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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...

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08 May, 2024

Binance founder’s sentencing hearing

Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to money laundering charges. Prosecutors have requested three years of prison time.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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13 May, 2024

7 common banking scams (and how to avoid becoming a victim)

Banking scams are common, and they're becoming more sophisticated. Learn how to avoid the seven most common bank scams.

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06 May, 2024

How Jeff Koons’s Lunar Artwork Could Outlast All of Humanity

How long can humanity’s artifacts endure on the lunar surface? A new installation from artist Jeff Koons is inadvertently putting this question to the test

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17 Apr, 2024

Former Apple researchers launch startup focused on protecting iOS devices

Two former Apple employees who worked for the company as cybersecurity researchers are now launching their own startup. Called DoubleYou, the startup is focused on helping creators of cybersecurity products protect iOS devices and Macs. more…