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According to Reuters: Hackers linked to Iran claim to have hacked the email of the FBI director.

According to market news, the domain name of the Bitcoin wallet Samourai Wallet, which was once famous for its privacy features, has now been taken over by scammers after being seized by the FBI, and is being used to host phishing sites to steal Bitcoin.Domain records show that the website was registered through a privacy protection service, and the current owner's identity is unknown. Multiple users on the X platform have reported the phishing site to the domain registrar NameCheap, requesting the site be shut down, but have not yet received a response.

According to Solid Intel, the FBI, in conjunction with the Thai police, seized approximately 8,000 mobile phones and froze about $580 million in cryptocurrency assets in an operation targeting scams against Americans.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning that fake tokens impersonating the FBI have appeared on the Tron network, urging users to remain vigilant.The FBI's New York field office stated on social media that users who receive tokens claiming to be from the FBI in their wallets should exercise caution and never provide any personal identification information to related websites. According to disclosed information, these scams typically operate based on the TRC-20 token standard, where attackers send so-called "FBI tokens" to users' wallets and threaten to freeze assets under the pretext of violating anti-money laundering (AML) regulations, thereby inducing users to submit sensitive information and executing phishing attacks. The FBI also recommends that users report any suspicious activities through its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). It is currently unclear how many users have been affected.

According to ABC News, the FBI has warned California police that Iran may launch offensive drone attacks on the West Coast. California Governor Gavin Newsom stated at a press conference that he has been made aware of the potential risk of drone attacks in California.

Suspect John Daghita in the $40 million cryptocurrency theft case involving the U.S. government has been arrested by the FBI.On-chain detective ZachXBT previously revealed that John Daghita is the son of the CEO of CMDSS, a company that had contracts with the U.S. government to handle seized cryptocurrency.According to ZachXBT, he exposed in January 2026 that John used his father's company CMDSS (which holds the USMS contract) to access and transfer relevant assets from wallets managed by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS). Subsequently, John mocked ZachXBT multiple times on a Telegram channel and initiated a "dust attack" by publicly sending part of the involved funds to his wallet address.

According to Cointelegraph, the FBI, Europol, and law enforcement agencies from 14 countries conducted a joint operation on March 3-4, successfully shutting down the cybercrime forum LeakBase. The forum had over 142,000 members and served as a platform for hackers to buy and sell stolen data and cybercrime tools.Law enforcement has seized user accounts, posts, credit details, private information, and IP logs as evidence, and executed search warrants and arrests in multiple countries. Notably, LeakBase's predecessor, Raidforums, was shut down in 2022 and had hosted leaked data containing personal information of approximately 272,000 users of the cryptocurrency wallet company Ledger. In recent years, data breaches in the cryptocurrency industry have continued to rise, including security incidents such as the hacking of Coinbase's internal systems.

According to TMZ, 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped from her home in Tucson, Arizona, on February 1, with blood left at the scene. The kidnappers sent a ransom note to TMZ and two local television stations, demanding a ransom of 6 million dollars in Bitcoin.Law enforcement released images of a suspect on February 10, showing a man wearing a ski mask and carrying a handgun tampering with the doorbell camera. Investigations suggest that the kidnappers may be from the Tucson area, with an activity range within a 700-mile radius of Tucson.The latest breakthrough is the first activity in the Bitcoin account specified in the ransom note. Despite two ransom deadlines having passed, "TODAY" host Savannah Guthrie is still attempting to contact the kidnappers and is willing to pay the ransom. Nancy needs a heart pacemaker and daily medication, and the FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information.

According to Coindesk, former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding has been charged by U.S. authorities with using cryptocurrency for drug trafficking and has been arrested in Mexico and extradited back to the United States.U.S. authorities arrested former Canadian snowboarder Ryan Wedding on Friday and apprehended a drug lord suspected of using cryptocurrency networks to transfer and launder his criminal proceeds. Ryan Wedding was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for alleged cocaine trafficking and murder. According to the FBI, Ryan Wedding is linked to the Sinaloa drug cartel and was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control in November.

The FBI has arrested former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding in Mexico City. The U.S. accuses him of orchestrating a transnational drug trafficking organization and extensively using cryptocurrencies and stablecoins for drug-related transactions and money laundering.FBI Director Kash Patel stated that Wedding will be extradited to the United States, facing multiple charges including cocaine trafficking and murder. Wedding has been on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list since 2025, with a reward of up to $15 million. U.S. prosecutors claim that this criminal network, in collaboration with the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico, transported hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia through Mexico and California to the United States and Canada.The U.S. Treasury previously noted that the organization moved funds through multiple blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, Solana, and BNB Chain, involving stablecoin payments and exhibiting multi-chain money laundering characteristics. In 2024, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on Wedding, his associates, and shell companies, freezing multiple sets of cryptocurrency addresses. Prosecutors also accused him of having directed the murder of informants and orchestrated several violent retaliation actions related to drug trafficking.

According to CNBC, based on data from the FBI, losses from cryptocurrency ATM scams have reached $240 million, nearly double the number of similar scam cases in 2024. Spokane, Washington, has implemented a comprehensive ban on cryptocurrency ATMs, becoming the largest city-level ban in the United States.Several states in the U.S. are tightening regulations or discussing restrictions, including Arizona, Arkansas, and St. Paul, Minnesota, which are also considering following Spokane's comprehensive ban. 80% of the world's cryptocurrency ATMs are located in the United States.

According to market news, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has teamed up with European law enforcement agencies to dismantle a multinational money laundering platform that primarily provided cryptocurrency cash-out services to cybercriminals. The platform, named E-Note, was operated by a Russian citizen and has handled over $70 million in illegal funds since 2017, including assets extorted or stolen from victims in the United States.The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced the indictment of 39-year-old Russian citizen Mykhalio Petrovich Chudnovets, charging him with conspiracy to commit money laundering. It is alleged that since 2010, the suspect has assisted cybercrime groups in transferring criminal proceeds across borders and converting cryptocurrency into cash through the E-Note payment processing service he controlled. Law enforcement agencies have seized his servers, mobile applications, and related domain names. If convicted, he faces a maximum of 20 years in prison.

According to Decrypt, the U.S. Department of Justice has seized the scam website tickmilleas.com, which is operated by Myanmar's "Taichang Scam Park" and is used to disguise a cryptocurrency trading platform to deceive investors.The FBI stated that several victims have recently been scammed. This action is related to the previously sanctioned Cambodian Huione Group, which has closed its Phnom Penh branch and suspended withdrawals this week.

According to Cointelegraph, the Cardano network experienced a temporary chain split due to a "format error" in a delegated transaction. This type of delegated transaction refers to transactions that delegate ADA to a staking pool, which, while valid at the protocol level, can lead to code failures that affect network functionality.According to an incident report released by the Cardano ecosystem organization Intersect, this "format error" transaction exploited an old code vulnerability in the underlying software library of the Cardano blockchain, causing nodes to have discrepancies in how they processed the transaction, ultimately resulting in a network split. The vulnerability was caused by an ADA staking pool operator named Homer J, who used AI-generated code to facilitate the transaction and has admitted responsibility for the network split.Staking pool operators were urged to download the latest version of the node software to fix the issue and to reintegrate the split chains into a single complete blockchain. This temporary split sparked debate within the Cardano community, with some arguing that Homer J's actions helped expose critical vulnerabilities, while others, including Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson, labeled it an attack on the Cardano network, prompting an investigation by the FBI.One user quipped, "No one noticed the network partition of Cardano because no one is using it."

Thai officials announced on Wednesday that they have successfully recovered over $432,000 in stolen digital assets from an Eastern European cybercriminal hiding in Phuket. According to local media, Major General Surapol Premphet, who leads the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) of Thailand, revealed that "Operation 293" successfully seized and returned $320,000 worth of cryptocurrency to Thai victims.The hacker allegedly deployed malware to infiltrate victims' devices to steal authentication keys and mnemonic phrases, which are critical access credentials for cryptocurrency accounts.

Cointelegraph posted on the X platform that a U.S. court ruled that the FBI is not liable for the clearing of a hard drive containing 3,400 BTC, as the owner of the hard drive only later admitted it was theirs.This incident increases the number of cryptocurrencies considered unrecoverable, with an estimated 3.7 million BTC (approximately 18% of the total supply) currently lost.

A recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals determined that the FBI is not responsible for erasing a hard drive that may contain over 3,400 bitcoins, as the convicted owner of the hard drive never informed the government of his possession of the tokens.The case revolves around Plemm, who previously served time for identity theft. After being released from prison in July 2022, he applied to the court for the return of the hard drive containing bitcoins, but the FBI had erased it according to its standard procedures. Plemm claimed this action was illegal and appealed. The judge ultimately stated that Plemm waited too long to file his complaint and that his statements were inconsistent, raising doubts about whether he truly held the bitcoins. Before reaching a plea agreement and serving his sentence in November 2019, Plemm claimed to own "about 3,500 bitcoins." After his incarceration, Plemm changed his story, and in February 2020, his financial disclosure report submitted to the government indicated that he only owned a few thousand dollars' worth of bitcoins. According to Glassnode data, approximately 1.46 million BTC (nearly 7% of the total supply) may have been permanently lost, while Chainalysis reported in 2018 that the number of permanently lost bitcoins could be as high as 3.7 million, exceeding 17.5% of the total supply.

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ChainCatcher news, according to official documents, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio has filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit regarding funds defrauded in a cryptocurrency investment scam. It is reported that an elderly male from Trumbull County and his sister lost over $1.6 million in total. The scam began in November 2024, when the victims received unsolicited text messages and established contact with the scammers on the Telegram platform, where they were subsequently induced to transfer funds to a fraudulent investment platform.Federal investigators tracked approximately $200,000 of the stolen funds through blockchain analysis and have frozen USDT tokens worth $325,060. The FBI's Cleveland division is actively investigating this case and related cryptocurrency fraud cases, and the U.S. government plans to return the recovered funds to the victims.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, the FBI has issued an urgent warning stating that scammers are posing as law firms and government employees to carry out secondary scams against victims of cryptocurrency fraud. Criminals exploit precise details about the victims to gain trust, demanding payment of "service fees" or inducing clicks on phishing links. By 2024, deepfake technology is expected to account for 40% of high-value cryptocurrency fraud cases.