A former FBI agent has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $2.5 million from the wallets of fraud victims and nation-state hackers under investigation. [...]
The US Department of the Treasury has cut off the MEXC Global crypto exchange from the US financial system over sanctions evasion and links with cybercrime gangs. [...]
A federal grand jury indicted two Canadians suspected of hacking multiple US universities and using the compromised systems to mine for cryptocurrency. [...]
The maintainer of BTCPay Server, an open-source cryptocurrency payment processor, has urged users to install the latest version as hackers have been draining "hot wallets" on instances running older versions. [...]
Hardware wallet device maker Trezor has received credible reports about a suspected hardware crypto-theft implant in a Trezor Safe 5 sold by its reseller CryptoBilis in Southeast Asia. [...]
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, has linked the theft of about $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency to a DevOps engineer's compromised laptop. [...]
Prediction market platform Polymarket temporarily suspended trading on Thursday after hackers compromised a third-party service to distribute cryptocurrency-draining JavaScript, with approximately $2.5 million in assets traced to a suspected attacker wallet. [...]
Ledger has asked resellers and distributors of its wallets in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Hong Kong to suspend device sales and remove products from shelves while it investigates device tampering. [...]
Ledger has confirmed that some of its devices distributed through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis were compromised with a hardware implant that drained users' cryptocurrency wallets. [...]