Bitquery estimates $102 million was drained from 324 Ledger-linked wallets on six chains, up from about $86 million earlier. Ledger says its chips, software and servers were not breached and calls it a distribution-channel attack.
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Toronto police laid 82 charges across seven people, three of them Canadian Armed Forces members, over a July abduction to reach a man's crypto. Police say it shows crime involving digital assets turning more targeted, though the record covers one victim.
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Ledger plans to release its Android-based Atom wallet in mid-2027, after a breach that onchain researchers put at up to $93.2 million. It plans no trade-ins for customers hit by the tampering, so victims who want the new hardware will pay for it.
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Chainalysis says the US became a net bitcoin importer in the year to June 2026, the first time since 2022. Transfers above $10 million brought in 53,200 coins, about $4.3 billion, but the firm did not publish a net total.
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Chainalysis counted more than 138 million agent payments through x402 on Base, over 87% of them worth 10 cents or less. CoinDesk noted that transaction counts alone do not establish how much is genuine commercial demand.
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Chainalysis says remittance-sized crypto transfers from Canada to India, China and the Philippines rose 141% to $2.36 billion in the year to June 2026. The data measure that growth but not what it took from banks and wire services.
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Chainalysis tracing testimony survives the D.C. Circuit without a source-code disclosure
The D.C. Circuit on September 25 upheld Reactor-based tracing testimony and affirmed Roman Sterlingov's 150-month Bitcoin Fog sentence. Vendors with closed code now have a ruling to cite, though the review was deferential and the case had other evidence.
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UK sanctions Cryptomus, VexPay, TokenSpot and Tsunami Payments over Russia-linked payment flows
Britain sanctioned Cryptomus, also operating as Heleket, on October 8, freezing its assets at UK banks and barring British firms from dealing with it. Canada's CAD $176 million fine did not stop the platform; analyst Richard Sanders says sanctions do.
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France's National Assembly Finance Committee adopted amendment I-CF1826 on Oct. 7, making Bitcoin or Ether swaps into USDC taxable from Jan. 1, 2027. Gains would be taxed with no cash-out, CryptoSlate reported, and the basis route moves one example's Bitcoin gain from €40,000 to €24,000.
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Tether joined the seed round of EFY Finance, which says it settles to local accounts in 17 countries. Tether did not disclose what it paid, how big the round was or at what valuation, so the price of that reach cannot be worked out.
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Three knife-wielding intruders took about $800,000 from a UK trader, he says, including $720,000 from a Ledger hardware wallet. Police have not confirmed it; Chainalysis counts over $30 million in confirmed losses from such attacks in the first half of 2026.
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Argentina's central bank will keep its 2022 ban on banks offering crypto this year, Juan Curutchet said, naming a second Milei term as a possible opening. That keeps the country's banks out of a market that took in $88.5 billion of crypto in a year, by Chainalysis's count.
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On-chain analyst Specter traced more than $86 million drained from hundreds of Ledger hardware-wallet users across Ethereum, TRON and Bitcoin. With the cause unconfirmed, holders cannot yet tell whether moving coins to a new device would help at all.
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Santa Catarina's civil police moved $1.7 million in crypto out of a phishing ring's self-custody wallets, the largest such recovery by Brazilian police. Self-custody left no company to serve with a freeze order. That protection ended once a search found the keys.
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Based alerts Singapore's regulator after card dashboard exposes passport data tied to wallets
Based says an October 5 breach of its Visa card dashboard may have exposed passport numbers and home addresses tied to wallets. The company says funds are untouched and has not said how many of its 100,000 registered users are affected.
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A brand swap from Cryptomus to Heleket leaves merchants facing the same UK-sanctioned company
Britain's Oct. 8 notice lists Cryptomus, Heleket and Certa Payments as variations of one sanctions target, Xeltox Enterprises Ltd., ID RUS3755. A merchant that changes brands keeps the same counterparty, and a customer's withdrawal still needs a legal basis.
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France's parliamentary Finance Committee approved a tax on crypto-to-stablecoin conversions for the 2027 budget, though the measure is not yet law. A companion 10-year loss carry-forward, reported by crypto.news, makes the cost-basis choice on pre-2027 coins the decision to get right.
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Leaked chats reviewed by Recorded Future News show the Silent Ransom Group directing US-based recruits it calls 'agents' into law firm offices. For firms holding client data, an intrusion can start at reception with someone posing as a courier or an IT worker.
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Hacktron AI chained a Discourse image-library flaw to a weakness in OpenAI's single sign-on and into the Codex environment in under 72 hours, after swapping Claude Opus 4.8 for Opus 5 to get a working exploit.
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Britain sanctioned three crypto exchanges and two payment platforms on Oct. 8, two of them suspected of handling transactions for Russia's A7 network. Washington blocked A7 a week earlier and Brussels barred dealings with 14 crypto platforms in July, so firms near these rails now answer to three overlapping regimes.
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Earlier coverage
- France's official tally of crypto kidnapping and extortion runs three times Chainalysis's count
Invest · October 9, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Armed robbers force an $820,000 crypto transfer from a Pattaya expat at gunpoint
Invest · October 8, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- ZachXBT staked $349.7K of his own money to pose as a client of North Korea's launderers
Invest · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed8 publishers
- OKX pays up to 10% to pull emerging-market savings into dollar stablecoins
Invest · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed7 publishers
- China's self-custodied stablecoins turn over 33.2 times a year, Chainalysis finds
Invest · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- Compound's Proposal 612 would hand COMP voters a ten-day veto over treasury moves
Invest · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Deblock, Lyzi and Waltio chiefs ask France to tax swaps from crypto into stablecoins
Invest · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Brazil's central bank makes Binance collect a purpose for cross-border crypto transfers
Invest · October 4, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Drift's capped pledges would lift its DFX recovery rate to about 50 cents at most
Invest · October 2, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers
- Issuers and protocols have frozen about 0.2% of the $387 million taken from Bitget
Invest · October 3, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Bitcoin dominates Absa's custody book as Africa's first bank crypto custodian
Invest · October 4, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Korea drafts tokenized-securities rules for 2027 as bills seek a fourth crypto-tax delay
Invest · October 1, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Treasury sanctions 10 over Ploutus ATM jackpotting it ties to Tren de Aragua
Security · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers
- Korea's crypto exchange market cap falls 33% as Bitcoin drops, amid continuing offshore exodus
Invest · October 2, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Fundsz victims hold a $15.7 million claim inside the CFTC's $31 million default judgment
Invest · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Former NCA officer's £1.81m order prices each recovered bitcoin at what all 50 were worth in 2017
Invest · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Citi will settle stablecoin checkout payments that Coinbase converts to fiat
Invest · September 28, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- A tax breach just handed French crypto holders' addresses and incomes to whoever pays
Invest · August 15, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- SafePal's breach came through an order-tracking plug-in, and that is the point
Product · August 16, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Chainalysis sues DHS and ICE, and the real target is sole-source procurement
Invest · August 16, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- A hardware wallet's real attack surface is its order database, not its air gap
Invest · August 16, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- SafePal's leaked order book is a target list: 39,798 wallet buyers, with addresses
Security · August 16, 2026 · Confirmed8 publishers
- LayerZero's ATLAS asks venues for 1% of ZRO supply, then burns less the more they stake
Invest · August 25, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Storm's Tornado Cash retrial slips to April 2027, and the developer question slips with it
Invest · August 26, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- A fake Google and Gemini call delivered 94% of the thefts named in Malone Lam's plea
Invest · September 8, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers
- Hackers priced 680 Revolut customer files at roughly $4,300 each
Invest · September 17, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Four men bound a French family for three hours to extract a 40,000-euro crypto transfer
Invest · September 21, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Iran-linked malware takes its orders from a Bitcoin address once tied to Satoshi
Invest · September 17, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers