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The Largest Crypto Scam Machine in History Is Still Running — And It Just Got a $700M Spotlight

77% of nearly 9,000 active pig butchering victims didn't know they were being scammed when the FBI found them. Not suspected. Not halfway out. Mid-funnel, fully committed, still sending money. That's the number that matters from the April 2026 crackdown — not the arrests. On April

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Your Email Passed Every Security Check — And Still Tried to Steal Your Crypto

Robinhood's own servers sent the email. It came from [email protected]. It passed SPF, DKIM, and DMARC authentication. It displayed Robinhood's official logo in Gmail. It landed in the primary inbox. And it was a phishing attack trying to steal your crypto seed phrase. This

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The Month Crypto Got Wrecked: Inside April 2026’s $600M Attack Wave and the AI Tool That Broke KYC

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The RPC Poisoning Attack That Cost $290M — And Why Retail Missed It Coming

On April 18, 2026, a sophisticated state-sponsored attacker poisoned the RPC infrastructure feeding KelpDAO's rsETH bridge, fraudulently approving 116,500 rsETH in transfers. By April 20, that theft had cascaded into $200M in Aave bad debt and triggered a $10B panic withdrawal wave across DeFi. One of the