What to do after a crypto theft or fraud incident

The stages an investigation might take varies considerably from one case to another, but below is an overview of the stages of a semi-typical investigation. 1. User submits incident report to Cryptoforensic Investigators. This includes background...

For any type of cryptocurrency theft, fraud, scam, or exploit, it is essential to gather and provide the relevant blockchain transaction data associated with the incident if you're hoping to pursue it or have the matter investigated. It's the firs...

Users that want to report cryptocurrency fraud or want to report stolen cryptocurrency  sometimes want to report the addresses associated with the fraud. Reporting the addresses can be helpful to notify exchanges about questionable or illicit sour...

When users realize they've been a victim of a cryptocurrency scam, it is common for them to try and determine if any funds can be recovered. Cryptocurrency transactions can't be reversed once they have been sent and confirmed on the blockchain, ho...

In order to communicate on-chain with an attacker, you will need a non-compromised cryptocurrency wallet and will need to use a wallet application that supports adding a data string to a transaction; not all wallet applications support this. Wall...

If you are seeking assistance from a private cryptocurrency forensics firm, there are certain pieces of information that will be essential to gather and provide, the most important which are: 1. The blockchain transaction data associated with the...

Cryptocurrency fraud victims that have sent money to fraudulent investment platforms are sometimes able to recover a small portion of their losses own their own -- without our help, without the help of any other professional firm,  without the h...