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Inside the Prince Group case: forced labor, pig butchering, and a record $15 billion bitcoin seizure

US prosecutors say Chen Zhi ran Cambodian forced-labor compounds where trafficked workers were made to run romance-investment cons. Here is how the scheme works — and how to spot it.

By Mara Okafor · 4 min read · Painting: Renaissance archive
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No. 1207Threat Intelcritical
How a 2021 Coldcard firmware change made Bitcoin seeds guessable

A software random-number bug weakened Coldcard seed generation for years. On July 30, 2026, attackers drained hundreds of single-sig wallets in under an hour — a firmware update alone won't fix it.

By Lena Vogt · JUL 31, 2026 · 4 min read
No. 1206Newshigh
Why the Bitcoin ATM became a scammer's favorite cash register

The FBI says Americans lost more than $388 million at crypto kiosks in 2025 — most of it drained from older adults following a stranger's urgent phone script. Three states have now pulled the machines.

By Dev Patel · JUL 18, 2026 · 4 min read
No. 1205Enforcement
Interpol's First Light 2026 nets 5,811 arrests as enforcement scales to the compound economy

A four-month sweep across 97 countries intercepted USD 293 million and flagged more than 142,000 victims — while US prosecutors charged the managers of three named scam companies.

By Mara Okafor · MAY 15, 2026 · 3 min read
No. 1204Exchange Watchhigh
FTX, nearly four years on: the ten-day collapse and the freeze that every failure repeats
By Lena Vogt · MAY 10, 2026 · 4 min read
No. 1203Data
The crypto-fraud numbers keep climbing, and every total is a floor
By Lena Vogt · APR 20, 2026 · 4 min read
No. 1202Security Dispatch
How GitCafe closed a repository-hijack exploit with GitVault end-to-end encryption
By Lena Vogt · NOV 12, 2025 · 6 min read
No. 1201Enforcement · Crypto mixershigh
Samourai Wallet's founders moved $2 billion in bitcoin. They're going to prison
By Jules Renner · NOV 6, 2025 · 4 min read
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1Phemex loses $69 million in the year's first big exchange breach2A former developer's leftover keys drained $49.5 million from Infini3A rounding error cost zkLend $9.5 million — and eventually the whole protocol4Cetus loses $223 million on Sui, and validators freeze most of it
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