Japanese Police to Fund Crypto Criminal Tracking Tool Japan’s top police agency is to fund development of new software aimed to help track individuals behind illicit crypto transactions.… Read More
Crypto Mining Firm Receives Bomb Threat Over Noise Level A bomb threat was sent on Saturday to Kryptovault, a Norwegian cryptocurrency mining company, for disturbing the peace.… Read More
Reflections on a Swatting: Inside One Bitcoin Engineer’s Security Battle Bitcoin developer and Casa wallet engineer Jameson Lopp recounts his 2017 swatting, and his fight to find his harasser. … Read More
Police Force Confiscates 295 Bitcoins from Criminal in UK First A British county police force has become the first in the country to have successfully seized and sold bitcoins obtained in a criminal case. … Read More
China’s Police Ministry Touts Blockchain for Secure Evidence Storage China’s Ministry of Public Security has developed a blockchain system aimed to more securely store evidence collected during police investigations. … Read More
Police Mandate Use of Blockchain Hotel Registry in Indian City Police in the Indian city of Vizag have ordered hotels to deploy a new blockchain security solution.… Read More
Bitcoin Pyramid Scheme Allegedly Hoaxed $20 Million In South Korea Two suspects from South Korea have allegedly used a pyramid scheme that involves bitcoin to swindle $20 billion from investors in the country.… Read More
Japanese Crypto Users Lost $6 Million in Hacks Last Year, Say Police Around $6.2 million-worth of cryptocurrency was hacked from exchange accounts and wallet services in 2017, Japan’s National Police Agency says.… Read More
NSFW? Australian Police Probe Government Staffers Over Crypto Mining Misused office equipment gets IT staff in trouble. … Read More