☠️ Hackers launched a new Trapdoor attack against crypto developers — through infected npm, PyPI, and Crates packages, they steal seed phrases, wallet keys, GitHub, and SSH access.

The danger is that a developer might accidentally install a malicious package as a regular library — and lose access to their crypto assets and projects.

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🇷🇺 Last year, scammers withdrew about 295 billion rubles of stolen money through cryptocurrency and crypto exchanges, — stated Sber analysts.

The bank says that about 900 such offline and online exchangers operate in Russia, through which stolen funds are quickly converted into "digital" and moved further.

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🚓 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation wants to introduce a separate criminal article for illegal mining — this is not about a complete ban, but about schemes involving large-scale damage, electricity theft, and illegal income.

The IC claims that there may be around 190,000 illegal miners in the country, and the damage to the economy last year is estimated at up to $280 million.

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🧯 Someone sent 5 transactions totaling 107 BTC ($8.2M) to the burn address 1111111111111111111114oLvT2.

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🇬🇧 The UK introduced new sanctions against crypto exchanges and payment networks, which, according to London, helped Russia circumvent Western restrictions, among them are Huobi (HTX), banks and companies from Georgia and the UAE.

The targets are not just individual services, but the infrastructure around A7/Garantex — assets are frozen, and British companies are prohibited from conducting payments and banking operations with them.

The main difference from old sanctions is that Britain is now trying to cut off not the storefront, but the "pipes" themselves through which money moved via crypto, OTC, and foreign intermediaries.

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⛔️ Up to $16,000,000 worth of Russians' funds could be stuck on international crypto exchanges after new sanctions by Great Britain against Russian exchangers and payment services.

Transfers related to Rapira, Aifory, and other platforms were hit — such transactions began to be marked as high-risk, and accounts on Bybit, Binance, Bitget, and other exchanges — sent for verification or blocking.

A separate risk is ABCEX (76 offices in the Russian Federation). According to data from sanction documents, the platform might appear there under a different name, so some users might not have understood that their transfers were connected to a sanctioned service. Now, such transactions might look like "dirty" funds to international exchanges, even if a person simply used a regular exchanger before.

It is worth noting that restrictions can be imposed even for transactions that went through these services several years ago.

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⚖️ The State Duma of the Russian Federation **adopted** in the first reading a draft law on punishment for illegal mining — this refers to cases where, as a result of such activity, large-scale income (over 3.5 million rubles) has been obtained, or damage of a similar amount has been caused to citizens, organizations, or the state.

Such crimes will be punishable by a fine of up to 1.5 million rubles, mandatory work for 480 hours, or forced labor for up to 2 years.

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🇮🇹 Banca Sella, one of Italy's largest banks with assets of €34 billion, became the first bank in the country with a license for storing and transferring crypto assets.

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⚡️ Polymarket wants to introduce mandatory identity verification (KYC) for traders amid regulatory pressure and sanctions risks.

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🇮🇷 The US carried out a new strike on Iran and imposed sanctions on the agency controlling the Strait of Hormuz, while Israel conducted one of its most powerful attacks on Lebanon recently.

Against the backdrop of escalation, the crypto market sharply declined — almost $500 million in long positions were liquidated in an hour, and Bitcoin fell below $72,900.

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🏦 Bank for International Settlements (BIS) together with the NY Fed, ECB, Bank of Japan, JPMorgan, Visa, and Mastercard is launching tests of real cross-border blockchain payments.

Essentially, the largest banks and payment giants are starting to test how blockchain can work for international transfers with real money.

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