Crimes News

Oksana Markarova, Ukraine’s Finance Minister, names the local authority that will be able to track the sources of origin of crypto funds.

As the FCA looks to shake things up under their new AML regime, how will the U.K. and the global cryptocurrency industry react?

A Canadian teenager has been charged with participating in a crime ring that stole over $50 million in cryptocurrencies, targeting Consensus 2018 attendees.

The U.S. SEC has charged Boaz Manor and his associates with raising over $30 million through a fraudulent initial coin offering.

Singaporean entrepreneur and ICO advisor Mark Cheng is reported to have been kidnapped in Thailand by close associates who wanted his Bitcoin holdings.

U.S. lawmakers have appealed to the Federal Communications Commission to hold telecoms providers to account for their complicity in SIM swap attacks.

Internet of Things software developer It’s Here announced the launch of a blockchain-enabled lock that purportedly prevents porch pirating.

Interpol helped curtail cryptojacking malware that affected thousands of routers.

The allegedly North Korea-sponsored hackers known as Lazarus have deployed new viruses to steal cryptocurrency.

Two directors of Dunamiscoins, an alleged cryptocurrency pyramid scheme in Uganda, appeared before court on Monday to face 65 counts tied to obtaining money by ...

The CFTC is having trouble locating a man allegedly responsible for a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme worth over $140 million.

There were 12 major cryptocurrency exchange hacks in 2019. In total, over $292 million and over 500,000 pieces of customer data were stolen.

United States citizen, Joanna De Alba, has been accused of heroin and methamphetamine distribution in exchange for Bitcoin.

Cryptocurrency holders are being warned against a Chrome extension for Ledger hardware wallets that allegedly contains malware that steals their seed phrases.

What did 2019 bring by way of privacy coins in criminality, how have things changed, and what is the 2020 outlook?