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On a specialized forum, an unidentified hacker is selling access to the law enforcement request control panel for the crypto exchange Binance. The price is set at $10,000, payable in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) or Monero (XMR). The validity of this offer has been verified by the analysts at Hudson Rock. 
Ukraine's law enforcement officers are leveling up with cryptocurrency training, thanks to a collaboration between tax authorities from the US, UK, and Netherlands. This initiative aims to boost their skills in handling decentralized assets, detecting illicit transactions, and curbing tax and sanctions evasion. “Knowledge sharing is one of the priorities within these international partnerships and can contribute to greater know-how to counter cybercrime,” said the director general of the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service. 
Atomic Wallet has landed in legal hot waters. This development comes after a hacking event that wiped out more than $100 million.
The claimants assert that the developers neither informed the users about the security vulnerability nor contacted law enforcement after the breach.
Many prosperous investors, some having affiliations with Russia, are included in the court case. 
Despite being over 100 days into the writers strike, the worries about studios using generative artificial intelligence to entirely write scripts have not come to fruition.
The decision came in response to a challenge by Stephen Thaler, CEO of Imagination Engines, who sought to register AI-generated works.
The judge upheld the U.S. Copyright Office’s stance that copyright protection only extends to works created by humans, not AI.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell has emphasized that copyright law has “never stretched so far” to “protect works generated by new forms of technology operating absent any guiding human hand.” 
Offering a deal of $10 million, Justin Sun has reached out to the hacker behind the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange breach to recover the stolen funds. Sun asserts that the hacker's identity is no secret, with international law enforcement ready to intervene following a formal complaint from the exchange. 
Yesterday, the Cyvers team raised alarms over a questionable HTX transaction. Their concerns grew when there was no communication in return.
Fast forward to today, the damage is clear: 5,000 ETH, or $7.9 million, is gone, snatched by a hacker.
The HTX team has proposed a 5% reward for the return of the funds. Should the hacker decline, they plan to engage law enforcement.
"Compared to the $3 billion in assets held by Huobi HTX users, $8 million is a small number. This is only equivalent to two weeks of revenue from the HTX platform," Justin Sun stated in X.
The underlying issue behind the breach has been eliminated, he adds, and the exchange will reimburse the lost amount. 
A spokesperson for the university stated that they have been in talks with FTX debtor attorneys to facilitate the full return of the donated funds. It’s worth noting that Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents have a longstanding association with Stanford Law School, serving as legal scholars and professors there. The donations in question, totaling approximately $5.5 million, were made by FTX-related entities between November 2021 and May 2022 for pandemic-related prevention and research. 
The Central African Republic (CAR) is expanding its Sango blockchain initiative to include the tokenization of land and natural resources. Recently, the CAR National Assembly passed a law, receiving unanimous approval, that facilitates online business visa applications and simplifies the process for both locals and foreigners to establish businesses in sectors like real estate, agriculture, and forestry. This move follows CAR's earlier efforts in the crypto space, including the launch of Project Sango in May 2022 and its brief adoption of Bitcoin as a national currency. 
Ripple contends that there is no justification for the SEC to appeal its partial loss while the case remains unresolved.
Ripple’s legal team has presented three primary arguments in response to the SEC’s appeal request:
Аn appeal requires a pure question of law and that the SEC’s request raises no new legal issues that need to be reviewed.
SEC’s argument that the court ruled incorrectly on the matter is not sufficient.
An immediate appeal will not advance the termination litigation proceedings.