steven Yaroch admitted to wire fraud and money laundering after using classified credentials from 35 FBI investigations to steal cryptocurrency and fund a planned move to Portugal.

Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao is urging iPhone users to install the latest iOS updates following warnings that the DarkSword exploit can steal crypto wallet information through compromised websites.