Crypto Scams Cost Investors $4.6 Billion in 2024, Social Engineering Attacks Surge: Bitget

Crypto Scams Cost Investors $4.6 Billion in 2024, Social Engineering Attacks Surge: Bitget

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) … Read more

Tether to Equip Hadron Platform With Chainalysis Compliance, Monitoring Tools

Tether to Equip Hadron Platform With Chainalysis Compliance, Monitoring Tools

Tether has announced that it recently upgraded its on-chain threat detection capabilities. The issuer of the USDT stablecoin said that Hadron, its real world assets (RWAs) tokenisation platform, has been equipped with on-chain intelligence tools from Chainalysis. With the new partnership, Hadron will have access to compliance tools created by Chainalysis, as part of Tether’s … Read more

Crypto Scams Likely Set New Record in 2024, Helped by AI: Chainalysis

Crypto Scams Likely Set New Record in 2024, Helped by AI: Chainalysis

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 … Read more

Intelligence Analysis Firm i2 Group Partners Chainalysis to Upgrade Software With Blockchain Technology

Intelligence Analysis Firm i2 Group Partners Chainalysis to Upgrade Software With Blockchain Technology

Intelligence analysis firm i2 Group is upgrading its internal software with blockchain technology to be better equipped to identify illicit uses of cryptocurrency. The company plans to integrate blockchain-based features to its link analysis platform, named Analyst’s Notebook. i2 Group has partnered with blockchain data firm Chainalysis. With this step, the firm is looking to … Read more