Crypto scam mastermind gets 20 years for $73M pig butchering scheme
A US court sentenced Daren Li to 20 years in prison for leading a $73 million crypto pig butchering scam targeting American invest...
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Address Poisoning Scams Drain Millions as Crypto Attacks Surge
Crypto users lost tens of millions of dollars in January to address poisoning and signature phishing scams, as attackers exploited...
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Popular Tesla Investor Shares The Major Problem After Bitcoin Fell Below $70,000
Ross Gerber, a renowned Tesla investor and Co-founder of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management, has identified the prim...
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Address poisoning recently cost 2 victims over $62M alone: Scam Sniffer
Analysts have warned that Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade has made address poisoning cheaper, as malicious actors can carry out dust att...
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Why privacy coins often appear in post-hack fund flows
Privacy coins often appear after hacks, but they are only one link in a longer laundering chain that includes swaps, bridges and o...
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BlackRock’s IBIT Shatters Volume Records as $BMIC Targets Quantum Security Shift
What to Know: BlackRock’s IBIT reaching $10B in volume signals a massive transfer of Bitcoin from retail hands to institutional ho...
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Toobit Exchange Review 2026: Is This Platform Legit or a Scam?
Toobit is a global no-KYC crypto exchange that offers advanced trading features such as futures trading with 200x leverage, copy t...
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Is The $9B $BTC Whale Sale Driven by Quantum Fear? BMIC Offers The Shield
What to Know: $9B $BTC whale sale may signal early institutional de-risking from legacy encryption vulnerabilities ahead of quantu...
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Crypto.com Prediction Market Platform Unveiled While $BMIC ‘Future-proofs’ Investments
What to Know: Crypto.com is entering the prediction market space, validating the sector and bringing regulated binary options to r...
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Crypto Hacks Explode: $370 Million Stolen In January Alone: Researchers
The start of this year brought a hard reminder: people remain the weakest link. Reports note that roughly $370 million in crypto w...
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Crypto thieves, scammers plunder $370M in January: CertiK
The amount of crypto stolen in January is also a 214% increase from the month before, with a majority of the value lost due to a s...
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Crypto protocol CrossCurve under attack, $3M reportedly exploited
Crypto bridge CrossCurve has told users to pause interacting with its protocol while it conducts an investigation into a smart con...
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Step Finance treasury wallets breached, $27M in SOL drained as STEP crashes 90%
Solana-based DeFi platform Step Finance disclosed a treasury wallet breach that saw over $27 million in SOL moved onchain, sending...
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Why Shiba Inu Holders Should Look Forward To Sunday
Shiba Inu has spent recent weeks locked in a downward price action with bullish momentum fading and investor interest thinning wit...
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Bitstamp Review: Is This Exchange Truly Safe And Legit In 2026?
Bitstamp was one of the very first cryptocurrency exchanges (launched in 2011), and it has built a strong reputation over many yea...
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Binance Shifts $1B SAFU Fund to Bitcoin as Exchange Claims $6.7B in Scam Losses Stopped
Key Takeaways: Binance will transfer stable SAFU protection fund worth $1 billion to Bitcoin within 30 coming days This move along...
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Unclaimed Ethereum from The DAO hack to fund new security initiative: Griff Green
While The DAO has an “incredible” team that could build security projects themselves, they would rather focus on security distribu...
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Bybit made ‘slow but steady comeback’ in 2025 after massive hack: CoinGecko
Bybit‘s market share climbed in 2025, even after it was hacked for $1.5 billion, while trading volumes on the top 10 exchanges ros...
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