Rise in ransomware beaten back by blockchain boffins
NetWalker, a notorious form of ransomware-as-a-service, has been targeted by the American Department of Justice (DoJ) in a recent...
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
Michael Bacina, Partner, Travers Thorp Alberga
NetWalker, a notorious form of ransomware-as-a-service, has been targeted by the American Department of Justice (DoJ) in a recent...
Another step forward in the longstanding Mt Gox saga has been taken, with creditors of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange finally being...
Alexander Vinnik, involved in the notorious BTC-e exchange in the EU, and the subject of a long running expedition battle between France,...
Macau, a special administrative region of China with a gaming industry seven(!) times larger than that of Las Vegas, has been rattled by...
On Monday, the Australian Financial Review reported that Levitas Capital, a Sydney-based hedge find, was the target of a fake Zoom invite...
Recently, blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis announced it was launching a program designed to manage and store cryptocurrency seized...
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) working with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Crown Prosecutors...
The US District Court for the District of Colorado has entered a judgment against Venture Capital Investments for misappropriation of funds
Interest rippled through the bitcoin community recently when a digital wallet containing roughly $1 billion in stolen bitcoin — thought...
Lawsuit alleges BitMex officers 'looted' $440M from parent company, following investigations by the CFTC and the DOJ
The US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued its first-ever financial penalty against a Bitcoin mixer. FinCEN, the US...
The Department of Justice has released a Cyber Digital Task Force report titled "Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework"
the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS)has issued a report dissecting the July 2020 Twitter hack
Dick Smith is threatening to sue The Guardian due to advertisements on their website indicating that Smith supports a cryptocurrency scam
BitMEX has been hit with multiple significant claims in the US, for various breaches of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Bank Secrecy Act
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will pay any contractor $625,000 if they can trace the privacy-centric crypto asset monero (XMR).
a Bitcoin wallet holding 69,370 BTC, has been the subject of a ongoing effort to crack the password to access the BTC within
Correcting the record about ongoing misconceptions about the traceability of Bitcoin, following media reports about a COVID vaccine scam
The US Department of Justice ('DOJ') says it has dismantled three online fundraising campaigns involving terrorist organizations.
Australian woman Kathryn Nguyen has been sentenced to a maximum of two years and three months in jail for stealing over 100k Ripple in 2018