Business
To make sure grandmas like his don't get conned, he scams the scammers
Livestreamers who bait scammers find creative ways to waste their time. This makes for entertaining viewing. But as scams spike, one streamer, Kitboga, wants to protect as many victims as possible.
- Reporter 21
- 15 Apr, 2024
FTX says it will return money to most of its customers
FTX says that nearly all of its customers will receive the money back that they are owed, two years after the cryptocurrency exchange imploded, and some will get more than that.
- Reporter 21
- 09 May, 2024
Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service
Cross-server tracking suggests a new understanding of "public" chat servers.
- Reporter 21
- 17 Apr, 2024
SEC crypto crackdown continues with Robinhood as lawsuit looms
Robinhood accused SEC of creating a "world of confusion around crypto."
- Reporter 21
- 06 May, 2024
Crypto influencer guilty of $110M scheme that shut down Mango Markets
Fraudster charged with crypto market manipulation defended Mango Markets scheme.
- Reporter 21
- 19 Apr, 2024
FTX Customers Will Get Back All the Money They Lost in the Collapse
Nearly all of FTX’s former customers will get back almost 100% of the money they lost at the time of the cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse — if not more.Read more...
- Reporter 21
- 08 May, 2024
Binance founder’s sentencing hearing
Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to money laundering charges. Prosecutors have requested three years of prison time.
- Reporter 21
- 30 Apr, 2024
Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers—and Still Faces a Patient Data Leak
The company belatedly conceded both that it had paid the cybercriminals extorting it and that patient data nonetheless ended up on the dark web.
- Reporter 21
- 23 Apr, 2024
A Vast New Dataset Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering
Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM, have released a new AI detection model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it's trained on—that aims to spot the “shape” of Bitcoin money laundering.
- Reporter 21
- 01 May, 2024
The $2.3 Billion Tornado Cash Case Is a Pivotal Moment for Crypto Privacy
Tuesday’s verdict in the trial of Alexey Pertsev, a creator of crypto-privacy service Tornado Cash, is the first in a string of cases that could make it much harder to skirt financial surveillance.
- Reporter 21
- 13 May, 2024
