North Korea Is Now Mining Crypto to Launder Its Stolen Loot

By Andy Greenberg — March 28^th 2023 at 15:00

A spy group working for the Kim regime has been feeding stolen coins into crypto mining services in an effort to throw tracers off their trail.

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Crypto Was Afraid to Show Its Face at SXSW 2023

By Eric Ravenscraft — March 26^th 2023 at 11:00

Any mention of crypto was deliberately veiled at this year’s festival. And that strategy might catch on.

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Crypto Buyers Beware: 1 in 4 New Tokens of Any Value Is a Scam

By Andy Greenberg — February 16^th 2023 at 13:00

And according to tracing firm Chainalysis, one very prolific scammer ran at least 264 of those scams in 2022 alone.

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Most Criminal Cryptocurrency Funnels Through Just 5 Exchanges

By Andy Greenberg — January 26^th 2023 at 17:00

The crypto money-laundering market is tighter than at any time in the past decade, and the few big players are moving a “shocking” amount of currency.

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I Lost $17,000 in Crypto. Here’s How to Avoid My Mistake

By Alexander Webb — November 24^th 2022 at 13:00

I’m not the first person to suffer this fate, but hopefully I can be the last.

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The Hunt for the FTX Thieves Has Begun

By Andy Greenberg — November 13^th 2022 at 23:38

Mysterious crooks took hundreds of millions of dollars from FTX just as it collapsed. Crypto-tracing blockchain analysis may provide an answer.

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Why the Twilio Breach Cuts So Deep

By Lily Hay Newman — August 26^th 2022 at 20:05

The phishing attack on the SMS giant exposes the dangers of B2B companies to the entire tech ecosystem.