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Arkham Intelligence flagged another 500 BTC transfer from Clifton Collins-linked wallets, extending a series of mysterious movements involving $208 million.
The address Etherscan labels “Drift Exploiter 5” made 258 deposits on Oct. 20, nearly emptying this wallet.
The hackers didn't need to break Ledger's security when they could just get to the wallets before their owners.
Criminal suppliers accepted stablecoin payments for compromised cloud accounts and phishing tools, prompting a coordinated infrastructure and financial crackdown.
Toronto police allege attackers sought cryptocurrency and business security access; searches uncovered ammunition stolen from the military.
Brooklyn prosecutors uncovered a second fraud targeting the same investors after dismantling infrastructure behind a multinational crypto scam.
The rival wallet maker is ending selected retail partnerships despite no confirmed compromise of its devices, while Germany's MediaMarktSaturn suspends Ledger sales.
Chinese investors face a new legal hurdle after London's High Court ruled that Chinese law must determine ownership claims over more than 61,000 seized BTC.
Ledger confirmed one implanted device; its Genuine Check verifies the secure element, while separate research and tracing explain different parts of the investigation.
