Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0000
He just untangled a $243 million bitcoin theft, what may be the biggest-ever crypto heist to target a single victim. And he has never shown his face.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:17:52 +0000
After eight months, one of the US’s most prominent crypto-crime investigators may finally be coming home.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:02:20 +0000
The $4.4 billion in crypto is set to be the largest pile of criminal proceeds ever sold off by the US. The former IRS agent who seized the recording-breaking sum, meanwhile, languishes in a Nigerian jail cell.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:58:01 +0000
A new resolution echoes what 16 members of Congress have already said to the White House: It must do more to free one of the most storied crypto-focused federal agents in history.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Matt Giles| Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0000
More than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims in likely the worst-ever crypto-focused serial extortion case of its kind in the US.
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Credit to Author: Kim Zetter| Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 14:12:03 +0000
Tuesday’s verdict in the trial of Alexey Pertsev, a creator of crypto-privacy service Tornado Cash, is the first in a string of cases that could make it much harder to skirt financial surveillance.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000
Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it’s trained on—that aims to spot the “shape” of bitcoin money laundering.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 04:03:36 +0000
Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:48:55 +0000
An indictment against three Americans suggests that at least some of the culprits behind the theft of an FTX crypto fortune may be in custody.
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