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South Korea Charges Five Over CATFI DEX Rug Pull

Prosecutors say they can now trace pseudonymous on-chain activity to real people for prosecution under the Virtual Asset User Protection Act.

Forsage Co-Founder Extradited to U.S., Pleads Not Guilty in Alleged $340 Million Crypto Ponzi

‘GothFerrari’ Sentenced to 78 Months in $250 Million Crypto Theft Case

Anonymous Investor Sues Coinbase to Recover Frozen DAI Tied to 2024 Phishing Heist

Bitcoin Depot Discloses $3.7 Million Bitcoin Theft After Corporate IT Breach

ZachXBT Exposes DPRK IT Worker Crypto Network Moving Millions

DOJ Strike Force Freezes Over $580 Million in Crypto Tied to Southeast Asian 'Pig-Butchering' Scams

AI and Impersonation Drove Record $17 Billion in Crypto Scams, Chainalysis Finds

Illicit Crypto Hit $154 Billion in 2025 as Sanctioned States Moved On‑Chain

Brooklyn Man Indicted in $16 Million Coinbase Phishing Case Has Bail Raised to $2.5 Million

Europol Dismantles €700 Million Crypto Fraud Network After Two-Phase Raids

South Korean Report: North Korea Using Sanctioned NVIDIA GPUs to Accelerate AI for Cyber Operations

Crypto Money Launderer Kunal Mehta Pleads Guilty in $263 Million Social-Engineering Case

Global Probe Maps How Crypto Networks Launder Billions Through Exchanges and Cash Desks

UK Jails ‘Cryptoqueen’ Zhimin Qian to 11 Years Over £5 Billion Bitcoin Laundering

Avalanche Jumps 8.9% as CoinDesk 20 Climbs With 19 of 20 Constituents Higher

Deepfake Video Call Steals $1.3 Million From THORChain Co-Founder

Wyoming Launches Frontier Token, a State-Issued Stablecoin With 102% Reserves

TRM Labs Launches Beacon Network for Real-Time Crypto Crime Alerts