Crimes | ForkLog - Part 128

ForkLog 11 30.10.2020

Investors allege Lyfcoin fraud worth £2.5m

A group of 14 British investors reported losses from staking Lyfcoin's token. They contacted the police, but authorities did not see any signs of a crime, according to Metro.

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ForkLog 9 30.10.2020

Harvest Finance offers $1 million bounty for return of stolen funds

The Harvest Finance team has increased the bounty for help in recovering funds stolen from the platform. Instead of the initial $100,000, the developers are prepared to pay $1 million.

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ForkLog 11 30.10.2020

In Moscow, 13 call-centre staff arrested for laundering money through cryptocurrency

Moscow police have detained suspects in connection with running a call centre whose staff siphoned money from citizens' bank accounts, according to the local Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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ForkLog 8 29.10.2020

Atlas VPN study finds blockchain industry has lost $13.6 billion to hacker attacks

Since 2012 the blockchain industry has lost more than $13.6 billion due to 330 hacker attacks, according to Atlas VPN.

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ForkLog 12 29.10.2020

KuCoin-stolen bitcoins pass through ChipMixer

Hackers began moving bitcoins stolen from the KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange in September. Elliptic analysts reported this, The Block.

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ForkLog 12 29.10.2020

REvil ransomware group estimates annual income at over $100m

The annual earnings of the hacker group behind the ransomware REvil (Sodinokibi) exceeded $100m. In an interview with the YouTube channel Russian OSINT, a member of the group, going by the aliases "UNKN" and "Unknown," spoke about some details of its operations.

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ForkLog 16 29.10.2020

FBI warns US healthcare providers of imminent TrickBot attack wave

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned U.S. healthcare facilities about the “growing and imminent threat” of TrickBot ransomware attacks. The agencies said in a joint statement.

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ForkLog 10 28.10.2020

Dutch traders sentenced to prison for laundering €16 million in Bitcoin

A couple from Hilversum, Netherlands, were sentenced to prison on charges of money laundering through cryptocurrency, according to NL Times.

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ForkLog 15 28.10.2020

Bank of Russia identified 140 pyramid schemes, some offering investments in cryptocurrencies

The Bank of Russia identified more than a thousand illegally operating organisations on the financial market over the first nine months of 2020. Some of them showed signs of pyramid schemes and offered investments in cryptocurrencies and tokens, writes Izvestia, citing the Bank of Russia.

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ForkLog 9 28.10.2020

Cred, the crypto-lending platform, reports loss of funds due to fraud

The Cred crypto-lending platform, which has joined the Visa ecosystem, notified its users of an incident that required law-enforcement involvement. CoinDesk reports.

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ForkLog 11 28.10.2020

Court to hear case of former FSB investigators accused of extortion of 65 million rubles in bitcoins

The case of former FSB investigators Alexey Kolbov and Sergey Belousov, accused of extorting 65 million rubles in bitcoins, has progressed to the final stage and will be heard on its merits by the 2nd Western District Military Court, Kommersant reports.

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ForkLog 10 28.10.2020

Harvest Finance explains hacker attack as an ‘engineering error’

The developers of the Harvest Finance DeFi protocol have taken responsibility for an 'engineering error' that allowed the hacker to carry out the recent attack and steal $19.8 million.

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