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Five people from South Korea have been taken into custody following claims that they placed cryptocurrency malware on the computers of thousands of people. The malicious software, which is believed to be related to crypto mining, is said to have ...

A group of men in Bulgaria have been caught selling passports illegitimately – in return for significant amounts of Bitcoin. According to local police, the men – who work in the Bulgarian State Agency – were found to have issued passports in ...

  Warnings have been released this week after a cryptocurrency scam involving the hacking of Twitter accounts was spotted on the social media site. Forex fraudsters hacked the account of Britain-based film company Pathe Films as well as ...

A stock exchange based in New York says it hopes that it can play a role in tackling cryptocurrency fraud using its market surveillance technology. According to a recent paper from Nasdaq, the organisation can transplant the technology it uses to ...

Two high-profile celebrities are believed to have been issued with lawsuits after they used social media to endorse an alleged cryptocurrency scam. Boxing star Floyd Mayweather and rapper DJ Khaled took to websites Twitter and Instagram to promote a ...

A large-scale cryptocurrency scam in France is believed to have affected over 700 people, local media outlets are reporting. Scammers are believed to have approached over 700 victims over the course of 2018. Total losses from all victims are ...

A former federal prosecutor in the US has said attempts by the cryptocurrency world to self-regulate ought to be questioned by those in the industry. Joseph Moreno, who formerly served as a federal prosecutor and now works as a partner in the White ...

Major global search engine Google has announced a relaxation of its rules on cryptocurrency adverts. From next month, adverts which pertain to well-regulated cryptocurrency exchanges in two big economies, Japan and the US, will be allowed. This ...

A prominent Macau businessman has been arrested over suspected cryptocurrency fraud. Frederico dos Santos Rosário, who set up the company Grow uP eSports, was arrested at an unknown point. He was released on bail yesterday for 50,000 MOP (Macanese ...