CrediX, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, recently recovered $4.5 million in stolen cryptocurrency after reaching a private settlement with the hacker responsible for the exploit. The breach occurred when attackers gained unauthorized access to CrediX’s multisig admin and bridge wallets, allowing them to mint collateral tokens, borrow against the protocol, and drain its liquidity.

Solana Labs and Jito Labs have been named as co-defendants in an amended federal lawsuit alleging their involvement in a $1.5 billion fraud connected to the Solana-based memecoin launchpad, Pump.Fun. The lawsuit, filed by Burwick Law in the Southern District of New York, claims that these firms were not just infrastructure providers but active participants in a scheme that included illegal gambling, wire fraud, and unlicensed money transmission.

Greek authorities have successfully executed the country’s first-ever cryptocurrency seizure, targeting funds linked to the massive $1.5 billion Bybit exchange hack that occurred in February 2025. The hack, widely attributed to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, involved the theft and laundering of a significant amount of ether.

WazirX, a major cryptocurrency exchange, is currently facing a legal battle in Singapore’s High Court after users accused its local entity, Zettai, of freezing both crypto and fiat balances without clear justification. The dispute centers on claims that even assets unaffected by previous hacks—such as Bitcoin, XRP, Tron, Binance Coin, Tether, and fiat currency—were wrongly withheld from users.

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global financial watchdog, has issued a stark warning about the increasing misuse of stablecoins for illicit activities as international efforts to regulate cryptocurrencies continue to lag behind. In its latest report, the FATF highlighted that stablecoins have become the dominant vehicle for illegal on-chain activity, driven by their low costs, fast settlement times, and broad liquidity.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has seized over $225 million in cryptocurrency, marking the largest crypto seizure in U.S. Secret Service history. This action is part of a crackdown on a global fraud network that targeted more than 400 victims through so-called “pig butchering” scams.

Taiwan-based cryptocurrency exchange BitoPro recently experienced a significant security breach, resulting in the theft of approximately $11.5 million worth of digital assets.

Russian investigators have reportedly seized approximately $8.2 million worth of cryptocurrency from a suspect accused of maintaining servers for Hydra, a notorious darknet marketplace.