An Australian citizen has pleaded guilty to cheating investors out of over $90 million by squandering money they invested in his New York-based cryptocurrency funds.Twenty four-year-old Stefan He Qin entered the plea to a single...
Read More49-year-old peer-to-peer crypto trader, Hugo Sergio Mejia, has agreed to plead guilty to charges of money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.The U.S. Attorney’s Office accuses Mejia of using a...
Read MoreThe Australian Securities and Investments Commission, or ASIC, has charged the former Australian national representative of BitConnect for his involvement in the multi-billion-dollar crypto Ponzi scheme.According to a Nov. 17...
Read MoreMicheal O’Leary — the CEO of major budget airline Ryanair — has come out very bearish on Bitcoin (BTC).Recently speaking to The Times, O’Leary likened Bitcoin to a Ponzi scheme and advised investors to avoid it:“I have never,...
Read MoreOn average, the ransom demanded by cryptocurrency ransomware hackers increased by 200% from 2018 to 2019.According to a report published on June 5 by cybersecurity firm Crypsis Group, the average ransom demanded by...
Read MoreMicrosoft’s security team revealed a new ransomware that is deployed in human-operated attacks. It uses “brute force” against a target company’s systems management server, and mainly has targeted the...
Read MoreNew York City resident Vitalii Antonenko was charged for allegedly participating in a $94 million Bitcoins-for-cards scheme, according to a May 27 statement from the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of...
Read MoreAn Australian woman was arrested by police at a Sydney shopping centre on May 1, after allegedly selling Bitcoin (BTC) for 60,000 Australian dollars ($38,800) in cash. According to a report from Daily Mail Australia, the...
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