Every week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents in digital assets. This week's stories include singer Nine Chen’s potential prosecution in the JPEX case, SEC's lawsuit Silvergate, a suspected Bittensor exploit, and Q2 crypto scam stats.
This week, crypto stealer convicted, reward for info on Crypto Queen increased, BtcTurk and CoinStats suffered cyberattacks, Lazarus blamed for Alex Lab hack, Nigeria refuted allegations of ill treatment, sentencing in Hydrogen Technology case, Binance fined in India, and FBI warned of crypto scams.
This week, the Norwegian government froze funds from the Ronin hack, a hacker stole personal data of OKX users, Terraform Labs' SEC released settlement terms, "Ethereum's most secure wallet" was breached, Orbit Chain spoke about its hacked funds and scammers exploited AI hype.
This week, Robinhood said it will acquire Bitstamp in a $200 million deal, a senior promoter of the Forcount crypto Ponzi scheme pleaded guilty, crypto scammers targeted work-from-home job seekers, and Tether and CoinGecko warned of crypto phishing attacks.
This week, FTX paid $25 million to whistleblowers, former FTX co-CEO Ryan Salame was sentenced, guilty pleas were entered in the cases of a $47 million embezzlement, a $37 million theft and a $9.5 million fraud, and a woman was sentenced in a $10.4 million money laundering case.
Cryptomining malware that might be North Korean in origin is targeting edge devices, including a zero-day in Palo Alto Networks' custom operating system that the company hurriedly patched in April. It appears threat actors operate their own mining pools or pool proxies rather than using public ones.
This week, Gala Games and Pump.fun were hacked; alleged pig-butchering scammers, Incognito admin and illicit banking racketeers were arrested; Pink Drainer was shut down; the U.S. House approved a crypto bill; a man pleaded guilty to wire fraud; and tech companies formed a scam-fighting coalition.
This week, $25M in ethereum was stolen, Sonne Finance was hacked, a thief returned stolen crypto, Canada indicted its crypto king, the U.S. blocked a purchase by a Chinese crypto mining firm, Canada took regulatory action against Binance, and two senators were concerned about cryptomixer policy.
A Dutch court Tuesday handed Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev a sentence of five years and four months for money laundering. The 31-year-old Russian national developed and maintained cryptocurrency anonymization software used to launder digital cash worth more than $2 billion.
This week, BTC-e head pleaded guilty; arrests were made in Ponzi scheme, ZKasino case; charges filed in Cred scam; individual and Pike Finance were hacked; Hundred Finance's hacker moved stolen funds; the EU took down an exit scam; the feds probed Block' and crypto scammers were arrested.
The digital payment landscape is undergoing transformative growth, with cybersecurity at its core. Dharshan Shanthamurthy, CEO at SISA, discussed the urgency of addressing cybersecurity in an industry that is not only lucrative for businesses but also for motivated criminal gangs.
This week, SEC filed suit against Geosyn, prosecutors fought dismissed Tornado Cash charges, analyst tracked North Korean crypto laundering, European Parliament OK'd anti-money laundering law, FBI warned of unregistered crypto entities and South Korea may make crypto investigative unit permanent.
A federal judge sentenced former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao to four months in prison for money laundering violations, a crime the judge said he is unlikely to repeat. The sentencing came more than five months after the former crypto trading heavyweight pleaded guilty.
This week, Samourai Wallet co-founder was arrested, a $45M hack hit Hedgey Finance, El Salvador wallet data leaked, another was charged in the OneCoin case, the SEC wants to fine Terraform Labs, prosecutors want a three-year prison term for CZ, and Thailand cracked down on unauthorized operators.
A New York federal jury has found a hacker guilty of charges that he masterminded and carried out a scheme to fraudulently obtain $110 million in cryptocurrency from crypto currency exchange Mango Markets and investors.
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