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Elliptic says about 117,000 NEAR linked to the Binance theft passed through six homemade memecoins, a route intended to disguise the movement of stolen cryptocurrency.
Read developmentOFAC designated eight Canada-based money services businesses on November 6, alleging they facilitated financial transactions on behalf of Iran’s regime.
Read developmentFinCEN issued an order cutting MEXC Global off from the U.S. financial system, barring U.S. financial institutions from processing funds transfers involving the exchange.
Read developmentUkraine’s Cyber Police said an international operation uncovered a network of fraudulent call centers accused of defrauding 135 German citizens of more than €4.3 million.
Read developmentUkrainian law enforcement arrested four suspects in a cryptocurrency investment scam investigation involving reported losses of more than €4.3 million.
Read developmentCrédit Mutuel Arkéa said attackers reached the bank through a service provider’s platform and used the group’s own account to make fraudulent transfers.
Read developmentA Venezuelan national received a 12-year prison sentence for conspiracy to launder money and agreed to a $1 billion money judgment, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Court documents describe a network using cryptocurrency wallets, exchanges, bank accounts, liquidity providers, and shell companies.
Read developmentThe DOJ says six people were charged over an alleged Madagascar-based NFT investment scam that used fake dating profiles to persuade victims to connect crypto wallets. Investigators identified about 74 wallets associated with approximately 800 victims who reported losses.
Read developmentOFAC sanctioned 10 individuals and one entity over North Korean government-run IT worker schemes targeting U.S. businesses. Treasury said six Russia-based workers generated more than $750,000 for a DPRK-controlled entity since 2025, and explained that U.S.-linked property interests of designated persons are blocked, subject to applicable exceptions.
Read developmentESMA says MiCA-authorised crypto-asset service providers should stop services related to non-compliant stablecoins for EU clients. National authorities should require remediation of identified existing exposures within three months of the 8 October opinion, with only limited, supervised services permitted during wind-down.
Read developmentCanada’s proposed stablecoin regulations would require redemption within three business days, cap redemption fees at 1%, and require eligible reserves at least equal to outstanding tokens. The draft maintains a ban on yield for holding stablecoins while allowing transaction-based rewards. Public comments are due by December 23, 2026.
Read developmentThe Justice Department says Zheng Zhao was extradited from the Netherlands and arraigned in California on a money-laundering conspiracy charge. The alleged scheme targeted 174 U.S. victims, with more than $36.9 million passing through a Bahamas bank account before conversion to USDT and transfer to a wallet controlled in Cambodia.
Read developmentNew York’s attorney general says four NovaTech promoters will pay nearly $6 million for victims and face industry bans. Separately, the office is asking a court to order NovaTech founders to pay $1.3 billion, following a 2025 default judgment.
Read developmentThe OCC’s final GENIUS Act rule removes a proposed presumption against certain stablecoin yield arrangements but retains the statutory prohibition. The agency says it will assess arrangements through issuer applications and ongoing supervision, applying the law to each arrangement’s facts and circumstances.
Read developmentINTERPOL says Operation Serengeti III resulted in 1,462 arrests and more than US$105 million recovered across 21 countries. In Angola, authorities dismantled two illegal cryptocurrency mining centres, arrested nine suspects and seized more than 2,000 mining devices and six illegal power transformation stations.
Read developmentThe AIFC Court barred six crypto-platform operators from offering unlicensed digital-asset services in the financial centre. After LBank was removed from the order, the injunctions applied to BingX, Bitcoin.com, Huobi Global (HTX), BitMart, Coinbase and WEEX; the decision also addressed app-store access restrictions.
Read developmentThe U.S. Department of Justice says a joint West Africa operation involving Binance and Coinbase led to 28 arrests. Private-sector partners identified more than $11 million in potentially freezable funds, while officials reported cryptocurrency seizures without disclosing their value.
Read developmentA settlement announced by New York Attorney General Letitia James permanently bars former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky from the securities, commodities and cryptocurrency industries. It provides for up to $35 million in payments to New York, depending on specified forfeiture and prison-sentence conditions.
Read developmentThe U.S. Treasury designated five parties over an alleged Hamas financing network involving purported charities and cryptocurrency. Treasury said the network collected more than $2 million from 2020 to 2026, with hundreds of thousands sent in crypto, and outlined blocking and reporting requirements for covered property.
Read developmentThe CFTC is seeking comment on a potential framework for certain retail commodity transactions involving crypto assets. Its October 5 notice also asks about a possible crypto asset market registration subcategory and says feedback may inform future agency action.
Read developmentOn 9 September 2026 OFAC designated Xinbi Guarantee as a significant transnational criminal organization and sanctioned SafeW Technology and Anwen Technology for materially assisting Xinbi, after U.S. authorities seized infrastructure and restrained wallets tied to a marketplace said to have processed over $24 billion.
Read developmentAdaptHealth told the SEC on July 2 that a social‑engineering compromise of a third‑party session led to exfiltration of PII, PHI and billing password files; a DHHS filing lists 4,115,802 affected individuals.
Read developmentMalone Lam, 22, pleaded guilty on 8 September 2026 to a RICO conspiracy for organising theft and laundering of over $245 million in cryptocurrency; prosecutors say the ring used social engineering and home break‑ins and spent proceeds on luxury goods and services.
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