Track crypto crime news, investigations, arrests, laundering cases, sanctions breaches, and law enforcement activity across digital assets.
A $50M exchange heist, a secret founder bailout, and a 5-month cover-up to prevent a bank run have finally caught up with Bitkub.
Liam 'Akiba' Wright 3 min read 
About $31.69M in combined bridge losses and B²'s July 22 staking suspension reveal three distinct control failures.
Investigators linked a campaign wallet to Bitrefill, Google, Uber and telecom records before a search uncovered separate Monero activity.
The network has suspended native transactions while it develops a migration process designed to stop attackers with reconstructed private keys from front-running affected users.
CertiK recorded roughly $124.1 million in losses and ransom demands in H1 2026, a measure of exposure rather than criminal profit.
Five civil-forfeiture filings show how authorities can restrain crypto before suspects are identified, while victim repayment remains a separate and unresolved process.
More than 380 investors supplied the funds, while court approval, penalties and any recovery remain unresolved.
Prosecutors say eight entities were used as investor funds moved through financial institutions and crypto exchanges, with new money repaying earlier investors.
A crypto payment can clear in seconds then become a 14-year UK criminal risk when the wallet is tied to Iran’s IRGC.
