An investor in the OneCoin cryptocurrency scheme is facing death threats after publicly speaking out about her ordeal. Besides death threats, Jen McAdam has also been threatened with sexual violence, according to the BBC. As one of the tens...
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The daughter of a Nigerian politician has been released after her father paid the kidnappers a $15,000 bitcoin ransom. On Saturday, Ai’sha Ardo, the daughter of Umar Ardo, a chieftain of the major Nigerian political party the People’s Democratic...
The Trump administration sanctioned North Korea’s Lazarus Group, which raked in $571 million from Bitcoin thefts. | Source: Shutterstock North Korea’s notorious state-sponsored hacker team Lazarus Group – the one responsible for stealing more than $500 million from Bitcoin...
BitMarket co-founder is at the center of a multi-million-dollar fraud investigation. | Image: Shutterstock The District Prosecutor’s Office in the Polish city of Suwałki has charged a co-founder of BitMarket.pl for committing fraud while operating the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange....
A near million-dollar bitcoin ransom has secured the freedom of a kidnapped Chinese national in Sydney. | Source: Shutterstock The Chinese pre-university student who was reported kidnapped late last month in Australia for 80 Bitcoin has been rescued and...
North Korea’s state press has hit back at a UN report accusing Kim Jong Un’s regime of stealing billions from banks and crypto exchanges to fund its nuclear program. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: North Korea (DPRK) is...
Stealing $63 million Crypto was not enough for the Gang’s Leader. Image from Shutterstock. An Indian Bitcoin fraudster defrauding its victims of nearly $63 million was brutally tortured and murdered by his accomplices after they had found out that...
The UN’s cyber czar blamed Bitcoin and other crypto assets for making it significantly harder to fight child sexual exploitation and other crimes. | Source: Twitter (i), Shutterstock (ii). Image Edited by CCN. By CCN Markets: A senior UN...
french cybercops have neutralized nearly a million computers infected by a crypto-mining mega botnet dubbed ‘Retadup’.| Source: Shutterstock The Retadup malware which had been deployed on hundreds of thousands of computers around the world to secretly mine the Monero...
The most persistent myth about bitcoin is that the dominant cryptocurrency allows users to make anonymous transactions. That myth may have contributed to the downfall of Tina Jones, an Illinois woman who will now spend 12 years in jail...