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ForkLog 29 06.11.2023

Mango Markets attacker moved to jail alongside Sam Bankman-Fried

The trial of Avraham Eisenberg, accused in the Mango Markets attack, has been postponed to next year, court documents indicate. The hearing was originally scheduled for December 4, but the defense requested a delay after their client was unexpectedly transferred from a prison in New Jersey to a Brooklyn detention center. It was to that facility that the founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, was sent in August, where he remains after his guilty plea.

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ForkLog 26 06.11.2023

Tonwex Bitcoin exchange robbed of more than $810,000 in Georgia

On October 30, in Tbilisi, an armed group attacked the Tonwex cryptocurrency exchange and stole more than 2.18 million lari in various assets.

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ForkLog 22 02.11.2023

Founders of SafeMoon Charged in Multi-Million-Dollar Scam

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York has charged the founders and executives of the DeFi project SafeMoon with a multi-million-dollar fraud.

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ForkLog 20 01.11.2023

Hackers drain $2.1 million from Onyx Protocol

The lending DeFi platform Onyx Protocol lost about $2.1 million following an exploit of an illiquid market deployed on October 27.

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ForkLog 28 01.11.2023

Taiwanese man surnamed Chiu and three accomplices charged in country’s largest cryptocurrency money-laundering scheme

A Taiwanese resident surnamed Chiu and three of his accomplices were charged in the country's largest cryptocurrency money-laundering scheme.

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ForkLog 60 25.10.2023

Spanish court accuses hacker of advising the ‘Russian mafia’ on Bitcoin

Investigation into hacker Denis Katana, also known as Denis Tokarenko, over aiding the laundering of funds for a Russian crime syndicate via Bitcoin has concluded in Spain.

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ForkLog 38 23.10.2023

Expert spots movement of ~4800 BTC from the closed Abraxas darknet market

Unknown actors moved ~4800 BTC ($144 million) from the Abraxas darknet marketplace, whose team carried out an exit scam in November 2015. On-chain sleuth ZachXBT drew attention to it.

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ForkLog 21 23.10.2023

In Moscow, the accused in NFT scam involving 670,000 USDT is arrested

A Moscow court placed the accused in custody on charges of fraudulently soliciting funds under the guise of investments in an NFT project.

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ForkLog 16 23.10.2023

In Kyiv, suspects detained over attack on a Bitcoin entrepreneur

Kyiv law enforcement authorities identified the identities of four residents of Cherkasy, aged 21 to 25, allegedly involved in extorting cryptocurrency from a Kyiv-based entrepreneur.

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ForkLog 16 19.10.2023

Russian national charged with creating an illegal Bitcoin exchange in Kazakhstan

The Kostanay court is examining the criminal case against the founder of kzobmen.com, a cryptocurrency exchange that provided services without a licence.

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ForkLog 11 18.10.2023

Shanghai schoolteacher funds scammer’s Bitcoin purchase with $546,000

A 38-year-old Shanghai schoolteacher fell for a scammer and funded his purchase of the first cryptocurrency to 4 million yuan ($546,000).

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ForkLog 22 17.10.2023

Fantom Foundation reports hack worth hundreds of thousands of dollars

Fantom Foundation representatives said the hack affected one of the organization's wallets due to a zero-day vulnerability in the Google Chrome browser.

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