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A 57-year-old man from the U.S. state of Missouri has been arrested in connection with a failed data extortion campaign that targeted his former employer. Daniel Rhyne of Kansas City, Missouri,...
Australian Craig Wright has finally admitted he is not the inventor of Bitcoin after losing several cases in the High Court of England and Wales, whose judge has suggested he be investigated for perjury. Wright has for years claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto - the pseudonym used by whoever wrote the whitepaper that defined Bitcoin and created the reference architecture for the cryptocurrency.
Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin is warning that 4,502.9 Bitcoin, or approximately $308 million, has been stolen from one of its wallets today, making it the most significant cryptocurrency heist of 2024. "At approximately 1:26 p.m. on Friday, May 31, 2024, we detected an unauthorized leak of Bitcoin from our wallet," DMM Bitcoin told customers.
A forensic analysis of a graph dataset containing transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain has revealed clusters associated with illicit activity and money laundering, including detecting criminal...
Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov was convicted by a federal jury in Washington, D.C., for operating Bitcoin Fog between 2011 and 2021. Bitcoin Fog was one of the longest-running cryptocurrency "Tumblers" on the dark web, which cybercriminals from multiple darknet marketplaces used to launder their criminal proceeds.
ALPHV/BlackCat, the gang behind the Change Healthcare cyberattack, has received more than $22 million in Bitcoin in what might be a ransomware payment. Dmitry Smilyanets, an intelligence analyst at infosec outfit Recorded Future, spotted a Bitcoin wallet believed to be linked to ALPHV received 350 Bitcoins, right now worth at least $22 million, in a single transaction on March 1.
The LockBit ransomware gang received more than $125 million in ransom payments over the past 18 months, according to the analysis of hundreds of cryptocurrency wallets associated with the operation. The investigation found that more than 2,200 BTC - more than $110 million at today's exchange rate, remained unspent when LockBit was disrupted.
The police in Saxony, eastern Germany, have seized 50,000 Bitcoin from the former operator of the pirate site movie2k. As the police announced, one of the two suspects voluntarily transferred Bitcoin to the Federal Criminal Police Office.
Someone has hijacked the X account of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and posted an announcement saying the agency has decided to allow the listing of Bitcoin ETFs on registered national security exchanges. SEC X account hijacked, "Unauthorized tweet" posted.
The X account for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was hacked today to issue a fake announcement on the approval of Bitcoin ETFs on security exchanges. "Today the SEC grants approval to Bitcoin ETFs for listing on registered national security exchanges," read the fake X post.