In today's crypto news, an elderly US citizen has fallen victim to a $330 million Bitcoin social engineering attack, marking it as the fifth-largest crypto hack so far. The attacker employed advanced social engineering tactics to access the victim's wallet, which held over 3,000 BTC since 2017. After the breach, the stolen Bitcoin was quickly laundered using a method known as a peel chain. In other news, a US federal court judge ruled that the Treasury Department's sanctions against Tornado Cash were unlawful, preventing any further sanctions on the protocol. The case arose after Tornado Cash was accused of facilitating money laundering for the North Korean Lazarus Group. Furthermore, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed decisions on proposed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) involving Dogecoin and XRP, extending the ruling deadline until June. Dogecoin currently has a market capitalization of approximately $26 billion while XRP's market cap stands around $133 billion as of late April 2025.

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