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Coins•Oct 16, 2026

Microsoft Uncovers USDT-Funded Phishing Operation Targeting 75,000 Organizations

Key Highlights An international coalition of tech leaders, including Microsoft and Cloudflare, partnered with Japanese and U.S. law enforcement to disrupt a sprawling Chinese-language phishing-as-a-service ecosystem. Key criminal suppliers—including YAM Store, CoGUI, and Iron Man—provided compromised Google and Microsoft accounts, cloud hosting, and over 2,300 brand-spoofing phishing templates. Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs aided in ...

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Coins•Oct 15, 2026

How Brooklyn Prosecutors and FBI Dismantled Massive Crypto Scam Targeting Russian Speakers

Key Highlights The FBI and the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office have seized or disrupted 241 fraudulent websites and 112 servers linked to an extensive cryptocurrency investment scheme. Operating from Ukraine and other Eastern European nations, the syndicate stole tens of millions of dollars primarily from Russian-speaking victims across the United States. Victims who lost their ...

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Coins•Oct 9, 2026

China Releases Three-Part Documentary on ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams

Key Highlights Large-scale “pig butchering” scam syndicates in northern Myanmar operate city-sized compounds complete with full internal economies, private militias, and thousands of trafficked workers. Chinese law enforcement has mobilized nearly 100,000 personnel, extradited over 50,000 Chinese nationals, and handed down harsh sentences—including prison time and the death penalty—to crime bosses from dominant syndicates such ...

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Coins•Sep 18, 2026

Revolut Hackers Demand 6,000 XMR as Italy Opens Data Probe

Key Highlights Italian prosecutors and anti-mafia authorities have launched an investigation after hackers allegedly compromised an Italian government email account to steal sensitive data from at least 680 Revolut customers. The group “iamnotavillain” demanded 6,000 Monero (XMR), valued at approximately $3 million, threatening to sell passports, driving licenses, identity photos, and transaction histories if the ...

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Coins•Sep 10, 2026

Ringleader of $245M Crypto Theft Pleads Guilty

Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Miami resident originally from Singapore, pleaded guilty Tuesday to orchestrating one of the largest Bitcoin thefts in history. Lam admitted to serving as the ringleader of an international cybercrime group that stole 4,100 bitcoins — valued at over $230 million at the time of the theft — to finance an extravagant ...

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