Magdaleno Mendoza, a senior promoter of the IcomTech cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, was sentenced to 71 months in federal prison this week for defrauding primarily Spanish-speaking, working-class investors of millions of ...
A Cardiff man has been jailed for three years and eight months after hijacking victims' social media accounts and impersonating them to steal £124,000 through a fake cryptocurrency investment scheme ...
The UK government will introduce legislation by October 2027 that brings cryptocurrency exchanges, dealers, and agents under the same regulatory framework as traditional banks and investment firms, according to Treasury ...
A 21-year-old Ukrainian student was tortured for hours and burned alive in Vienna after attackers forced him to surrender his cryptocurrency wallet passwords in what Austrian authorities are calling one ...
The United Kingdom has formally recognized digital assets as personal property under a new law that ends years of legal uncertainty over cryptocurrency ownership and rights. The Property (Digital Assets ...
Faruk Fatih Ozer, founder of collapsed Turkish cryptocurrency exchange Thodex, was found dead in his solitary prison cell on November 1, with Turkish officials investigating the incident as a suspected ...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has broadened its regulatory reach with new guidance redefining how national financial laws apply to digital assets. Announced on October 29, the update ...
Europol and Latvian police have dismantled a crypto phishing network that created 49 million fake accounts using 40,000 SIM cards to defraud victims across Europe, seizing $330,000 in cryptocurrencies and ...
Changpeng "CZ" Zhao issued an urgent warning to crypto traders on Sunday after a series of verified social media accounts—including BNB Chain and PancakeSwap—were hijacked to promote fake meme coins ...
Kazakhstan's Financial Monitoring Agency shut down 130 unlicensed cryptocurrency platforms and seized $16.7 million in digital assets in what officials described as the country's largest enforcement operation targeting crypto-linked money ...
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