#cryptocurrencies

North Korea on Tuesday dismissed as “absurd rhetoric” US allegations that it was behind a $6 billion cryptocurrency heist on the Binance platform, saying they proved Washington remained hostile towards it, ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said on Saturday it has been able to cover 90 per cent of the amount stolen after a record $6.3 billion hack of its platform. The outstanding 10 per cent ...

Hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, in a theft that analysts blamed on North Korea and said could be the largest financial heist of all ...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator, has urged the European Commission to overhaul the bloc’s crypto regulations to tackle market fraud and ...

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A case of electronic fraud is being investigated after a Limassol online services company reported that 176,580 cryptocurrencies had been stolen from its accounts. Police are investigating the complaint by the ...

Large sums of money and luxury cars have been confiscated, while €24 million worth of cryptocurrencies have been frozen, in the framework of a Europol and Eurojust joint operation to clamp ...

Sam Bankman-Fried will prepare for his fraud trial from a Brooklyn jail where inmates ranging from convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to Honduras’ former president have complained of subpar conditions. ...

Sam Bankman-Fried was released on a $250 million bond package while he awaits trial on fraud charges related to the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have ...

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday and charged by the US Department of Justice on Tuesday with defrauding investors in what regulators called a “brazen, ...

The police cybercrime unit has issued a warning that suspicious password hacking messages continue on social media, particularly Instagram. Specifically, users receive a message from a person they know on ...

A lawsuit by FTX account holders in the United States is likely the first of many that will be brought over billions of dollars in losses on the cryptocurrency exchange, ...

Police on Thursday warned the public to beware of online fraud as they investigate a complaint by a 49-year-old man that he had been defrauded out of €44,500 he believed was ...

Ether fell about 1 per cent on Wednesday ahead of a technical adjustment to its underlying ethereum blockchain that would alter the way transactions are processed. The revamp is currently anticipated ...

Chia, a newcomer into the cryptocurrency market, has tried to differentiate itself from Bitcoin by flaunting its green credentials. But what exactly is Chia and what are the ramifications of ...

Only 10 per cent of institutional investment firms surveyed by JPMorgan trade cryptocurrencies, with nearly half labelling the emerging asset class as “rat poison” or predicting it would be a temporary ...

With Phoenician blood in their veins, Cypriots should be particularly wary of falling into the digital currency trap By Christos P. Panayiotides I have little doubt that part of the ...

Losses from cryptocurrency theft, hacks and fraud fell sharply in the first four months of the year, but crime in the booming “decentralized finance” space hit an all-time high, a ...