Not long after the 2024 presidential election, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun bought $75 million in digital coins from World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s crypto start-up. World Liberty said it was “honored” to work with him. Mr. Sun, known for his globe-trotting promotion of the crypto industry, called World Liberty an “excellent project.” Now…
Shorouk Express Throughout 2025, cryptocurrency payments moved firmly into the mainstream as businesses searched for faster, more secure, and globally accessible transaction models. One trend clearly stood out: the accelerating shift toward the self-hosted crypto payment gateway, a model that offers companies full control over their payment infrastructure at a time of heightened regulatory uncertainty…
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Iran’s largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, said Wednesday that it was hacked and funds have been drained from its hot wallet. In a statement on its website translated by TechCrunch, Nobitex said it detected unauthorized access to its infrastructure and hot wallet, in which the company stores a portion of its customers’ cryptocurrency. The company said…
Crypto scammers are leveraging AI-driven social engineering tactics to deceive unsuspecting users and swindle them out of their funds. Crypto exchange Bitget highlighted the rising crypto scams in its 2025 Anti-Scam Research Report, compiled with inputs from blockchain security firms SlowMist and Elliptic. The report claimed that an estimated $4.6 billion (roughly Rs. 39,364 crore)…
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The rise of “pig butchering” scams and the increasing use of generative artificial intelligence likely lifted revenues from crypto scams to a record high in 2024, according to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. Revenue from pig butchering scams, where perpetrators cultivate relationships with individuals and convince them to participate in fraudulent schemes, increased nearly 40 percent…
A hot potato: A widespread scandal involving used Seagate hard drives fraudulently sold as new has continued to escalate, with new evidence suggesting that the drives originated from Chinese cryptocurrency mining farms. The drives, many of which had logged 15,000 to 50,000 hours of prior use, were reportedly altered to appear unused before re-entering the…
She’s awake! Viral web star Haliey Welch has resurfaced for the primary time in weeks, lower than 24 hours after Mashable printed a report on her disappearance following the failure of her “Hawk Tuah” branded memecoin $HAWK. In an announcement supplied to Mashable and posted on her X account on Friday, Welch mentioned she was…
