The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has urged Southeast Asian countries to take strong measures against unlicensed virtual asset service providers (VASPs) in a new report. According to a 142-page page released on October 8, the involvement of some VASPs in facilitating illegal transactions for cybercrime groups
China’s efforts to clamp down on cryptocurrency-related crimes and enforce stricter regulations have taken a significant step forward. Zhang Moumou, the central figure in a vast crypto pyramid scheme, has been extradited to China from Thailand after an intense international search. This breakthrough marks the first time China has successfully
Crypto exchange Binance announces its ways to address the misuse actions by account holders. It stated that some of the platform’s features are exploited by users to gain unfair advantages including better fee rates and extending API limits. To prevent such actions, the exchange plans to reward individuals for reporting
Multiple rug pull scams occurred over the past few months in the crypto market. Amidst celebrity memecoin shillings and the launch of numerous new tokens, the scams have also shown a surge. Relatively, Doraemon themed token, DORAE originated in the market on Wednesday with signs of rug-pull within 24-hours of
A student of Chinese Zhejiang University, Yang Qichao issued a virtual currency token BFF in 2022. After the issuance, Qichao’s uninformed liquidity withdrawal caused a crypto investor, Luo, to lose 50,000 BSC-USDT coins that he exchanged for the tokens. This pushed Luo to file a complaint with the Nanyang Public
Two police officers in South Korea are facing trial over an alleged bribery case involving a high-profile crypto fraud case. It involves an alleged crypto fraudster surnamed Tak. Tak was accused of orchestrating an art-themed altcoin scam and for running a fake Ethereum and NFT-related project convincing people to invest
Over this week, the crypto industry is at risk due to the back-to-back lawsuit from SEC against the major crypto firms. However, the Australian Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is prepared to shut the crypto payments to some of the exchanges or keep them on hold concerning the scams. Following the CBA
Earlier today, a crypto token named ‘Thaddeus’ is been found as a scam. One crypto influencer, Eunice D Wong, was promoting this scam token. She was called out on Twitter and thereby apologized with a vow of returning the investor’s money back. This seems like Wong indulged in the Honeypot
Around 400 million Twitter user accounts were for sale on the black market, according to a report from a cybercrime intelligence company Hudson Rock. The report revealed a private database that is holding emails and associated phone numbers of the 400 Twitter users that were stolen by anonymous hackers and
The largest NFT marketplace OpenSea users underwent risk due to a new hack involving a feature on the OpenSea through phishing websites. As nonfungible tokens (NFTs) increased in popularity, scammers who frequently attempt to take advantage of users within the NFT market have increased in activity. OpenSea has a feature
