'Crocodile of Wall Street' and husband are arrested in Bitcoin scheme

A married couple has been arrested and charged with laundering billions in stolen during the 2016 Bitfinex hack, as the Justice Department announced its largest financial seizure ever.  Ilya ‘Dutch’ Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, who raps under the name Razzlekhan, were arrested on Tuesday in Manhattan on federal charges of […]

Chinese crypto addresses sent $2.2 bln to scams, darknets in…

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Chinese cryptocurrency addresses sent more than $2.2 billion worth of digital tokens to addresses tied to illegal activity such as scams and darknet market operations between April 2019 and June 2021, according to a report from blockchain data platform Chainalysis released on Tuesday. These addresses received […]

MDMA use drops due to COVID lockdowns, other drugs rise -EU report

LISBON, dark websites March 17 (Reuters) – The closure of nightclubs and bars during COVID-19 lockdowns in Europe is likely behind a significant drop in the use of party drug MDMA last year but consumption of other substances such as cocaine and cannabis kept rising, an EU study said on Thursday. Conducted by the Lisbon-based […]

Crocodile of Wall Street hilariously bad raps granted bail at $3m

It appears the self-proclaimed ‘Crocodile of Wall Street’, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, who was granted $3million bail on Wednesday, led a second life a hipster New York rapper who performs under the street name Razzlekhan. In a series of cringey videos posted to YouTube, the wannabe performer can be seen walking around Wall Street while […]

Stopping cyberattacks. No human necessary

id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> This is part of our  about how innovators are thinking up new ways to make you — and the world around you — smarter.  “Are you a hacker?” A Las Vegas driver asks me this after I tell him I’m headed to Defcon at Caesars Palace. I wonder if his sweat isn’t […]

Crocodile of Wall Street hilariously bad raps granted bail at $3m

It appears the self-proclaimed ‘Crocodile of Wall Street’, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, who was granted $3million bail on Wednesday, led a second life a hipster New York rapper who performs under the street name Razzlekhan. In a series of cringey videos posted to YouTube, the wannabe performer can be seen walking around Wall Street while […]

Just 270 crypto addresses laundered $1.3 bln in dirty funds last…

By Tom Wilson LONDON, tor drug darknet market Feb 11 (Reuters) – Criminals are using a small group of cryptocurrency brokers and services to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty virtual money, research shared with Reuters showed on Thursday. Just 270 cryptocurrency addresses, many connected to over-the-counter brokers, received $1.3 billion in illicit […]

NY bitcoin money laundering couple 'from the pages of a spy novel'

A New York couple dubbed ‘ Bonnie and Crypto Clyde’ arrested on charges of laundering $4.5 billion in stolen Bitcoin led an existence ‘pulled from the pages of a spy novel,’ prosecutors have said. Ilya ” Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife Heather Morgan, darknet sites 31, are being held in custody following their Tuesday arrest, […]

More than 150 arrested in global crackdown on Darknet traders:…

THE HAGUE, darknet market markets onion address Oct 26 (Reuters) – At least 150 people have been arrested by European and U.S.authorities after a joint crackdown on traders of drugs, weapons and other illicit goods on darknet market e-commerce sites, dark web marketplaces Dutch media reported Tuesday citing police agency Europol. Cash and cryptocurrency worth […]

Most weapons on the dark web come from US, study finds

id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> US guns make up as much as 60 percent of the weapons on sale on the dark web marketplaces web, new research has found. Related links Weapons, drugs and stolen identities are readily available on the dark web, a . To investigate where guns, ammunition and guides to their use come from, […]