Yet another white-collar crypto investor has been arrested in connection to a bizarre and violent criminal case involving an Italian crypto millionaire. Last week, Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan, 28, reportedly broke loose from a ritzy apartment in Manhattan’s Nolita neighborhood and alerted a traffic agent to his imprisonment and torture at the home over a
Vietnamese officials have identified Theu as a key figure in a network that lured people into investing in bogus cryptocurrency and foreign exchange trading platforms. PHOTO: BANGKOK POST/VIET NAM NEWS HO CHI MINH – A 30-year-old Vietnamese woman wanted by Interpol for her involvement in a massive cryptocurrency scam has been arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
Trump Media & Technology Group, the company that owns President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform, announced plans Tuesday to buy about $2.5 billion in cryptocurrencies to create what it calls a “bitcoin treasury.” The company plans to raise the money by selling $1.5 billion in common stock and $1 billion in convertible debt to 50
The arrests came after the victim managed to escape a home in SoHo, one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in New York, where he was allegedly tortured and bound for nearly three weeks. According to police, Mr Duplessie is the business partner of John Woeltz, 37, who was arrested on Friday. Mr Woeltz is a crypto
William Jones | Contributor Even in 2025, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) receives more than 6,000 reports of crypto scams daily. If you’re reading this, it’s likely that you or someone close to you has fallen victim. With losses totaling tens of billions each year due to digital fraud, the prospect of recovering stolen
A second suspect in the kidnapping and torture of an Italian man inside a luxurious SoHo apartment in a failed bid to get him to give up his cryptocurrency password was criminally charged Tuesday after turning himself in to authorities, police said. William Duplessie, 33, surrendered at 7:45 a.m. to cops at the 13th Precinct
A second suspect in the alleged kidnapping and torture of an Italian man in a luxury New York City apartment surrendered on Tuesday, police sources told ABC News. Like co-defendant John Woeltz, the second suspect is expected to face charges of kidnapping, assault and unlawful imprisonment, the sources said. The man turned himself in at
May 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Threat Intelligence Misconfigured Docker API instances have become the target of a new malware campaign that transforms them into a cryptocurrency mining botnet. The attacks, designed to mine for Dero currency, is notable for its worm-like capabilities to propagate the malware to other exposed Docker instances and rope them
In brief Police in France have arrested at least 12 suspects linked to kidnappings targeting crypto investors. France has seen a spate of crypto kidnapping attempts in recent months, prompting the Interior Minister to commit to boosting security for cryptocurrency execs. Experts advise that crypto investors avoid publicizing their holdings to mitigate against kidnapping attempts.
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