On May 19, 2023, Tejay Fletcher, the administrator behind the fraud-enabling website iSpoof, was sentenced to more than 13 years…
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Executive summary Here’s a brief summary of the key findings and takeaways from the research presented in this report: Opioids…
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On May 23, 2023, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs…
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On May 19, 2023, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned 22 individuals and 104 entities operating…
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On May 16, 2023, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Mikhail Matveev, a Russian national…
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Qubit was a South Korea-based DeFi lending protocol built on the BNB chain. Qubit also ran an associated protocol, the…
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On April 24, 2023, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned three individuals operating…
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On April 14, 2023, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned individuals and entities in China and Latin America…
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On April 4, 2023, authorities shut down popular fraud shop Genesis Market and arrested hundreds of its users around the…
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New updates, 4/6/23: Hacker returns stolen funds, marking one of the largest DeFi recoveries Several weeks after the $197 million…
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As we’ve covered previously, 2022 was the biggest year in crypto hacking history, with more than $3.8 billion stolen. However,…
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Deadbolt is a ransomware strain that first became active around January 2021, and operates very differently from other notable strains…
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Pump and dump schemes in traditional finance are quite simple: Holders of a tradable asset, such as stock in a…
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While scams remain the largest form of cryptocurrency-based crime (that is, if we ignore transactions associated with OFAC-sanctioned entities, which…
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Our data shows ransomware strains related to Trickbot extorted at least $724M worth of crypto, making Trickbot the 2nd highest earning cybercrime group.
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