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Credit to Author: Kim Zetter| Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 14:12:03 +0000
Tuesday’s verdict in the trial of Alexey Pertsev, a creator of crypto-privacy service Tornado Cash, is the first in a string of cases that could make it much harder to skirt financial surveillance.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000
Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it’s trained on—that aims to spot the “shape” of bitcoin money laundering.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 04:03:36 +0000
Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:48:55 +0000
An indictment against three Americans suggests that at least some of the culprits behind the theft of an FTX crypto fortune may be in custody.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Crypto tracing firm Chainalysis found that sellers of child sexual abuse materials are successfully using “mixers” and “privacy coins” like Monero to launder their profits and evade law enforcement.
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Credit to Author: Joel Khalili| Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:55:58 +0000
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is under pressure to explain itself after its X account was compromised, leading to wild swings in the bitcoin market.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 18:56:10 +0000
Binance’s settlement requires it to offer years of transaction data to US regulators and cops, exposing the company—and its customers—to a “24/7, 365-days-a-year financial colonoscopy.”
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