FBI’s Operation Blackout Dismantles Scammers Operating Overseas Targeting Americans
FBI Operation Blackout seized roughly $17 billion, arrested hundreds, and freed thousands of trafficked workers from overseas crypto-fraud scam compounds.
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Been told to pay at a Bitcoin ATM? Read this first
ESET details Bitcoin ATM impersonation scams; FBI logged 13,460 incidents costing victims $389 million in 2025, mostly hitting people over 50.
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Meme Coin Factories: Uncovering Large-Scale Manipulations on pump.fun
Large-scale pump.fun study of 15 million meme coins identifies five manipulation classes including wash trading and a Market-Manipulation-as-a-Service ecosystem.
China-Linked Jewelbug Uses XG-Web for Government Espionage and Crypto Fraud
China-linked Jewelbug runs government espionage and crypto fraud from a single XG-Web browser-based control framework.
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Researchers Link 'Jewelbug' Chinese APT to Hack-for-Hire Operations
Broadcom researchers link the Chinese APT group 'Jewelbug' to a lucrative crypto-fraud hack-for-hire operation.