Ian Rogers, who previously built Beats Music, helped launch Apple Music, and later worked at LVMH, has taken on the role of chief human agency officer at Ledger, a crypto security startup valued at $1.5 billion. Ledger uses secure hardware chips, similar to those found in credit cards, to protect digital assets like Bitcoin from theft or loss. Rogers is now working remotely from rural Italy, shaping the company's security and AI strategy.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-10
Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean living in Miami, has pleaded guilty to racketeering charges tied to a cybercrime ring that allegedly stole and laundered hundreds of millions in cryptocurrency. Prosecutors say the 12-member group, which reportedly first connected through Minecraft before meeting in person in 2023, targeted wealthy crypto holders using social engineering, with individual thefts ranging from $800,000 to a single $245 million heist. Lam now faces up to 20 years in prison, with sentencing still pending.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-10
A Big Story investigation from MIT Technology Review, done with Type Investigations, examines how pastor Eli Regalado and his wife launched INDXcoin after claiming divine instruction, raising over $3 million from more than 500 people before the project collapsed within a year with investors losing everything. Separately, the nonprofit Reflective has published a detailed plan outlining the experiments and infrastructure needed to better understand solar geoengineering before any real-world deployment decisions are made.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-09-10
Cisco Talos researchers identified two separate ClickFix-style social engineering campaigns that trick victims into executing malicious code themselves, one aimed at stealing cryptocurrency and another designed to gain persistent enterprise network access. One campaign uses a publicly shared Google Sheet to distribute malicious browser code that hijacks Chrome transaction interfaces, while both operations abuse legitimate cloud services and trusted software to disguise malicious activity as normal user behavior.
darkreading.com
· 2026-09-08
Trezor has revised the scope of its August data breach, now saying 81,000 customers were affected instead of the roughly 14,000 first reported. The increase stems from logistics partner ShipMonk failing to delete older records as its contract required, exposing details of 67,000 additional U.S. customers who ordered between November 2019 and August 2021.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-07
A jobseeker was contacted on LinkedIn by someone posing as a recruiter and asked to complete an interview process that involved downloading a document. The file was actually malicious software, and within hours the attackers used it to drain £18,000 from his cryptocurrency accounts before disappearing.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-09-03
Cold wallets are cryptocurrency storage methods that never connect to the internet, protecting the private keys needed to prove ownership of blockchain assets. These range from simple paper wallets listing 12 or 24 recovery words to dedicated hardware devices that sign transactions internally before connecting briefly via USB, Bluetooth or NFC to authorize transfers.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-02
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told the Katie Miller Podcast that he views philanthropy as often a 'net negative on the world,' arguing that charitable foundations tend to get 'captured by ideology.' Despite an estimated net worth of $8.7 billion, Armstrong said he has decided not to pursue large-scale giving, contrasting his stance with figures like Bill Gates.
futurism.com
· 2026-08-31
Federal prosecutors in Nevada allege Brent Kovar ran a Ponzi scheme that fraudulently raised $24 million from roughly 400 investors by claiming he used AI software on a supercomputer to mine and verify cryptocurrency. He promised annual returns of 15 to 30 percent with a full money-back guarantee, but investigators say he paid earlier investors with money from new ones and could not honor his guarantees. Kovar now faces 11 counts of wire fraud, two counts of mail fraud, and two counts of money laundering, carrying a maximum combined sentence of 280 years.
futurism.com
· 2026-08-30
Victims across China report losing between $1,500 and $300,000 after scammers posed as romantic partners or professionals and moved conversations from social platforms onto Microsoft Teams using shared login credentials. Once trust was established, the scammers pitched cryptocurrency investments and disappeared with victims' money, leaving them unable to access chat records for police reports since they never controlled the accounts themselves. Local Chinese law enforcement agencies have begun warning the public that Teams is being used as a fraud tool, and platforms like Maimai now flag messages mentioning Teams or Skype as high-risk.
wired.com
· 2026-08-28
Zach Witkoff, CEO of Trump-linked World Liberty Financial, said USD1's trading volume and adoption prove the stablecoin has genuine utility unrelated to political favoritism. He cited over $4 billion in circulation and daily trading volumes exceeding $1 billion, dismissing suggestions the token could be used to funnel money to the Trump family.
cnbc.com
· 2026-08-25
Interpol conducted an eight-month operation, dubbed Jackal IV, from November 2025 to June 2026 targeting the global support networks enabling West African cybercrime syndicates like Black Axe. The effort spanned 22 countries across six continents, resulting in 58 arrests and the identification of 263 suspects linked to romance scams, crypto fraud, business email compromise, and violent crimes. In Argentina alone, authorities uncovered a crime-as-a-service network supplying domains and money laundering to these gangs, identifying about 200 people and arresting 17.
techspot.com
· 2026-08-25
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