Police News

Authorities across Europe take down an organized crime syndicate that used an encrypted chat network to coordinate their illicit activities.

About 4,000 Chinese bank accounts of over-the-counter cryptocurrency traders were allegedly frozen by law enforcement.

Indian police are collaborating with local research and academic institutions to inform an AI-powered online portal to aid policing initiatives targeting the dark web.

Chinese law enforcement discovered an illegal Bitcoin mining operation in what appeared to be multiple underground burial sites.

Vitalii Antonenko is facing up to 20 years in jail for selling sensitive data after the prosecution traced his Bitcoin wallet.

Sydney police have arrested an Australian woman for allegedly running a crime syndicate using Bitcoin to launder $3.23 million since 2017.

After sentencing a man who sold drugs on the dark web, police officer Phil Ariss offers lessons from policing crypto crime for four years.

New Zealand police flag fraudsters threatening victims with the release of sensitive information about porn consumption if they don’t pay ransom in BTC.

Russian authorities detained a group of online criminals that sold massive amounts of counterfeit banknotes on the dark web in return for crypto.

Manitobans are increasingly falling victim to a variety of cryptocurrency scams.

Over the last two years, U.K. police forces reported 562 total accounts of blackmail in which hackers demanded Bitcoin.

While some countries are selling bitcoins confiscated through law enforcement actions, Finland is in no hurry to decide what to do with its seized BTC.

The Dutch Fiscal Intelligence and Investigation Service arrested two men for allegedly laundering money with cryptocurrencies.

Interpol helped curtail cryptojacking malware that affected thousands of routers.

Yang Zuoxing, formerly a top chip designer for mining hardware giant Bitmain, has allegedly been arrested on suspicion of embezzlement.