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Telegram Silently Dismantles $27B Darknet Giant Haowang Guarantee

May 16, 2025 by Mutuma Maxwell

Telegram has closed down the huge darknet marketplace Haowang Guarantee after prohibiting thousands of connected accounts and channels. This May 13 clampdown took down all infrastructure associated with it, rendering its crypto-powered criminal activities dysfunc­tional. Telegram’s enforcement action forced the platform, which used to be called Huione Guarantee, to close down officially. For a long […]

Filed Under: Cyber Security, News Tagged With: Blockchain, cyber crime, Telegram

U.S. Sanctions 49 Crypto Addresses Tied to Nemesis Darknet Site

March 5, 2025 by Mwongera Taitumu

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned 49 cryptocurrency addresses linked to a shut down darknet marketplace, Nemesis. The sanctioned addresses include 44 Bitcoin wallets and five Monero wallets. These addresses were allegedly controlled by Behrouz Parsarad, the Iranian national behind Nemesis, which operated illicit activities on the […]

Filed Under: News, Cyber Security Tagged With: Crypto, cyber crime, Nemesis

25-Year-Old Techie Nabbed For Hacking Websites, Carrying Out Bitcoin-Related Illicit Activities

November 23, 2020 by Chayanika Deka

Since the inception of Bitcoin, it has made it attractive to illicit online actors. Cryptocurrency’s latest rally and rise to popularity have once again made it highly lucrative for malicious actors. In recent developments, the Karnataka Police Central Crime Branch [CCB] arrested a 25-year-old software engineer for allegedly hacking websites to steal data and money […]

Filed Under: Bitcoin News, Cyber Security Tagged With: cyber crime, India

Binance Exchange Helps Ukrainian Police Nab $42M Money Laundering Darknet Cartel

August 19, 2020 by Arnold Kirimi

Ukrainian law enforcement praised the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, for its input in helping to take down a large-scale darknet money laundering cartel. Ukrainian cyber-police teamed up with Binance to take down a group of cyber attackers for their role in $42 million ransomware and money laundering operations. According to a joint statement made by […]

Filed Under: Industry Tagged With: Binance, cyber crime, law enforcement

Hackers Steal $3.1 Million in Bitcoin From Crypto Exchange Cashaa

July 14, 2020 by Arnold Kirimi

The U.K.-based crypto exchange, Cashaa, claims that hackers stole 336 bitcoins worth about $3.1 million from the exchange. The exchange firm has now halted all cryptocurrency transactions, such as withdrawals and deposits, in order to pave the way for security breach investigations. Cashaa revealed through a tweet that the attacker hacked one of their wallets […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bitcoin (BTC), crypto exchange, cryptojacking malware, cyber crime, Hackers

Corporate Credit Card Info, Personal Data Leaked in Cognizant Ransomware Attack

June 23, 2020 by Yvette Mwendwa

Cognizant cyber solutions firm has notified both employees and the California state regulators that the majority of private information that was compromised during the April Cognizant ransomware attack involved corporate credit cards. The credit cards were issued to the firm’s employees. Back in April Maze attackers orchestrated the Cognizant ransomware attack. The firm has now […]

Filed Under: Industry Tagged With: cognizant, cyber crime, Hackers, ransomware

Child Pornography Ring Leader Sees Crypto Assets Frozen by Seoul Court

June 4, 2020 by Arnold Kirimi

A justice court in Seoul has agreed to the petition by prosecutors requesting to freeze cryptocurrency wallets belonging to the leader of the Nth Room case. In addition, the court also froze all the security deposits, and stock accounts of the alleged child pornography ring leader.  The accused, Cho Ju-bin is the suspected head of […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Crypto Adoption, Crypto Wallets, Cryptocurrency, cyber crime, Monero (XMR)

Free Ross Billboard Spotted in New York’s Times Square

May 23, 2020 by Arnold Kirimi

A ‘Free Ross’ billboard, demanding for the release of Ross Ulbritch, the founder of Silk Road darknet market, was spotted on Times Square on May 21. It appears the ‘FREE ROSS’ movement has leased a billboard in New York’s Times Square as they advocate for the liberation of Ross. As per a tweet by ‘Clemency […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bitcoin (BTC), crypto indusrty, cyber crime, fbi

COVID-19 Research Supercomputers Infected With Crypto-Jacking Malware

May 19, 2020 by Arnold Kirimi

European COVID-19 research supercomputers were hacked and infected with crypto-mining malware by an anonymous cyber-crime gang over the past one week. More than ten supercomputers in Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Switzerland were attacked by a group of hackers to illegally mine cryptocurrencies. Moreover, following the crypto-jacking of COVID-19 research supercomputers, some of them […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, crypto-jacking, cryptojacking malware, cyber crime

Australian Woman Indicted Over Illegal Exchange of Bitcoin worth $5M

May 17, 2020 by Arnold Kirimi

In what is being reported as Australia’s first cyber crime sees an Australian woman indicted for allegedly running an unregistered crypto currency exchange. In addition, the woman aged 52, was seized at a shopping center in Burwood, Sidney on May 14, for laundering over$5 million in crypto through the exchange. The woman was allegedly part […]

Filed Under: Industry Tagged With: Australia, Bitcoin (BTC), Crypto Regulations, Cryptocurrency Exchange, cyber crime

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