White hat helps recover $1.8M after $2.3M Foom Cash exploit
Foom Cash lost $2.26 million in an exploit tied to a Groth16 verifier misconfiguration, but a white hat recovered $1.84 million of...
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Crypto’s Quietest Month In Nearly A Year — But Hackers Haven’t Gone Away
February was unusually quiet for crypto thieves. After months of eye-watering losses, the industry recorded just $26.5 million in...
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‘A Scam’: Kalshi Might Face Legal Actions Regarding Iran’s Regime Change Market Resolution
While Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour explained that the company did not list markets tied to the death of any personality because it goe...
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Washington’s Crackdown on Southeast Asian Scam Centers Tops $580 Million in Crypto Seizures
Washington’s newest crypto-fraud crackdown is starting to put real numbers on a shadowy ecosystem that has quietly drained innocen...
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Mark Karpelès Proposes Bitcoin Hard Fork to Recover 79,956 BTC Stolen From Mt Gox
Mark Karpelès has proposed a Bitcoin hard fork to recover nearly 80,000 BTC tied to the 2011 Mt Gox hack — and the idea was swiftl...
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South Korea’s National Tax Service Publishes Seed Phrase Photo, Sparks Wallet Breach
South Korea’s National Tax Service (NTS) accidentally published a cryptocurrency wallet’s recovery phrase in a Feb. 26 press relea...
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Drained Accounts and Overseas Scammers: Why Minnesota May Pull the Plug on Crypto ATMs
Minnesota lawmakers are considering HF3642, a bill that would implement a statewide ban on Bitcoin ATMs to combat a surge in elder...
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Mt. Gox’s former CEO floats hard fork to recover 80K hacked Bitcoin
Mark Karpelès said it has been 12 years since the start of Mt. Gox’s bankruptcy proceedings and “this is probably the last sore po...
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Minnesota to weigh ban on crypto kiosks after scam reports
Representative Erin Koegel proposed a total ban on crypto ATMs in Minnesota, building on a 2024 state law that imposed restriction...
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CoinEx Review 2026: Is This Crypto Exchange Safe And Legit?
CoinEx is a leading crypto exchange platform that launched in 2017 and now supports more than 1,300 cryptocurrencies across spot,...
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Senator Blumenthal Demands Binance Records Over Alleged $1.7B Iran Sanctions Breach
A U.S. Senator has launched a formal Senate Homeland Security Committee inquiry into Binance following reports that the exchange f...
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OKX integrates Chainalysis Alterya for pre-withdrawal scam screening
Cryptocurrency exchanges are moving to block scam-linked transfers before funds leave their platforms as fraud losses continue to...
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Crypto Millions Finance Sale of Stolen US Trade Secrets, Treasury Says
The Treasury Department sanctioned a Russian exploit broker network accused of trafficking stolen U.S. trade secrets and governmen...
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Is MEXC Safe? Security, Privacy, and Risks Explained in 2026
MEXC is a leading global cryptocurrency exchange that operates as a centralized exchange using advanced security features to prote...
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Australian Cybercrime Squad Charges Man in $3.5 Million Crypto Scam
Australian detectives have dismantled a major investment scam that defrauded over 190 elderly and vulnerable victims of $3.5 milli...
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3 Solana platforms to shutter following devastating $40M hack
Solana DeFi aggregator Step Finance says it was “unable to secure a viable outcome” after a $40 million treasury wallet breach in...
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Uniswap founder slams scam crypto ads after victim 'lost everything'
Uniswap founder Hayden Adams highlighted a case where a victim lost a “mid-six-figure” portfolio to a fake top search result posin...
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Hacker returns $21M in Bitcoin stolen from South Korean authorities: Report
Local media reported that the stolen 320 Bitcoin was returned to a wallet controlled by authorities, with the unknown hacker seemi...
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