2025-2-14 22:18 |
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says it helped save an estimated $285 million that victims would have lost to cryptocurrency scams. According to a report published on Feb. 13, the FBI pointed to an initiative dubbed “Operation Level Up”… origin »
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FBI is working with LinkedIn to tackle what it called a "significant threat" after fraudsters exploited the job-seeking and networking platform to lure investors into cryptocurrency schemes before robbing them of their investments, according to a CNBC report.
2022-6-18 22:57 | |
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“The currency might be virtual, but the message to companies is concrete: if you report to us, we can follow the money and not only help you, but hopefully prevent the next victim," said Lisa Monaco.
2022-2-17 20:33 | |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been bolstering its systems and using stronger tactics to tackle cybercrime and the nefarious use of cryptocurrency, according to a Bloomberg report. The post FBI Bolstering Tactics Against Illicit Cryptocurrency Transactions and Cybercrimes appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-7-1 10:55 | |
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) exploited a weak password to gain access to the Bitcoin wallet belonging to Darkside, a notorious hacker group behind Colonial Pipeline’s ransomware attack in April.
2021-6-9 18:41 | |
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Over the last eight years, U. S. law enforcement has seized a great number of bitcoins and at one time, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) held one of the largest bitcoin wallets after the Silk Road takedown.
2021-4-12 18:00 | |
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The FBI came under the microscope in an unclassified version of the Office of the Inspector General report released on Dec. 17. Strategies, not strategy After a short introduction into the dark web and its uses, good and bad, the authors attempt to examine the FBI’s strategy.
2020-12-19 16:12 | |
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A damning leak details how Binance was planning to fool U.S. regulators
2020-10-30 21:34 | |
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Former Bitsonar employee Yaroslav Shtadchenko has filed an FBI complaint accusing the crypto investment firm of operating like a pyramid scheme.
2020-9-7 20:00 | |
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A recent report released by Chainalysis revealed how U.S officials including the FBI, among other agencies, investigated the recent case of cryptocurrencies stolen by the Lazarus Group, a North Korea-The post Exchanges join DoJ in taking on Bitcoin, Ethereum-laundering Lazarus Group appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-8-29 12:30 | |
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Following Wednesday’s serious security breach on Twitter, U. S. Senator Josh Hawley has sent an open letter to bitcoin-friendly Jack Dorsey, the CEO of the microblogging platform in a bid to find out the steps the team is taking to mitigate the attack, according to a report on July 16, 2020.
2020-7-17 19:00 | |
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Hacker groups from several foreign countries have reportedly started targeting several companies conducting research into the coronavirus pandemic. Reuters recently reported that Tonya Ugoretz, a Deputy Assistant Director at the FBI, made the attempted hacks known at a panel conducted by international nonprofit think tank The Aspen Institute.
2020-4-19 00:15 | |
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Ransomware attacks and similar extortion schemes took in an estimated $144 million in the course of 7 years. FBI estimates show most of the ransoms were paid in Bitcoin (BTC) and went straight to mixers or exchanges.
2020-2-27 19:00 | |
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Telegram CEO argues that iCloud is “now officially a surveillance tool,” citing a report on the FBI stopping Apple from encrypting users’ backups
2020-1-23 22:41 | |
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US Rep. Devin Nunes can’t seem to catch a break. First, despite his memo blaming Obama and the FBI for all the evils in the world, his fellow former members of the Trump transition team keep getting indicted for being bad at crime.
2019-9-14 21:31 | |
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According to a report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on June 3, 2019, it is conducting an ongoing investigation alongside the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, and the Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section to seek victims who lostRead MoreRead More.
2019-6-5 13:00 | |
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According to a report by TechCrunch published May 7, 2019, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested several individuals suspected of running the deep web search engine called Deep Dot Web.
2019-5-8 20:00 | |
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In March 2018, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a report detailing how Russian operatives had launched a handful of attacks across segments of the US’s critical infrastructure, including the power grid.
2019-3-23 16:30 | |
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Since May 2017, America’s political class has waited in suspense as FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller pieced together his comprehensive report on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
2019-3-21 21:45 | |
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As QuadrigaCX’s legal counsel descends on the courtroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for another round of legal proceedings, the court monitor’s third report on QuadrigaCX’s finances — specifically its revelation that the exchange’s cold wallets are empty — lays out some hopeful avenues for fund recovery — and some frustrating dead ends.
2019-3-5 20:20 | |
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Ever since 1929, the FBI has shared annual crime statistics via the Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Each year, it breaks down criminal activity into such categories as homicide, weapons, human trafficking, and hate crime.
2019-1-29 07:00 | |
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A dangerous email scam appears to be targeting businesses, schools, hospitals, and government buildings across the US in an attempt to extort bitcoin (BTC) with a bomb threat. A spokesperson for the FBI provided TNW with the following statement: We are aware of the recent bomb threats made in cities around the country, and we remain in touch with our law enforcement partners to provide assistance.
2018-12-14 01:52 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has obtained an emergency court order issuing the stoppage of a recently planned initial coin offering (ICO) by Blockvest LLC and its founder Reginald Buddy Ringgold III, who falsely advertised that the token sale was approved by the SEC.
2018-10-12 01:12 | |
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Uncle Sam is snooping on crypto investors, many of whom believe they’re transacting anonymously on the web. U. S. government spending on blockchain analytics has nearly tripled — $5.
2018-9-26 15:00 | |
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“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.
2018-7-26 18:55 | |
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Firms that refer in annual reports to their trade secrets + markedly increase risk of cyber-attacks, study suggests “The threat is incredibly serious,” the FBI warns in a report this May on cyber-crime.
2018-7-17 14:28 | |
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The first six months of 2018 have seen nearly three times as much crypto getting stolen than in all of 2017, a new report by CipherTrace has revealed. The FBI has also reported a six-fold increase in the number of crypto-related complaints from 2015 to 2017. Criminals have taken to cryptos in earnest as they […]
2018-7-8 21:00 | |
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Tether Ltd. , which issues a stable coin allegedly tied to U. S. dollar reserves, claims it has hired Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan LLP — a law firm co-founded by FBI Director Louis Freeh — to confirm its bank deposits and assure investors that its cryptocurrency is backed by USD.
2018-6-21 23:05 | |
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Freeh, Sporkin & Sullivan LLP (FSS), a Washington-based law firm formed by three former judges, including a former FBI director, says tether is fully backed with dollars. In a report... The post Tether is Fully Backed Says Law Firm According to Tether appeared first on Trustnodes.
2018-6-20 17:22 | |
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The U. S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has “neither [confirmed] nor [denied] the existence” of information regarding the real identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, Motherboard reported June 14.
2018-6-16 05:28 | |
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Thomas John “T. J. Stone” Sfraga was sentenced in federal court for scamming real estate and crypto investors through a business inspired by the 90s TV show Seinfeld. According to a press release from the U.
A Montana man has been found guilty of conspiracy to launder over $2.4 million through cryptocurrency, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas announced Thursday. Randall V. Rule, 73, formerly of Kalispell, Montana, was convicted on all…
South Korean crypto figure Park, known as “Jonbur Kim” or the “Coin King,” has been arrested again on fresh fraud charges. This arrest comes just weeks after his release on bail for a separate crypto scam case. The Seoul Southern…
A British man was jailed for nearly five months after failing to disclose his Bitcoin holdings during a legal dispute with another cryptocurrency trader. Graham Darby, 50, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for contempt of court but was…
Two men have been arrested in connection with a cryptocurrency fraud case that led to a 75-year-old Aberdeenshire man losing a six-figure sum. Police began investigating the case in July 2024. On February 18, 2025, officers from North East Division…
First comes love, then comes heartbreak — followed by a drained bank account. AMLBot’s latest investigation exposes how romance scammers are tricking victims into losing everything in crypto this Valentine’s season.