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Cryptocurrency is becoming a tool of the global criminal machine , and the problem is especially acute when it comes to drug trafficking. Newly released court documents reveal a stunning money laundering scheme in which the stablecoin Tether plays a central role. The investigation began with an...

Last week, over $50 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from the decentralized platform Radiant Capital. The company reported that the attack affected three developers who had long collaborated with the platform. Several information security specialists wrote on social networks that...

On November 14, a US court sentenced Ilya Lichtenstein to five years in prison for laundering money obtained as a result of the 2016 Bitfinex hack. Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan were arrested in February 2022 on suspicion of involvement in the attack on the exchange. At that time...

Russian and Swedish citizen Roman Sterlingov, previously found guilty of running the Bitcoin Fog cryptocurrency mixer from 2011 to 2021, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for aiding money laundering. Recall that this spring, Sterlingov was found guilty of running the Bitcoin Fog crypto mixer...

Last week, over $50 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from the decentralized platform Radiant Capital. The company reported that the attack affected three developers who had long collaborated with the platform. Several information security specialists wrote on social networks that...

On November 3, rapper Wiz Khalifa’s X* account posted messages promoting a coin called “WIZ.” The post, which claimed the musician was “working with a team to launch $WIZ for crypto fans,” was soon deleted , but by that time the coin had already attracted the attention of 35.7 million followers...