Crimes | ForkLog - Part 104

ForkLog 9 26.04.2021

In Moscow, a father accused his son of embezzling 100 million rubles in cryptocurrency

A 45-year-old Moscow resident reported to the police after not receiving more than 100 million rubles from the family cryptocurrency mining operation.

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ForkLog 20 26.04.2021

Scammers in Russia sold around 1 billion rubles’ worth of counterfeit notes for cryptocurrency

The Kstovo City Court in the Nizhny Novgorod region began examining the criminal case of an interregional criminal group that, over two years, managed to print and sell about 1 billion counterfeit rubles.

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ForkLog 8 23.04.2021

Ukrainian resident suspected of stealing cryptocurrency from a trading platform

Kherson police conducted a search of a local resident suspected of stealing cryptocurrency.

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ForkLog 38 23.04.2021

Sixty-two detained in Turkey over ties to Thodex crypto exchange

The Turkish prosecutor's office, as part of the investigation into the alleged exit scam of the Thodex bitcoin exchange, issued arrest warrants for 78 people connected with the platform. 62 of them have already been detained, according to The Associated Press.

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ForkLog 43 22.04.2021

Turkish Bitcoin Exchange Suspected of Exit Scam

On 20 April, the Turkish cryptocurrency trading platform Thodex unexpectedly halted trading, and users were also concerned by the exchange's head closing its accounts on Twitter and Instagram, according to the BBC.

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ForkLog 14 22.04.2021

Russian woman handed almost 1 million rubles to ‘cryptocurrency’ scammers

A criminal group defrauded a 43-year-old resident of Kazan of 970,000 rubles, posing as trading and deposit-insurance services.

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ForkLog 25 21.04.2021

REvil hackers hit Apple supplier, demand $50 million ransom

Taiwanese computer hardware maker and one of Apple's main suppliers, Quanta Computer, was subjected to a ransomware attack by the hacker group REvil (Sodinokibi).

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ForkLog 19 21.04.2021

Fraudsters clone Bitmain’s website to steal cryptocurrency from miners

Amid a shortage of ASIC miners, a fraud scheme targeting buyers of Bitcoin mining hardware from Bitmain has circulated.

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ForkLog 14 20.04.2021

DeFi project EasyFi loses $6 million in hack

Hackers siphoned off around $6 million from EasyFi's liquidity pools.

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ForkLog 10 19.04.2021

Bitsonar pyramid founder Alexander Tovstenko remanded in custody until June 19

On April 19, the Primorsky District Court of Odessa extended by two months the detention of Alexander Tovstenko, founder of the Bitsonar pyramid, who is accused of organizing the murder of a former colleague.

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ForkLog 11 19.04.2021

Kaliningrad resident loses more than 5 million rubles trying to profit from cryptocurrencies

A Kaliningrad Oblast resident turned to law enforcement authorities after losing over 5.5 million rubles trying to profit from trading securities and cryptocurrencies.

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ForkLog 34 16.04.2021

Troll factory-linked cryptocurrency addresses hit by U.S. sanctions

The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added a number of cryptocurrency addresses to the sanctions list, linked to individuals and entities believed to have aided Russian intelligence services in meddling in the U.S. elections and disseminating disinformation.

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