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ForkLog 44 02.05.2025

CIA Deputy Director Describes Bitcoin as a Tool Against China

CIA employs Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a tool against China and other geopolitical adversaries of the United States. This was stated by the agency’s Deputy Director, Michael Ellis, in a podcast with Anthony Pompliano, founder of Pomp Investments. According to him, digital assets have become an area of technological competition between the US and China, […]

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ForkLog 24 01.08.2024

Tucker Carlson’s Affection for Bitcoin and CIA Conspiracy Theories

American journalist Tucker Carlson holds the first cryptocurrency in high regard, yet he is convinced it was created by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). During a private event at Bitcoin 2024, the former Fox News host remarked that Bitcoin is the “best in the world” tool for ensuring financial sovereignty. “Obviously, it was the CIA, […]

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ForkLog 18 22.09.2023

Bitcoin lab leak: community revisits the NSA’s role

On 15 September, Iris Energy co-founder Daniel Roberts posted a screenshot of the NSA's 1996 article titled 'How to Make a Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash'.

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ForkLog 11 24.01.2023

FBI accuses Lazarus Group and APT38 of hacking the Horizon cross-chain bridge on the Harmony protocol for $100 million

North Korean hackers Lazarus Group and APT38 are involved in the June 2022 attack on the Horizon cross-chain bridge of the Harmony protocol, worth $100 million.

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ForkLog 11 30.08.2022

FBI Identifies Popular Attack Vectors Targeting the DeFi Sector

The FBI issued a warning about the most commonly exploited vulnerabilities used by cybercriminals to attack DeFi platforms.

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ForkLog 4 13.07.2022

Ukraine Seizes 50 Million Hryvnias and Nearly a Tonne of Silver from Suspects in Crypto Fraud

Fifty million hryvnias and 830 kg of silver were handed over to the National Asset Recovery Agency, seized from suspects in cryptocurrency market fraud.

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ForkLog 12 08.04.2022

FBI foiled plan to create Russian botnet on thousands of devices

U.S. FBI personnel repelled an attack by Russian hackers on thousands of routers and firewalls that were to be networked into a botnet to flood third-party servers with fraudulent traffic.

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ForkLog 4 24.02.2022

FBI plans to monitor activity across most liquid cryptocurrencies

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a request for proposals for software to track illicit use of cryptocurrencies.

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ForkLog 5 17.02.2022

FBI forms division to tackle cryptocurrency crimes

The FBI has formed a new division focused on on-chain activity analysis in decentralized networks, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said at the virtual Munich Cyber Security Conference.

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ForkLog 45 04.02.2022

Mining Express data centre in Ukraine had mining equipment seized

In late January, in Kropyvnytskyi, officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) seized an unspecified amount of equipment for cryptocurrency mining from premises belonging to the Mining Express data centre.

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ForkLog 8 22.12.2021

FBI Confiscates 3,879 BTC Stolen From a Cold Wallet

The U.S. Department of Justice said it had returned funds that were allegedly stolen from a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, converted into cryptocurrency, and later seized by the FBI during the investigation.

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ForkLog 13 01.12.2021

FBI seizes more than 39 BTC from wallet of Russian national linked to REvil

In August the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized about $2.3 million in cryptocurrency obtained from ransomware attacks by the REville group (also known as Sodinokibi).

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