Crime

In January of 2018, MIT Technology Review suggested that 978 million people worldwide lost $172 billion to cybercrime in 2017. That's $22.84 for every man, woman, and child on the planet. A study by Hiscox found that $50 billion a year…

Crypto crime is a major focus of the mainstream business press. And to be fair, the blockchain space has had more than its share of anonymous thefts for vast sums of money. But nowhere near as many as the legacy banking system, which often…

Bittrex is all set to delist Bitcoin Gold (BTG) thanks to a series of hacks that total more than $20 million in stolen funds. Bitcoin Gold is a hard fork of Bitcoin and it has gone through the wars of late. More than $18 million worth of…

If it can be, it will be. It’s inevitable that when a new technology emerges, it will be used to pirate music, movies, and other intellectual property. While the internet made sharing work easier, that ease also invited unparalleled levels…

The primary goals of various organized crime syndicates is usually nothing more than financial gain. As a consequence, the primary job of various law enforcement agencies is to neutralize the proceeds of crime and send a clear message to…

On the morning of Sunday February 11, 2018 malware used to mine the cryptocurrency Monero was detected on thousands of UK and US government sites. The cryptojacking attack infected websites including the United States Court System…

Several nuclear scientists working at the Federal Nuclear Centre in Sarov, Russia have been arrested for attempting to use the facility’s supercomputer to mine bitcoin, a process known as 'cryptojacking'. The BBC reports the Federal Nuclear…

The ICO ecosystem has been rocked by a large scale phishing attack in which investors eager to participate in promising home sharing startup BEE Token’s crowdsale were duped out of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Ethereum. In…

Asset seizure without charging a citizen with a crime is, I believe, an illegal activity. Aside from being wholly unconstitutional in nature, and a sign of the times, I fear it is a definitive sign of an unhealthy society. We see it all…