Nearly 2.7 trillion won (US$2.3 billion) have been lost to cryptocurrency crimes in the last two years, not including exchange hacks.
The U.K. government has drawn up an action plan aimed to combat financial crimes that it says will include a new regime for crypto assets.
After a $30-million hack last week, Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint says it's discovered that another $2.3 million is missing.
Spanish police authorities are raising the alarm because a recent criminal case involved the use of bitcoin ATMs, making their jobs more difficult.
A new training session seeks to create "domain expertise" for cryptocurrency related crimes.
An Australian couple lost over AU$20,000 in a bitcoin scam, and were even taunted by the perpetrator over their losses.
A fake ID ring operated between June 2013 and February 2018 and may have netted over $4.7 million in bitcoin.
Irish cryptocurrency exchange Bitsane may have done a runner with users' funds, according to a report.
Bitrue was hacked early Thursday morning for over $4 million in XRP and cardano. Users who experienced losses will be refunded, it says.
Europol and police agencies have busted a cloned exchange operation that stole over $27 million in bitcoin from thousands of victims.
In total, authorities seized 20 kilograms of MDMA, over seven kilograms of Ketamine, over 10,000 Xanax pills, and more than $100,000 in cash.
In addition to the Libra coin, Facebook's newly unveiled crypto project also involves a "Libra investment token."
Russian hackers, not North Korean, may be the bad actors behind probably the biggest ever theft from a cryptocurrency exchange.
The crypto industry can fight money launderers effectively, but not the way FATF wants it to, a CEX.IO compliance officer writes.
The European crime fighting agency is developing a game to teach law enforcement officers how to trace cryptocurrencies in criminal investigations.