Sim Swapping Becomes the highest Concern of Anti-cybercrime Authorities

In the fight against crypto fraud, police in the United States consider “Sim swapping” top of their list of priorities. This is according to security news publication KrebsonSecurity. Santa Barbara police sergeant and supervisor of the REACT task force, Samy…

The US state forfeits $700,000 worth of crypto from dark web dealer “Oxymonster”

36 Year old Gal Vallerius as known as “Oxymonster” in the dark webs has been handed a 20-year prison sentence by US District Judge Robert Scola. Gal was handed this sentence after being involved heavily in the dark web drug…

The SEC Closes in on an Alleged “pump and Dump” ICO Scheme

Pump and dump schemes have been the order of the day for months now, with unscrupulous characters trapping investors then making a killing after managing to pull money into a digital asset. This horrible malpractice has caught the attention of…

Amateur crypto jacking the most prominent and worrying trend in 2018

The year of the crypto boom 2017, also signified a big year for crypto heists since cases of crypto-jacking increased by 8,500 percent. 2018 has also come out as a big year for crypto mining malware according to a report…

Leaked NSA Software tip Causing Bitcoin and Monero to Becoming targets for Hackers

It has been revealed that hackers are illegally generating Bitcoin, Monero and other cryptocurrencies by making the most out of a software flaw leaked from the United States government. This information raises serious questions about the security of one of…

Japan based Zaif exchange losses 59 million in crypto heist

Hackers were at it again, this time making away with 59 million dollars’ worth of cryptocurrencies from cryptocurrency exchange, Zaif, which is based in Japan.  A local report indicated that the heist was enabled by a security breach that occurred…

An Obituary of Bitconnect

Though crypto-currency has achieved a few milestones over the years, it has also seen a lot of people lose a lot of money after a few scam artists pulled a fast one on them. Such is the case of defunct…

Scandalous Bitconnect Chief Finally Arrested

Divyesh Darji, the man behind the infamous cryptocurrency firm and scam Bitconnect has finally been arrested.  Darji was arrested shortly after he was spotted attempting to leave Dubai. Darji and his associates in the company have come under heavy scrutiny…

Crypto Price Manipulators Have Made 825 million so Far This Year According to The WSJ

Organized trading groups are largely responsible for price manipulation using services such as Telegram according to a wall street journal report from August the 5th. According to research results from the wall street journal, “pump and dump schemes” had succeeded…

Hong Kong Journalist Raises the Alarm on KuCoin

Jackson Wong, an independent Hong Kong-based journalist has raised the alarm on the safety and reliability of KuCoin as a crypto exchange. In a medium post, which he was strongly titled as “WARNING: KuCoin’s Hong Kong office is empty” he…