Crypto crime

A Guardian investigation has uncovered proof linking Northampton-based crypto entrepreneur Fasial Tariq to what authorities described because the world’s largest unlawful weight-loss drug operation. The revelation comes amid a worldwide surge in crypto-related crime, prompting coordinated crackdowns from legislation enforcement businesses. In late October, enforcement officers raided a red-brick industrial unit in Northampton, seizing 1000’s…

A 21-year-old Ukrainian scholar was tortured and burned alive in Vienna after attackers compelled him to disclose passwords to his crypto wallets, emptying his digital accounts earlier than setting him on fireplace in his father’s Mercedes. According to local reports, two suspects, a fellow scholar aged 19 and a 45-year-old Ukrainian nationwide, fled to their…

A San Francisco resident was robbed of $11 million in cryptocurrency after a thief posing as a supply driver pressured his means into a house and carried out a violent early-morning assault, marking one of many largest recognized particular person crypto robberies in the United States this 12 months. According to a San Francisco police…

Federal prosecutors have charged 19-year-old Thalha Jubair, a British nationwide from London, with orchestrating a collection of cyberattacks that extorted greater than $115 million from American corporations and authorities businesses. According to an unsealed complaint in the District of New Jersey, Jubair led the hacker collective referred to as Scattered Spider, which carried out a…

The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned 19 entities throughout Myanmar and Cambodia for working large crypto rip-off networks that defrauded Americans of over $10 billion in 2024 alone. The coordinated motion targets transnational felony organizations utilizing compelled labor and human trafficking to perpetrate “pig butchering” scams. The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated 9 targets in…