The FBI announced the takedown of Hive, a ransomware network with members across multiple states in Europe and North America, in a recent press release. The US agency stated that they had been on the ...
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Oxford Fraudster Jailed as FBI Busts Ransomware Group
As an Oxford crypto fraudster is sentenced in the U.K., the FBI has infiltrated a global ransomware group. A former student at the Oxford University pleaded guilty to a single count of theft at Oxford...
FBI Infiltrates Hive Network, Foils $130M in Ransom Demands
FBI infiltrates a ransomware gang to help 300 victims and thwarts extortion of over $130 million. Hive Network targeted hospitals, schools, and banking in over 80 countries. The FBI says the operation...
FBI Confirms North Korea Was Behind $100 Million Harmony Hack
Hackers used a privacy protocol called RAILGUN to try to conceal their transactions. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has concluded its investigations into last year’s crypto hack that saw US...
Lazarus Group Responsible for $100M Horizon Bridge Hack: FBI
The FBI has confirmed the involvement of North Korea’s Lazarus Group and APT38 in the $100 million Harmony Horizon hack last year. The exploit of DeFi protocols was rampant in 2022, with cross-chain b...
Crypto Queen: The Five Year Escape from the FBI
Ruja Ignatova, the ‘Crypto Queen’ who was instrumental in the $4 billion OneCoin pyramid scheme scam in 2016, has been on the run from the FBI for five years. Crypto Queen: OneCoin scammer is one of t...
FBI Confirms North Korea Behind $100 Million Harmony Hack
The FBI announced Monday it has concluded that North Korean hacker organization Lazarus Group was behind the $100 million hack of Harmony Protocol last June. Over $60 million of ETH stolen during the...
FBI Names North Korean Groups Behind Harmony Bridge Hacks
On Monday, January 23, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a report confirming that two groups linked to North Korea were responsible for the $100 million hack of the Harmony Bridge la...
North Korea’s Lazarus Group masterminded $100M Harmony hack: FBI confirms
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed the Lazarus Group and APT38 as the culprits behind the $100 million Harmony Bridge Hack from June. The North Korea-linked cyber group had long b...
FBI confirms that Lazarus Group and APT38 engaged in currency theft
The FBI’s thorough investigation, which was duly and meticulously carried out, leads them to believe that the Lazarus Group and APT38 committed the theft from Harmony’s Horizon Bridge. As per the cont...
FBI confirms North Korean cybercrime groups stole crypto from Horizon Bridge
The FBI has identified two North Korean cybercrime groups in connection to the Horizon Bridge hack The bureau claimed that a portion of the stolen Ethereum (ETH) was converted to Bitcoin (BTC) The Uni...
Former FBI Official Accused Of Violating Russia Sanctions To Help Oligarch Oleg Deripaska
Topline A former FBI agent who once led counterintelligence in the bureau’s New York office was charged with money laundering and violating sanctions to benefit Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, prosec...
FBI confirms Lazarus Group and APT38 were responsible for $100 million bridge hack
The FBI confirmed Monday that Lazarus Group and APT 38 were behind a $100 million heist on proof-of-stake blockchain platform Harmony last June, and they attempted to launder the money through the RAI...
FBI Strikes Back: Seizes Millions in Bitcoin from Overseas Scammers
Bitcoins worth millions of dollars have been seized by the FBI. Scammers posing as US law enforcement personnel have been cheating people out of millions of dollars in Bitcoin in recent years. These s...
FBI Seizes Bitcoin From Overseas Scammers Who Posed as US Law Enforcement Officials – Featured Bitcoin News
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has seized bitcoin worth millions of dollars from overseas scammers targeting the elderly. The scammers posed as members of U.S. law enforcement agenc...
Manchin Says Biden Should ‘Have A Lot Of Regrets’ After FBI Finds More Classified Documents
Topline Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Sunday President Joe Biden should “have a lot of regrets” about how he handled classified documents, following the FBI’s discovery of additional classified reco...
DOJ Finds More Classified Documents Following Search Of Biden’s Wilmington Residence
Topline The Justice Department discovered additional documents including some with classified markings at President Joe Biden’s Wilmington residence following a thorough search of the property on Frid...
Secret Brett Kavanaugh Documentary ‘Justice’ Debuts At Sundance: Here’s What To Know
Topline Filmmaker Doug Liman’s documentary on the controversial appointment and sexual assault claims against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh—kept quiet before it’s surprise premiere at the Sund...
FBI Offers $25,000 Rewards For Info About Attacks On Reproductive Care Clinics
Topline The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday began offering rewards of up to $25,000 for information about a series of attacks on at least 10 reproductive health care facilities across the ...
Justice Department Declined Using FBI For Biden Document Search, Report Says
Topline The Justice Department recently decided against calling in FBI agents to monitor searches of President Joe Biden’s homes for classified documents, according to the Wall Street Journal, after r...
Kwon Warns To Call FBI on ‘Someone’ Who Wrongly Received 1.3M LUNA
TFL accused a community member, Jimmy, of refusing to return misallocated airdrops. Jimmy responded to the claim stating the company had inadequate communication strategies. The user received 1,347,81...
Republicans Launch House Committee To Investigate FBI—Including Agency’s Handling Of Trump
Topline Republicans on Tuesday voted to create a House committee to investigate federal investigations, which could include reviewing the probes involving former President Donald Trump, setting up a l...
Do Kwon Threatens to Involve FBI After Accidental LUNA Airdrop
One Terra community member stated that he had accidentally received $1.5 million in Luna. Terraform Labs stated that he is refusing to return the funds, and Do Kwon suggested that the FBI should be in...
Police Now Offering $500,000 For Information On Capitol Hill Pipe Bombs—As Unsolved Case Reaches Two-Year Mark
Topline The FBI and its partners have dramatically increased the reward for information about a suspect who planted pipe bombs at the Republican and Democratic national committee headquarters on the e...
With Electrical Grids Under Assault, U.S. And Ukraine Seek Scarce Transmission Gear
An autotransformer completely destroyed after a Russian Attack. Getty Images Russia, eager to break Ukraine’s power grid, is subjecting Ukrainian electrical substations to a withering array of missile...
Russian Attacks On Ukraine Power Grid May Be Global
Sabotage of U.S. electrical substations make it harder for Ukraine to recover from Russian attacks Getty Images Russia is repeatedly attacking Ukraine’s power grid, subjecting electrical substations t...
FBI probing 3Commas API leak
Earlier this week, an unnamed source revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the 3Commas data breach. The Estonian crypto trading platform 3Commas made headlines after...
The FBI reiterates a warning about pig-butchering crypto scam
The FBI has recently issued a stern warning about the widespread crypto investment scam, “pig butchering.” According to an expert from the bureau, people must remain vigilant when using social media a...
FBI Renews Warning About Pig Butchering Crypto Scam Sweeping the Country – Featured Bitcoin News
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has reiterated its warning about a very popular crypto investment scam called “pig butchering” that is sweeping across the U.S. “Be very careful when you go o...
FBI warns investors over crypto fraud wave in the US
The FBI is warning of increasing “pig butchering” in the US, a wave that has seen citizens lose millions of dollars to scammers. Frank Fisher, a public affairs expert in the bureau’s Albuquerque secti...
FBI agent who arrested ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ comments on SBF case
Retired FBI agent Gregory Coleman, known for being a major facilitator of The Wolf of Wall Street’s arrest and asset seizure, posted some comments on the ongoing Sam Bankman-Fried case. In an intervie...