Scammers Are Scamming Other Scammers Out of Millions of Dollars
[ad_1] Nobody is immune to being scammed online—not even the people running the scams. Cybercriminals using hacking forums to buy software exploits and stolen login details keep falling for cons and…
The Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 6: Endgame
[ad_1] The direct ripple effects of that explosion of incriminating data, passed through so many institutions’ records, aren’t easy to track. But over the following years, Grant Rabenn, who served…
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 5: Takedown
[ad_1] Rabenn remembers the atmosphere of that war room as more dead silence and sweaty, anxious tension than eagerness or anticipation. He knew the possibility of achieving a Ross Ulbricht–style…
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 4: Face to Face
[ad_1] The FBI agent, thinking quickly, avoided eye contact with Cazes and walked directly past him to the door. In the seconds it took for Cazes to cross the room,…
The Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 3: Alpha Male
[ad_1] CHAPTER 6 RAWMEO By March 2017, the always aggressive Fresno prosecutor Grant Rabenn was ready to charge Alexandre Cazes with running AlphaBay. But his more cautious colleague Paul Hemesath…
IRS Seizes Another Silk Road Hacker’s $3.36 Billion Bitcoin Stash
[ad_1] According to an IRS-CI affidavit detailing Zhong’s theft of the 50,000-plus bitcoins from the Silk Road, he appears to have found a vulnerability in that dark-web market that in…
The Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 2: Pimp_alex_91
[ad_1] That legal request took weeks to bear fruit. Finally, one evening in the early weeks of January 2017, Ali was in the middle of a law school night class…
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 1: The Shadow
[ad_1] Shortly before AlphaBay took over the dark web’s top spot, Alpha02 had changed his username on the site to merely “admin” and announced that he would no longer accept…
The US Emergency Alert System Has Dangerous Flaws
[ad_1] Cryptocurrency tracing has become a key tool for police investigating everything from fraud and ransomware to child abuse. But its accuracy may soon be put to the test. This…
Bitcoin Fog Case Could Put Cryptocurrency Tracing on Trial
[ad_1] If the prosecution doesn’t produce clear evidence as Sterlingov’s case unfolds, it may have to rely on the more indirect digital connections between Sterlingov and Bitcoin Fog that it…