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Iran Shuts Down Over 8,000 Illegal Crypto Mining Farms in 3 Aastaid

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Authorities in Iran have closed down more than 8,000 underground facilities for cryptocurrency mining in the past three years, local media reported. Despite the government’s crackdown, illegal crypto mining continues to account for a serious amount of energy consumption, official figures…

Crypto Exchange Bitrue Suffers $23 Million Hack

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Singapore-based crypto exchange Bitrue has lost millions of U.S. dollars’ worth of ether and other coins in a hack. The trading platform suspended withdrawals until early next week to conduct additional security checks and promised to compensate the affected users. Bitrue…

Russian Court Sends 3 Crypto Robbers to Strict-Regime Prison

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Three Russians are going to spend time in high-security prison for stealing over a million U.S. dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency from another man. Lisaks, the court has also ordered them to fully compensate the victim for the damages, prosecutors announced….

North Korea Stole Record Amount of Crypto Assets in 2022, UN Report Unveils

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The regime in North Korea has managed to steal more cryptocurrency last year than in previous years, according to a draft U.N. aruanne. Despite the difference between quoted estimates, the authors conclude that 2022 was a record-breaking year for crypto theft,…

Endine FTX inseneridirektor USA õiguskaitseorganite kontrolli all, Väidetavad pakkumise istungid toimusid prokuröridega New Yorgis

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USA. Õiguskaitseametnikud uurivad väidetavalt Nishad Singhit, endine FTX inseneridirektor, vastavalt raportile, milles viidatakse asjaga tuttavatele inimestele. Veel üks aruanne, avaldatud jaanuaril. 10, 2023, üksikasjad, mida Singh kohtus föderaalprokuröridega…

Põhja-Korea Lazaruse grupp on seotud uue krüptovaluuta häkkimisskeemiga

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The Lazarus group, a North Korean hacking organization previously linked to criminal activity, has been connected to a new attack scheme to breach systems and steal cryptocurrency from third parties. The campaign, which uses a modified version of an already existing…

Venelane arreteeriti väärtpaberi kaevandamise riistvara ostjate petmise eest $300,000

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Police in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan have detained a man accused of defrauding people who wanted to purchase crypto miners. Law enforcement officials say the suspect made millions of rubles through fictitious sales of mining devices to Russian citizens…

Security Service of Ukraine Shuts Down Crypto Mining Farm Near Front Line in Kharkiv

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Ukraina’s main law enforcement agency has busted an illegal facility mining cryptocurrencies in the Kharkiv region. The operators of the crypto farm have been minting coins using large amounts of stolen electricity, threatening energy supply to critical infrastructure, the agency said….

Former CEO of Crypto Exchange Wex Dmitry Vasiliev Reportedly Detained in Croatia

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Dmitry Vasiliev, co-owner and former chief executive of the now defunct Russian crypto exchange Wex, has been arrested upon entering Croatia, local media reported. The crypto entrepreneur is wanted by Kazakhstan where he is accused of stealing money from an investor….