😂 FUN FACT: Durov bought himself a "Wanted" gift - thats how he decided to celebrate a CRIMINAL CASE

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⚠️ JUST IN: U.S. contractor employee jailed after selling critical military zero-day exploits

A former L3Harris employee has been sentenced to over 7 years in prison for selling eight zero-day exploits to Russian broker Operation Zero.

Prosecutors say he received up to $4M in crypto, while the breach reportedly caused around $35M in losses to the defense contractor. U.S. authorities have since sanctioned the broker and related entities.

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⚠ JUST IN: U.S. authorities have seized approximately $61M in USDT

U.S. authorities have seized approximately $61M in USDT linked to a large-scale pig butchering crypto scam.

The scheme typically involves scammers building online relationships before directing victims to fake trading platforms showing fabricated profits, encouraging larger deposits.

Victims often discover the fraud only after withdrawals are blocked and additional “fees” are demanded.

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⚠ JUST IN: Cyber police shut down gang behind massive Facebook credential theft

5 days ago, Polish cyber police dismantled a phishing gang that stole over 100,000 Facebook login credentials and used hijacked accounts for BLIK payment scams.

The group operated across Poland and Germany between 2022 and 2024, using fake news sites that redirected victims to spoofed Facebook login pages.

Authorities identified 11 suspects, filed over 400 charges, and seized about $250,000 in assets.

A shotout to my friend @capturable :(

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⚠ JUST IN: Ethereum creator continues large ETH sales

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has been steadily selling significant amounts of ETH, with tens of millions of dollars moved over recent weeks as part of a planned distribution.

Why do you think he's selling his own coin?

(https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/entity/vitalik-buterin)

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🎰 FUN FACT: Polymarket trader SCssss returned after a year of silence, placing a $150K bet that the U.S. will confirm aliens before 2027(at just 16.8% odds).

Does he know something?

Notably, he previously lost $50K on a failed political bet last year.

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😂 Fun Fact: Korean government seized a ledger, and uploaded the seed phrase to the photo (Out of 2,333 bitcoin seized they have lost 1,742 of it)

☕️ Update: wallet is empty now

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⚠️ JUST IN: D.C. task force freezes $580M linked to scam call centers

Washington D.C.’s Scam Center Strike Force has seized and frozen $580M in crypto tied to transnational fraud networks, including organized scam call centers and pig-butchering syndicates.

They targets laundering infrastructure behind large-scale social engineering campaigns.

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⚠️ JUST IN: On Dec 10, 2025, someone created a new wallet and bet that OpenAI would launch a new frontier model "on Dec 11" and "before Dec 13", making $16,872 in profit.

Today, it was reported that OpenAI fired an employee for prediction market insider trading.

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⚠️ JUST IN: A newly created wallet, “Roeyha2026,” was funded 11 hours ago and placed a $50K bet that the U.S. would strike Iran before March 1, 2026.

The position is now showing an unrealized profit of ~$96.8K, raising speculation across prediction markets.

https://polymarket.com/0xf5be02858d86213b0ac7fc7afbaf12fd5f26195a

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⚠️ JUST IN: $500,000,000 liquidated from the cryptocurrency market in the past 24 hours.

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⚠ JUST IN: 2.3M - 3.7M Bitcoin is permanently lost, according to Ledger. This means at least 11% of the total supply is gone forever

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😂 Fun Fact: The Korean government has apologized for exposing the seed phrase of a confiscated crypto asset in an official report, which subsequently led to the wallet being hacked twice in succession.

☕️ Thats not how crypto works

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⚠️ JUST IN: Telegram has restricted another NFT username from being used on platform, no reason has been stated yet.

☕️ Fun Fact: This sums up to total of 1511 NFT usernames being restricted from being used on platform. (including lots of OGs & 4Ls like @shit @llll @wwww)

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⚠️ JUST IN: New record for Telegram anonymous numbers

Telegram investor @Fuhao has spent 325,000 TON (~$422K) to purchase the anonymous phone number +888 8 787 on Fragment.

The purchase sets a new record price for phone numbers sold on fragment.com.

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⚠️ JUST IN: Kraken becomes first crypto bank with Fed master account

Crypto exchange Kraken has reportedly secured a Federal Reserve master account, becoming the first digital asset bank to gain direct access to the U.S. central bank’s payment infrastructure.

This gives Kraken direct access to U.S. payment rails.

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⚠️ JUST IN: Notorious fraudster John Lick arrested

Yesterday, alleged fraudster John Lick has been arrested in Saint Martin by French authorities, with the FBI confirming the operation. Agents reportedly seized multiple crypto-related hard drives and three Trezor hardware wallets.

Lick controlled a large portfolio of Telegram collectibles, including usernames, NFTs, and numbers, reportedly worth $10M+. One week before his arrest, he moved many usernames across wallets, possibly attempting to avoid seizure.

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⚠️ JUST IN: Moongate integrates TON for Web3 ticketing

Moongate has integrated TON (The Open Network) to support decentralized event ticketing with both crypto and fiat payments.

The move aims to bring blockchain-based tickets on-chain, improving transparency and reducing fraud in the ticketing ecosystem.

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☕️ Fun Fact: There is now only 1,000,884 BTC left of Bitcoin's 21 million supply to be mined

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⚠️ JUST IN: A vulnerability in the MoltEVM token contract allowed an attacker to mint 100M mEVM tokens due to a weak access control check.

The attacker then dumped 99M mEVM through the liquidity pool, causing losses of about $127K. Around $2K was reportedly recovered and returned to the deployer.

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⚠️ JUST IN: U.S. judge freezes 71 BTC in BlockFills fraud dispute

A U.S. judge has ordered the freeze of ~71 BTC (~$5M) tied to crypto trading platform BlockFills following allegations of misused investor funds.

The court issued a temporary restraining order, preventing the Bitcoin from being moved while the case continues.

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