Crime and misconduct

Bribed overseas contractors accessed internal systems, triggering a monthslong breach with costs reaching up to $400 million.

As banks face mounting check fraud, a newly unsealed indictment reveals how one criminal ring exploited weak spots in the system.

Experts warn that stopping modern scams requires more than AI. It takes human oversight, customer engagement and cross-industry collaboration.

John Kothanek, who leads the crypto exchange's global intelligence team, shares some of the ways the company helps investigate on-chain crime.

Edward Arthur Nurse was in charge of the vault at Park Side Credit Union. Then $389,000 went missing, replaced by piles of fake cash.

The alleged ringleader and 23 others face charges in a bank fraud scheme spanning three south-central counties.

Eric Council, Jr. will spend two years in prison for an identity theft scheme that led to a false post by the SEC on X that bitcoin ETFs had been approved.

Robert Thompson was charged with using nonpublic information about New York Community Bank and Capital One to execute stock trades. His guilty plea could come with up to 25 years behind bars.

The supposed glitch was simply check fraud. The bank is suing four people who allegedly took as much as $290,000 from the bank as part of the scheme.

Shutting down Telegram could disrupt fraudsters targeting banks, according to experts. With charges against CEO Pavel Durov, the idea appears more than hypothetical.