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According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has detained two men who took part in "a violent plan to break into a family's home in the middle of the night to steal bitcoin worth tens of millions of
The US Attorney’s Office Eastern District of New York has announced that New York-based businessman Maksim Zaslavskiy was arrested on Nov. 1, 2017, due to securities fraud conspiracy in connection with two initial coin offerings (ICO). Zasl
Rather than waiting until it’s too late, law firms are opening up bitcoin wallets to pay ransoms in case their data is stolen, according to a cybersecurity expert. John Sweeney, president of IT and cybersecurity advisors LogicForce, said th
Accused of laundering hundreds of thousands of euros through the digital currency Bitcoin, six men are facing charges in a Dutch court for apparently selling Bitcoin paid for by illegal drug sales. The men face potential sentences ranging f
US president Donald Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions has called the Dark Web a “big problem” and hinted at potential future regulatory moves. As part of a testimony at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Justice Department oversight, Se
A cryptography security flaw, present in 750,000 Estonian e-Residency cards and elsewhere, has a five-year history, researchers say. Since news broke earlier this year that the code library by Infineon, the company responsible for dishing o
A police investigation in Finland into the OneCoin cryptocurrency investment scheme is accelerating. The Finnish Broadcasting Company reports that, according to law enforcement officials in the city of Österbotten, an as-yet-unnamed OneCoin
South Korean authorities have confirmed that hackers from North Korea targeted bitcoin exchanges in the country in multiple attempts to steal the cryptocurrency. The Republic of Korea’s National Police Agency (NPA) has published details of
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a businessman and two of his companies with defrauding investors through initial coin offering (ICO) scams, including the REcoin ICO. SEC Charges REcoin ICO Organizer With Fraud Accord
In an agency first, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a lawsuit accusing a Brooklyn, New York man of operating a bitcoin Ponzi scheme. Earlier this week, former CFTC commissioner Bart Chilton called for the cryp
After Police seized 216 Bitcoins from an individual that was suspected to be involved in illegal activities with the digital currency, it was ruled by a South Korean court that the seizure was illegitimate. The Suwon district court set a gr
Assumed BTC-e CEO Alexander Vinnik has publicly stated his innocence and even offered to help Vladimir Putin as a digital technology specialist. Speaking to Russia Today in his first official interview since police arrested him in Greece in