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Aussie banks say crypto restrictions ‘largest lever’ in scam prevention

Banks in Australia claim that crypto restrictions are in place as 40% of scams in Australia “touch” crypto.

Police bust Aussie crypto scam, seize Ferrari, watches, weapons

Australian police arrested two men in connection with a $5.5M crypto scam, seizing a Ferrari 458 and a pair of Japanese nunchucks.

Hacker collective APLHV said in April that it had stolen 3.6TB of data from law firm HWL Ebsworth. So far, 1.1TB has been posted online.

Mark Chikarovski, who allegedly ran a dark web marketplace trading drugs for crypto, is former Australian politician Kerry Chikarovski’s son.

Binance Australia is being probed by the country’s financial regulators, resulting in its derivatives license getting revoked.