Iran is giving $24 to anyone who dobs in illegal crypto miners

The United States Department of Justice released a fifteen-count indictment on May 9 that charges a hacking group labeled “The Community” with SIM swapping in order to steal cryptocurrencies.U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider and his colleague from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Angie Salazar announced the charges in the Eastern District of Michigan. Per Salazar,…

Wirex cards may stop working in the European Economic Area, but funds held in the account are safe, the company said. Debit cards offered through crypto payment service Wirex may stop functioning in the European Economic Area (EEA), according to a June 23 email the company sent to some of its customers. The threat of…

Optimism’s freshly launched governance token OP has plunged 40% since peaking at $2.10, leading members of the community to discuss baring those who dumped their tokens from future airdrops. Cointelegraph reported yesterday that the Ethereum Layer-2 scaling solution was overwhelmed with demand for the first OP governance token airdrop, as 5% of the token supply…

Any country seeing widespread use of Facebook’s proposed Libra digital currency could find that its central bank monetary policy is severely undermined. This is the view of Hiromi Yamaoka, former Bank of Japan executive, who oversaw research into digital currencies for the organization.“The emergence of Libra would pressure policymakers to discipline themselves”Issues are likely to…

The price of Bitcoin (BTC) rose by 2% in just 30 minutes right as the United States' stock market rang its opening bell on Nov. 3. During pre-market, the Dow Jones surged by over 350 points as the U.S. election day triggered massive volatility.The four reasons that likely led to a Bitcoin uptrend in such…

Sunday, May 12 — most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting moderate losses on the day by press time, as bitcoin (BTC) holds over the $7,000 mark.Market visualization courtesy of Coin360Bitcoin is down about 1.5 percent on the day, trading at $7,040 at press time, according to CoinMarketCap. Still, BTC is also over six…

Ethereum’s Dencun upgrade has “greatly improved” the economics of Ethereum rollups. However, Galaxy says it also brought more failed transactions.

As companies continue to fall for hacks and exploits, professionals working in the cybersecurity space chipped in on what can be improved in terms of crypto security for digital asset companies and the broader crypto industry. Before September, almost $1 billion had already been lost to crypto hacks, exploits and scams in 2023. Yet, more incidents