The blockchain was supposed to revolutionize trust. Instead, it’s revolutionizing cybercrime. Every foundational principle that makes blockchain technology secure—decentralization, immutability, global accessibility—has been systematically inverted by sophisticated threat actors into the most ...

On 08SEP2025, the District of Columbia's Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Athena, a "Bitcoin ATM machine" provider with 4100+ BTMs installed. Athena charges as much as a 26% fee when someone ...

This is a short, gentle two-part introduction to basic cryptographic concepts using text-based crypto examples. The videos illustrate encryption, decryption, ciphers, keys, algorithms, code cracking, cryptanalysis, and letter frequency analysis.  Full disclosure: ...

Noah Michael Urban, a 20-year-old Florida man, was sentenced for his role as a member of the notorious Scattered Spider threat group in a series of phishing and other scams between 2022 ...

U.S. authorities seized $2.8 million crypto and $70,000 from Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko, who they say used the Zeppelin ransomware to attack companies in the United States and elsewhere and then laundered the ...

Quantum codebreaking uses a theoretically “large” quantum computer to break secret codes. Today, quantum computers handle very tiny numbers. The most impressive examples deal with numbers less than 22. In theory, a ...

 I recently came across a victim’s story, in how she was scammed online and ultimately lost all her cryptocurrency.  In reading the story, and extrapolating from my four decades of working against ...

The DOJ announced a far-reaching operation that aimed to knock out a substantial number of North Korean IT worker scams that have victimized more than 100 U.S. companies that unwittingly hired North ...

DoJ, FBI, USSS yoinked USDT: Pretty girls plus investment fraud equals forfeiture recovery (eventually) ...

The Iranian government has sharply restricted internet access in the country following almost a week of Israeli airstrikes and a cyberattacks on an Iranian bank and cryptocurrency exchange by a pro-Israeli hacker ...