Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 20:49:25 +0000
From Russia to Iran, the feds have charged Binance with conducting well over $1 billion in transactions with sanctioned countries and criminal actors.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000
Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if they can get Thomas to let them.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 22:59:52 +0000
With a new emphasis on the Hamas attacks on Israel, the US Treasury has proposed designating foreign cryptocurrency “mixer” services as money launderers and national security threats.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000
Whoever looted FTX on the day of its bankruptcy has now moved the stolen money through a long string of intermediaries—and eventually some that look Russian in origin.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000
The same chaotic day FTX declared bankruptcy, someone began stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from its coffers. A WIRED investigation reveals the company’s “very crazy night” trying to stop them.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0000
A spy group working for the Kim regime has been feeding stolen coins into crypto mining services in an effort to throw tracers off their trail.
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Credit to Author: Eric Ravenscraft| Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Any mention of crypto was deliberately veiled at this year’s festival. And that strategy might catch on.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000
And according to tracing firm Chainalysis, one very prolific scammer ran at least 264 of those scams in 2022 alone.
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