Crypto crime numbers in the first half of 2025 have already surpassed all of 2024’s stolen funds, and Asia is reportedly at the center of it all. A mid-year report by blockchain analytics firm ...

Blockchain firm Elliptic’s latest State of Cross-Chain Crime report : illicit activities involving cross-chain transactions ...

Assets stolen from crypto services are on pace to reach record levels in 2025. Personal wallets represent a growing target. Chainalysis attributes the rise in crime to greater adoption and price ...

The first half of 2025 has already set a new benchmark in cryptocurrency-related thefts, with criminals stealing $2.17 billion from crypto services, surpassing the $1.87 billion stolen across all of ...

Despite these views, the market has (so far) proven Munger wrong.

While crypto thefts are not new, the use of physical violence is a far more recent trend, said John Griffin, a finance professor at the University of Texas in Austin who tracks financial crimes.

Crypto crime spills over from behind the screen to real-life violence May 28, 2025, 9:06 PM FILE - An advertisement for the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, is displayed on a building in Hong Kong on Nov ...

While crypto thefts are not new, the use of physical violence is a far more recent trend, said John Griffin, a finance professor at the University of Texas in Austin who tracks financial crimes.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A man says he was tortured for weeks in a New York townhouse. Another in Paris was held for ransom and his finger cut off. A couple in Connecticut were carjacked, beaten ...