{"id":4156,"date":"2025-05-23T02:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/doj-charges-12-more-in-263-million-crypto-fraud-takedown-where-money-was-hidden-in-squishmallow-stuffed-animals\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T02:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:03:28","slug":"doj-charges-12-more-in-263-million-crypto-fraud-takedown-where-money-was-hidden-in-squishmallow-stuffed-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/doj-charges-12-more-in-263-million-crypto-fraud-takedown-where-money-was-hidden-in-squishmallow-stuffed-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ charges 12 more in $263 million crypto fraud takedown where money was hidden in squishmallow stuffed animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    DOJ charges 12 more in $263 million crypto fraud takedown where money was hidden in squishmallow stuffed animals<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Crypto fraud meets cuddly toys!<\/p>\n<p>US authorities have charged a group accused of stealing $263 million in cryptocurrency &#8211; and then laundering the cash by stuffing it into Squishmallows.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/doj-charges-12-263-million-crypto-fraud-takedown-where-money-hidden-squishmallow-stuffed-animals\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOJ charges 12 more in $263 million crypto fraud takedown where money was hidden in squishmallow stuffed animals Crypto fraud meets cuddly toys! US authorities have charged a group accused of stealing $263 million in cryptocurrency &#8211; and then laundering the cash by stuffing it into Squishmallows. Read more in my article on the Hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,54,155,164,388],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-social-engineering","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}