Published on: 2025-04-19 11:55:27
Oregon’s Attorney General is planning to file a lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. That is according to the company’s chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, who wrote in a post on X that the state is “resurrecting the dead” by filing a case similar to the one dropped by the U.S. Department of Justice under President Trump. “Today the Oregon Attorney General is resurrecting the dead by bringing a copycat case of @SECGov‘s enforcement action against Coinbase,” Grewal wrote. “As a remind
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On February 21, the largest crypto heist ever started to unfold. Hackers gained control of a crypto wallet belonging to the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, Bybit, and stole almost $1.5 billion of digital tokens. They quickly shunted the money between dozens of cryptocurrency wallets and services to try and obscure the activity, before starting to cash the stolen funds out. The eye-popping digital raid had all the hallmarks of being conducted by one of North Korea’s elite subgrou
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The Justice Department has directed prosecutors to limit their pursuit of certain cryptocurrency crimes, the latest example of the Trump administration pulling back on white-collar criminal enforcement. In a memo sent to staff members Monday night, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department will no longer pursue cases that he described as better left to financial regulatory agencies. Instead, prosecutors should focus on investigating people who commit crimes using cryptocurrency, s
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Crypto will have fewer eyes on some of its moving parts after today, particularly exchanges and offline, or cold, crypto wallets. President Donald Trump's administration announced Monday night in a memo that it's disbanding the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, which was established in 2022 to combat cryptocurrency fraud. In 2023, crypto scams cost victims more than $5.6 billion, according to an FBI report. "The prior Administration used the Justice Department to pursue a reckless stra
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The US Department of Justice has disbanded its unit focused on prosecuting cryptocurrency scams. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the end of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team in a memo sent on Monday, Reuters reported . When the NCET launched , its focus was prosecuting cryptocurrency used in money laundering, fraud and theft. In recent years, the Department of Justice secured several high-profile wins in cases involving Binance , Tornado Cash and Bitfinex . However, th
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In case you had any doubts, the golden age of white-collar crime is upon us. The Justice Department announced on Monday that it will stop regulating the digital asset space, instead focusing its efforts on prosecuting crimes that utilize cryptocurrency, like drug and human trafficking. The news comes shortly after President Trump delivered pardons to individuals in the crypto industry, including Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht and more recently the leaders of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX. The
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The Binance logo is displayed on a screen in San Anselmo, California, June 6, 2023. Emirati state-owned investment firm MGX announced a $2 billion investment into Binance, in what marks the cryptocurrency exchange's first institutional investment and the "single largest investment" ever paird in crypto. In a joint press release, the firms said the minority stake would be paid for in stablecoins, making it the "largest investment ever" paid in cryptocurrency. Stablecoins are a type of digital a
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What just happened? In a court filing earlier this month, U.S. federal agents confirmed that a series of high-profile cyberheists, including a $150 million cryptocurrency theft, are linked to the 2022 breach of password manager service LastPass. The heists involved cracking master passwords stolen from LastPass, which allowed thieves to access sensitive information, including cryptocurrency seed phrases stored in the "Secure Notes" section of victims' accounts, according to KrebsonSecurity, whic
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The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last lower by 5% at $78,714.96, its lowest level since November, according to Coin Metrics. Bitcoin dropped under the $80,000 level Monday, dragged by the continued selling pressure in the equities market. Shares of companies linked to the crypto space also slid. Coinbase fell roughly 14%. Robinhood lost 17%, and bitcoin proxy play Strategy , formerly known as MicroStrategy, declined 16%. Bitcoin ETFs are coming off their fourth week in a row of ou
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Bitcoin fell on Monday as volatility in the price of the world's largest cryptocurrency continues following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to create a strategic bitcoin reserve for the United States. Bitcoin was trading at $81,712, down over 5% but off earlier lows, at 9:42 a.m. Singapore time, according to Coin Metrics. The reserve will be funded by coins that have been seized in criminal and civil forfeiture cases and there are no plans for the U.S. government to buy mor
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U.S. authorities have seized over $23 million in cryptocurrency linked to the theft of $150 million from a Ripple crypto wallet in January 2024. Investigators believe hackers who breached LastPass in 2022 were behind the attack. Despite the threat actors' efforts, law enforcement agents traced $23,604,815.09 of the stolen digital assets between June 2024 and February 2025 to the following cryptocurrency exchanges: OKX, Payward Interactive, Inc. (dba Kraken), WhiteBIT, AscendEX Technology SRL, F
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In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing this week, U.S. federal agents investigating a spectacular $150 million cryptocurrency heist said they had reached the same conclusion. On March 6, federal prosecutors in northern California said they seized approxi
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In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing this week, U.S. federal agents investigating a spectacular $150 million cryptocurrency heist said they had reached the same conclusion. On March 6, federal prosecutors in northern California said they seized approxi
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In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing this week, U.S. federal agents investigating a spectacular $150 million cryptocurrency heist said they had reached the same conclusion. On March 6, federal prosecutors in northern California said they seized approxi
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U.S. authorities have seized over $23 million in cryptocurrency linked to the theft of $150 million from a Ripple crypto wallet in January 2024. Investigators believe hackers who breached LastPass in 2022 were behind the attack. Despite the threat actors' efforts, law enforcement agents traced $23,604,815.09 of the stolen digital assets between June 2024 and February 2025 to the following cryptocurrency exchanges: OKX, Payward Interactive, Inc. (dba Kraken), WhiteBIT, AscendEX Technology SRL, F
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FBI has confirmed that North Korean hackers stole $1.5 billion from cryptocurrency exchange Bybit on Friday in the largest crypto heist recorded until now. The state-sponsored hacking group (tracked as TraderTraitor, Lazarus Group, and APT38) intercepted a scheduled transfer of funds from one of Bybit's cold wallets into a hot wallet, subsequently redirecting the cryptocurrency to a blockchain address under their control. "The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this PSA to advi
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The cryptocurrency industry and those responsible for securing it are still in shock following Friday’s heist, likely by North Korea, that drained $1.5 billion from Dubai-based exchange Bybit, making the theft by far the biggest ever in digital asset history. Bybit officials disclosed the theft of more than 400,000 ethereum and staked ethereum coins just hours after it occurred. The notification said the digital loot had been stored in a “Multisig Cold Wallet” when, somehow, it was transferred
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Threat actors are exploiting major Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) competitions, like IEM Katowice 2025 and PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, to defraud gamers and steal their Steam accounts and cryptocurrency. Although CS2 first launched 13 years ago, it still maintains a massive community of plays and an active professional competition landscape with multi-million rewards. Characteristically, earlier this month, CS2 achieved a new peak player count of over 1.7 million concurrent players on Steam. CS2 streamjack
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Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit revealed today that an unknown attacker stole over $1.46 billion worth of cryptocurrency from one of its ETH cold wallets. "The incident occurred when our ETH multisig cold wallet executed a transfer to our warm wallet. Unfortunately, this transaction was manipulated through a sophisticated attack that masked the signing interface, displaying the correct address while altering the underlying smart contract logic," Bybit explained. "As a result, the attacker was ab
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