Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao

President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who pleaded guilty to a money laundering charge in 2023, the White House said Thursday. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that Trump “exercised his constitutional authority Read More …

UK Government Wants to Keep $7 Billion in Stolen Bitcoin It Has Seized

The U.K. Government is seeking to keep most of the $7 billion in Bitcoin it seized in connection with a Chinese investment fraud, following the conviction of the fraud’s alleged organizer this week. Zhimin Qian pleaded guilty on counts of Read More …

FBI: Fictitious Law Firms Targeting Cryptocurrency Scam Victims Combine Multiple Exploitation Tactics While Offering to Recover Funds

This updated advisory provides additional red flag indicators and due diligence measures to help victims who have been in contact with fictitious law firms conducting this fraudulent activity. This scheme combines a number of exploitation tactics including targeting vulnerable populations, Read More …

Arkham Says $3.5B LuBian Bitcoin Theft Went Undetected for Nearly Five Years

A crypto wallet tied to a little-known Chinese mining pool may have been the victim of the largest bitcoin theft ever recorded, according to new findings from Arkham Intelligence. n an Aug. 2 thread on X, the onchain analytics firm Read More …

‘Pig butchering’ scams have stolen billions from people around the world.

At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud and human trafficking erupted on Chinese social media. It started when a Chinese actor called Wang Xing was tricked into travelling to Thailand for an audition, where he was abducted by criminals Read More …

SparkKitty, SparkCat’s little brother: A new Trojan spy found in the App Store and Google Play

In January 2025, Kaspersky researchers uncovered the SparkCat spyware campaign, which was aimed at gaining access to victims’ crypto wallets. The threat actor distributed apps containing a malicious SDK/framework. This component would wait for a user to open a specific Read More …

Hackers steal and destroy millions from Iran’s largest crypto exchange

Iran’s largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, said Wednesday that it was hacked and funds have been drained from its hot wallet. In a statement on its website translated by TechCrunch, Nobitex said it detected unauthorized access to its infrastructure and hot Read More …

Chasing Eddies: New Rust- based InfoStealer used in CAPTCHA campaigns

Elastic Security Labs has uncovered a novel Rust-based infostealer distributed via Fake CAPTCHA campaigns. This malware is hosted on multiple adversary-controlled web properties. This campaign leverages deceptive CAPTCHA verification pages that trick users into executing a malicious PowerShell script, which Read More …

FBI: Infrastructure Used to Manage Domains Related to Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud Scams between October 2023 and April 2025

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this FLASH to disseminate indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with malicious cyber activities linked to Funnull Technology Inc. (Funnull). Funnull is a Philippines-based company which provides computer infrastructure for thousands of websites Read More …

Scattered Spider snared financial orgs before targeting shops in Britain, America

Scattered Spider snared financial services organizations in its web before its recent spate of retail attacks in the UK and US, according to Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42. “We saw several instances in the financial services space, and now we’re Read More …