Son of government contractor arrested after alleged $46M crypto heist from US Marshals FBI and French GIGN swoop on Saint Martin, John Daghita in cuffs Security06 Mar 2026 | 6
South Korea’s tax office apologizes for leaking seed phrase to seized crypto Went from triumph at having busted tax dodgers to embarrassment at losing the proceeds Cyber-crime02 Mar 2026 | 5
China’s ‘The US hacks itself to make us look bad’ theorists return with a crypto conspiracy Apparently Uncle Sam busted Binance to shore up the dollar, balance the budget, and achieve world domination Legal27 Feb 2026 | 20
'Roaring cougars' lunched on OpenAI in Super Bowl ad battle, but ai.com wins the day Advertising search and web meters recorded site crashing traffic for ai.com Offbeat09 Feb 2026 | 8
Yes, backsies: Crypto exchange Bithumb claws back $40B in accidental payments to users New users promised $68, but briefly saw multi-million-dollar balances Offbeat09 Feb 2026 | 10
Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents Asia In Brief PLUS: China broadens cryptocurrency crackdown; Australian facial recognition privacy revisited; Singapore debuts electric VTOL; and more! Legal09 Feb 2026 | 5
Telcos aren't saying how they fought back against China's Salt Typhoon attacks Infosec In Brief PLUS: OpenClaw teams with VirusTotal; Crypto kidnappings in France; Critical vulns at SmarterMail; And more Security08 Feb 2026 | 3
South Korea enlists AI to spot pump and dump schemes on social media, or in Spam Main stock exchange targets shares, government agency looks for crypto crooks Public Sector03 Feb 2026 | 3
Former crypto-mining company building 430 MW datacenter in secret location for secret client Keeps location under wraps after communities opposed past projects Systems23 Jan 2026 | 8
India demands crypto outfits geolocate customers, get a selfie to prove they’re real Government is fed up with bad actors using digi-cash to fund dodgy deeds Public Sector13 Jan 2026 | 9
Bitfinex crypto thief who was serving five years thanks Trump for early release Netflix documentary part 2 in the works? Cyber-crime02 Jan 2026 | 21
Indian cops cuff ex-Coinbase rep over selling customer info to crims There's more where that came from, CEO says Cyber-crime29 Dec 2025 | 4
Crypto crooks co-opt stolen AWS creds to mine coins 'Within 10 minutes of gaining initial access, crypto miners were operational' Cyber-crime18 Dec 2025 | 3
Kim's crypto thieving reached a record $2B in 2025 ByBit attack doing some seriously heavy lifting Cyber-crime18 Dec 2025 | 8
FBI dismantles alleged $70M crypto laundering operation Justice Department claims unlicensed exchange funneled ransomware profits Cyber-crime18 Dec 2025 | 8
Crypto-crasher Do Kwon jailed for 15 years over $40bn UST bust Judge said his fraud was on 'epic, generational scale' Legal12 Dec 2025 | 24
Apache warns of 10.0-rated flaw in Tika metadata ingestion tool Infosec in Brief PLUS: New kind of DDOS from the Americas; Predator still hunting spyware targets; NIST issues IoT advice; And more! Security08 Dec 2025 | 7
Europol nukes Cryptomixer laundering hub, seizing €25M in Bitcoin Operation Olympia pulls Swiss servers offline and scoops up 12TB of data in latest crime infrastructure crackdown Cyber-crime02 Dec 2025 | 8
Korean web giant Naver acquired crypto exchange Upbit, which reported a $30m heist a day later Talk about buyer’s remorse Cyber-crime28 Nov 2025 | 6
Weaponized file name flaw makes updating glob an urgent job Infosec In Brief PLUS: CISA issues drone warning; China-linked DNS-hijacking malware; Prison for BTC Samourai; And more Security23 Nov 2025 | 10
Dutch turbine engineer tried to turn wind into crypto, ends up generating community service Techie wired cryptominers into Nordex's network while company reeled from cyberattack Offbeat18 Nov 2025 | 9
Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase Metropolitan Police lands lengthy sentence following 'complex' investigation Legal12 Nov 2025 | 36
Attackers dig up $11M in Garden Finance crypto exploit Bitcoin bridge biz offers 10 percent reward to attackers if they play nice Cyber-crime31 Oct 2025 | 4
Australian police building AI to translate emoji used by ‘crimefluencers’ Five Eyes intel alliance has created a team to target these scum who prey on kids Cyber-crime29 Oct 2025 | 19
Xubuntu downloads section injection threatens users with crypto infection Attempted exploit was a feeble effort to target Windows users Cybersecurity Month20 Oct 2025 | 2
Nork scammers work the blockchain to steal crypto from job hunters If someone sends you a coding test, be wary of downloading it Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2025 | 3
More packages poisoned in npm attack, but would-be crypto thieves left pocket change Miscreants cost victims time rather than money Cyber-crime09 Sep 2025 | 8
Crypto thief earns additional prison time for assaulting witness Remy Ra St Felix led a vicious international crime ring Cyber-crime26 Aug 2025 | 10
Someone's poking the bear with infostealers targeting Russian crypto developers If you wanted to hurt Putin’s ransomware racketeers, these info-stealing npm packages are one way to do it Security18 Aug 2025 | 4
P2P payment service Zelle sued for enabling payment fraud hell Infosec In Brief PLUS: Kryptos solution up for auction; Canadian parliament springs a leak; Fake crypto lawyers; And more Security17 Aug 2025 | 10
BtcTurk suspends operations amid alleged $49M hot wallet heist Turkish exchange is the latest victim of a recent spate of major crypto thefts Security14 Aug 2025 | 5
Crypto-crasher Do Kwon admits guilt over failed not-so-stablecoin that erased $41 billion Tells court 'What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct' Cyber-crime13 Aug 2025 | 18
BlackSuit ransomware crew loses servers, domains, and $1m in global shakedown US cops yank servers, domains, and crypto from the Russia-linked gang - but the crooks remain at large Cyber-crime12 Aug 2025 |
Trend Micro offers weak workaround for already-exploited critical vuln in management console Infosec In Brief PLUS: Crypto mixer founders plead guilty; Another French telco hacked; Meta fights WhatsApp scams; And more! Security10 Aug 2025 | 6
Mozilla flags phishing wave aimed at hijacking trusted Firefox add-ons Devs told to exercise 'extreme caution' with emails disguised as account update prompts Cyber-crime04 Aug 2025 | 7
Rampant emoji use suggests crypto-stealing NPM package was written by AI Kodane code was either machine-generated or done by a teenager AI + ML01 Aug 2025 | 27
CoreWeave's $9B Core Scientific acquisition is a bid for more power All the GPUs in the world aren't worth much if you don't have a place to put them On-Prem07 Jul 2025 | 4
It's 2025 and almost half of you are still paying ransomware operators Infosec in Brief PLUS: Crooks target hardware crypto wallets; Bad flaws in Brother printers; ,O365 allows takeover-free phishing; and more Security30 Jun 2025 | 2
Armored cash transport trucks allegedly hauled money for $190 million crypto-laundering scheme Asia In Brief PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and more Cyber-crime16 Jun 2025 | 3
Illicit crypto-miners pouncing on lazy DevOps configs that leave clouds vulnerable To stop the JINX-0132 gang behind these attacks, pay attention to HashiCorp, Docker, and Gitea security settings Security03 Jun 2025 | 6
Feds gut host behind pig butchering scams that bilked $200M from Americans Philippines company allegedly run by Chinese national has form running scams Security30 May 2025 | 14
DOGE worker's old creds found exposed in infostealer malware dumps Infosec in brief PLUS: Celsius scammer sent to slammer; Death-by-hacking victim warns you're never safe; and more Security12 May 2025 | 19
RSA cofounder: The world would've been better without cryptocurrencies RSAC Cryptographers' panel a bit gloomy this year Spotlight on RSAC29 Apr 2025 | 9
Bank of England flirts with offline digital dosh No signal? No problem. But also no solid commitment to Britcoin yet Software17 Apr 2025 | 44
Is Washington losing its grip on crypto, or is it a calculated pivot to digital dominance? Analysis It's been a very busy week for Digicash Donald's administration Security24 Mar 2025 | 17
FCC stands up Council on National Security to fight China in ways that CISA used to Infosec In Brief PLUS: Alleged Garantex admin arrested in India; Google deletes more North Korean malware Security16 Mar 2025 | 6
Crypto takes a dip as Trump signs Bitcoin Reserve order Comment With no allowance to sell and little room to buy, and markets on the slide, it's UB40 time: Red, red, whine Personal Tech07 Mar 2025 | 108
FBI officially fingers North Korea for $1.5B Bybit crypto-burglary Federal agents, open up ... your browsers and see if you recognize any of these wallets Cyber-crime27 Feb 2025 | 22
Bybit declares war on North Korea's Lazarus crime-ring to regain $1.5B stolen from wallet Up to $140M in bounty rewards for return of Ethereum allegedly pilfered by hermit nation Cyber-crime26 Feb 2025 | 14
Two arrested after pensioner scammed out of six-figure crypto nest egg The latest in a long line of fraud stings worth billions each year Security20 Feb 2025 | 18
Indian authorities seize loot from collapsed BitConnect crypto scam Devices containing crypto wallets tracked online, then in the real world Cyber-crime18 Feb 2025 | 13
Twin Google flaws allowed researcher to get from YouTube ID to Gmail address in a few easy steps Infosec In Brief PLUS: DOGE web design disappoints; FBI stops crypto scams; Zacks attacked again; and more! Security17 Feb 2025 | 13
Man who binned 7,500 Bitcoin drive now wants to buy entire landfill to dig it up More than a decade on, waste experts say the odds of finding those coins are next to nil Bootnotes11 Feb 2025 | 113
US accuses Canadian math prodigy of $65M crypto scheme Suspect, still at large, said to back concept that 'code is law' Legal04 Feb 2025 | 24
DARPA asking for ideas on automating money laundering detection With all the AI hype swirling around, you'd think someone would've cracked this one already Software28 Jan 2025 | 22
CDNs: Great for speeding up the internet, bad for location privacy Infosec in brief Also, Subaru web portal spills user deets, Tornado Cash sanctions overturned, a Stark ransomware attack, and more Security27 Jan 2025 | 5
Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap Crypto critics unhappy as BTC hits all-time high and Melania launches her own currency Personal Tech20 Jan 2025 | 121
Crypto klepto North Korea stole $659M over just 5 heists last year US, Japan, South Korea vow to intensify counter efforts Cyber-crime15 Jan 2025 | 13
Pastor's divine 'dream' crypto scheme indicted by Uncle Sam Plus: Man who tossed Bitcoin drive worth millions barred from digging in dump Offbeat13 Jan 2025 | 32
Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online Infosec in Brief PLUS: DoJ bans data sale to enemy nations; Do Kwon extradited to US; Tenable CEO passes away; and more Security06 Jan 2025 | 43
Solana blockchain's popular web3.js npm package backdoored to steal keys, funds Damage likely limited to those running bots with private PKI access Cyber-crime05 Dec 2024 | 7
Binance accused of tax evasion by India's finance department Minister reveals 17 crypto players owe $100 million – with Binance the baddest of the bad Personal Tech04 Dec 2024 | 7