The button exists, it's written into the USDT contract, and only Tether can press it. As a rule, the request comes from law enforcement, not the victim. Freezing stops the money, but it doesn't send it back on its own. And everything depends on the funds still being there.
Investment fraud doesn't pick victims by social class — it picks them by database. And what the database defines isn't how much to extract; it's when to stop paying.
Cronos, the chain maintained by Crypto.com, halted for nine hours and restored the state prior to the Tectonic attack. $68.7 million came back. The roughly $6 million already bridged to Ethereum did not.
A healthcare organization reported a data breach to the ANPD and posted a notice on its own website. The Authority opened a sanctioning proceeding anyway — because the duty to notify has content and a channel defined by regulation, and neither is the controller's to choose.
The hardware wallet maker has confirmed the exposure of names, phone numbers and home addresses belonging to 13,689 customers, Brazilians among them. The official guidance talks about phishing. The data that leaked is useful for something else — and Brazil ranks among the four countries with the most physical attacks on crypto holders since 2023.
The standard that classifies authenticators puts SMS codes and app codes in the same bucket: neither one holds up against phishing. The attack that dominates today doesn't break the code — it lets you type it correctly and keeps the result.
An operation by the Civil Police of Pernambuco lays bare what prevention guides rarely show: the fake investment scheme isn't a lone fraudster improvising. It's a structure with an office, a script and a monthly target.
What determines whether a case has anywhere to go is rarely what happens the following week. It's what gets preserved — or unwittingly destroyed — in the first hours, by someone who doesn't yet know they'll need it.
The scam doesn't convince the victim all at once. It walks them through six stages, each designed to make the next one seem reasonable. Understanding the funnel is what makes it possible to interrupt before the last stage.