A joint operation between Microsoft, Coinbase, and law enforcement has taken down EvilTokens, an AI-powered phishing-as-a-service platform that compromised over 12,000 email inboxes across more than 10,000 organizations and traced $1.1 million in crypto theft.
Fake YouTube tutorials promising to help users build crypto arbitrage bots with Anthropic's Claude AI drained more than $517,000 in Ethereum from at least 224 victims between February and August, with users unknowingly deploying malicious contracts themselves.
The IRS Criminal Investigation division issued a warning about fraudsters mailing official-looking letters directing crypto holders to a fake 'Digital Asset Compliance Portal' designed to steal digital assets and personal information.
